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  • As federal agency declares ‘new phenomenon’ downed WTC 7, activists cry foul

    Stephen C. Webster
    Raw Story
    Friday, Aug 22, 2008

    According to a federal agency report released Thursday, a “new phenomenon” known as thermal expansion was directly responsible for the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center 7 on Sept. 11, 2001.

    This study, posed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology — a federal scientific agency which promotes technical industrial standards — marks the first ‘official’ government theory on the collapse.

    The building’s demise occurred some seven hours after the twin towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, and has been the source of numerous conspiracy theories key to the “9/11 Truth” movement, most of which argue that the symmetrical, seven-second collapse was brought about by a controlled demolition.

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    Dr. Shyam Sunder, director of Institute’s building and fire research laboratory, oversaw the government’s three-year research efforts. The report aims to disprove the controlled demolition argument.

    However, Richard Gage, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and a member of the American Institute of Architects, doesn’t believe a word of the theory.

    His group, which has swelled to over 400 architectural and engineering professionals, immediately responded to the Institute’s claim in a press conference.

    “Tons of [molten metal] was found 21 days after the attack,” said Gage in an interview with a Vancouver, Canada television station. “Steel doesn’t begin to melt until 2,700 degrees, which is much hotter than what these fires could have caused.”

    “There are holes in this story that you can drive a truck through,” Gage added during the press conference. His group asserts that thermite, a steel cutting agent, was used to bring the building down.

    Dr. Sunder disagreed.

    “We conducted the study without bias, without interference from anyone,” said Dr. Sunder. “We have only one single-minded goal in this effort.”

    While the Institute said it considered the possibility of a controlled demolition taking place at WTC 7, the notion was dismissed due to the absence of any recordings of an explosion sound.

    Thermite, however, does not make an explosion sound. And while this was raised to Dr. Sunder in the media’s Q&A session, he dismissed it as impossible.

    “FEMA found it,” said Gage. “Dr. Steven Jones found it, in the dust that landed in the entire area of lower Manhattan. And he finds it in the chunks of previously molten metal [from the towers].”

    Specifically, in Appendix C of its World Trade Center Building Performance Study, FEMA claimed:

    Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. A liquid eutectic mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel… The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.

    Yet, no study of the mysterious sulfur or melted steel was included in the NIST report.

    After New York City officials cut off the water main to the tower Sept. 11, 2001, the building’s sprinkler system was unable to function, Dr. Sunder said. This allowed fires across 10 floors to burn uncontrolled for nearly seven hours.

    The Institute asserts that due to the lack of water supply, an “extraordinary event” occurred, and for the first time ever, steel expanding due to heat from the flames caused columns to separate from structural concrete. Column 79 was the first to fail, according to the report, which brought about a quick succession of failures in adjoining columns.

    “Thermal expansion of long-span floor systems” was a critical element in the collapse, said Dr. Sunder. The “kink” seen in the building’s penthouse portion in video of the collapse was in-line with the columns which failed first.

    “If water had been available, it is likely that sprinklers would have operated and the building may still be here today,” he said.

    “It looks like they want to wrap-up this investigation and blame [the collapse] on normal office fires,” said Gage during counter-conference.

    WTC 7’s structural system is in “widespread use” in other buildings, he added, insisting that such effects may also be present elsewhere. The Institute’s report also includes recommendations for the strengthening of building codes to avoid future thermal expansion-driven collapses.

    The collapse of WTC 7 is “no longer a mystery,” Dr. Sunder claimed.

    The Institute’s full report is available at wtc.nist.gov.

    Further details from the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth press conference are forthcoming.

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    34 Responses to “As federal agency declares ‘new phenomenon’ downed WTC 7, activists cry foul”

    1. Paulson is an idiot Says:

      Fantastic explanation.

      So what melted the steel and blew up the basement? They haven’t quite gotten to those two things yet. I can’t wait until they do.

      Man, I feel MUCH better.

      Doesn’t it feel good to know that a professional association has completed 10% of an official explanation for the greatest national disaster of all time.

      Man it REALLY would have helped if they would have saved just a couple pieces of the building to make the investigation easier. Oh well, its just bad luck that they forgot to save any.

      I’m curious why “thermal expansion” has never done anything like this to all the hundreds of other buildings that have caught on fire?
      No worries, we’ll probably find out in the next issue of Popular Science.

      I love pop-culture science, ain’t it fun!? Its popular AND its “science”. Its like Sci-Fi but better because its for the masses and its uhh… real.

    2. Truth Says:

      They Lie, They Lie, They Lie! Only a idiot would believe this “official Story”…..

    3. Truth Says:

      yeah they expect us to believe “thermal expansion” done this, than expanding steel would have just gone limp, and not have been cut off at an angle, like thermite would have done…It pisses me off to know how our government operates, they don’t care about us, they just want us for their profits, and this bad habit will never break, until we stand up…. One day the people will rise against this tyranny, and evil system.
      GOD BLESS EARTH

    4. Truthseeker Says:

      yeah they expect us to believe “thermal expansion” done this, than expanding steel would have just gone limp, and not have been cut off at an angle, like thermite would have done…It pisses me off to know how our government operates, they don’t care about us, they just want us for their profits, and this bad habit will never break, until we stand up…. One day the people will rise against this tyranny, and evil system.
      GOD BLESS EARTH

    5. Matt Says:

      And after the report, Dr. Sunder went back to his day job, where he sells bridges for a dollar to random folk on the streets…

      They should have stuck with their original story… you know… “Duuuuhhh, what’s a ‘building 7′? I’ve never heard of that.” Even though it’s insulting, you gotta laugh at their pathetic attempt at an explanation. ‘New phenomenon’… That is classic. We can file this one with Santa Clause, Jesus, the Tooth Fairy, and the stork who delivers babies.

    6. Expat in Poland Says:

      Do they really expect us to believe this load of donkey dung?
      I’ve seen more believable stories in sci-fi films. I’ll be interested to see how many professionals eat up this ‘explination’ and set about re-designing buildings to prevent this fiction from happening in other structures.
      They probably won’t. Too much Flouride in the water.

    7. Gianna Says:

      wow.. our “gov” must have complete faith in their skills to dumb down of america . to think for a second that.. this is even close to believable is a Hoot..

      Sorry but I know longer believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause.. but atleast they had a better thought out story than this..

      Why dont they just slap some helmets on us,, and send us on the special bus to be shipped to never never land ….. this report should infuriate the masses !!… It is a complete attack on America’s intelligence

    8. Craig Says:

      Right-it took them 7 years to respond to Building 7 crumbling to dust.

      The bottom line is no-one can seriously believe this. Their biggest supporters are the people that don’t care either way about 911. That’s sad.

      911=inside job. Cover it up all you want, federal government. You have no credibility, we can’t believe anything that comes from the federal govt.

    9. John N Says:

      For many years buildings never had sprinkler systems. This only became a part of building code recently when one considers how long high-rise buildings have been around. How come buildings did not collapse from fire before sprinkler systems became the law? Once again the governments’ lies are easily dismissed. We all know that our government murdered 3000 of our citizens so that they could start a war that is now making a handful of the richest people in the world even richer.
      Only a revolution can resolve this problem and if we don’t revolt soon they fully intend to murder million with a nuclear attack on the citizens to further their terrorist story so that they can continue to strip us of our rights. The same people financing the terrorists are financing the fight against terrorism.

    10. Door32 Says:

      How do they force a scientist to sit in front of the world and make such an unscientific statement. Is he part of it or is he or his family under threat to make him do so. Why are the Professional Institutes for engineering or for steel frame design and construction not coming out with statements declaring this ridiculous?

    11. William Rausch Says:

      Can this new (meaning, not previously observed) phenomenon be recreated under laboratory conditions? If not, how does this square with the scientific method, which requires that hypotheses be verified by experiments which independent investigators can conduct themselves with substantively similar results? Underwriters Laboratories’ experiments, as reported by Kevin Ryan (and by videotaped documentation) seem to produce results unsupportive of NIST’s conclusions as applied to 1 and 2 WTC, in that the observed bowing of structural elements was less than that required by the government’s explanation of the collapses by a full order of magnitude (3 to 4 inches observed, as opposed to the 43 inches required). And how soon are US building codes to be updated to require much more expensive construction standards in accordance with the new NIST report?

    12. laurie Says:

      Are we forgetting the explosios that were heard in the building which took out the starcases by the people trapped on the 8th floor??

      Are we forgetting the bodies in the lobbies rescue workers were telling the trapped not to look at as they stepped over them hours before any collapse???

    13. Ben Says:

      Not that i buy one word of this new NIST bullshit, but EVEN IF it happened like they say, if the fires only burned on 10 floors, how does the building come down perfectly symmetrically?

    14. DudeofMan Says:

      Notice how close “Thermal Expansion” is to “Thermite Explosion”.
      Close to the real truth but no cigar.

    15. MagnusXO Says:

      “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time, but you can fool most people most of the time, and those are the ones you have to concentrate on.”

      -George H.W. Bush

      This report isnt for the thinkers…they know we know! This report is for the sleepers, who outnumber us 4 to 1.

    16. MagnusXO Says:

      “When we make-believe together, belief is what we make.”

      -anonymous

    17. AlphaOmega Says:

      What “new phenomenon” did NIST suggest downed WTC7??

    18. Tim in South Dakota Says:

      They must think we will believe anything they say. The sad part is that most Americans probably do. SAD SAD SAD
      Have any of you people in here heard anything about computers giving off toxic fumes? I found this page with videos and stuff about it. http://www.rawair.net. Has anyone else heard of this stuff before?

    19. Matt Says:

      ……..oh okay! Phew! I thought it was some kind of conspiracy that made the tower collapse like that.

      I feel so much better now!

      …….now where is my prozac and MTV.

    20. CriticalReview Says:

      It is so obvious that our government at nearly every level is involved in the false flag operation of 9/11. Those in power will never tell the truth about what they have done. It is up to us to expose their lies.

    21. Josiah Says:

      If 9-11 Truth is sooo popular and widespread, how come you have soooo few active members? Hmmmm???

      Because the American people don’t care about your pathetic theories. Get used to it.

    22. catchtweny2 Says:

      The fact that seem to be trying to keep it going even though they say “case closed” is just in time for the 7th anniversary of 9/11, provacoteurs will be appropriatly placed I imagine and the violence will be blamed on the 9/11 truthers being angry about the NIST report.
      What can we expect but more lies from NIST though, really ?
      Anyone with a face mask on needs pointing out, all 9/11 truthers must be calm and not aggresive on the march.

      NO TO THE NWO

      NWOR

      Peace

      catchtwenty2 UK

    23. John Says:

      Was Jason Bermas really paid by the billionaire Simon family to make Loose Change and cover up the faces of the criminals responsible for 9/11 for SEVEN YEARS?

      Your first clue may be the fact that Jason Bermas is BANNING people for dropping this link:

      http://www.911MissingLinks.com

      Missing Links is the FIRST movie to show you the faces of the criminals responsible for 9/11.

    24. Zammy Says:

      It’s the “phenomenon” of false flag terrorism

    25. RayB Says:

      As William Rausch (above) stated, this new phenomenon has to be reproducible and measured in a lab before it can be used to explain everything. But wait, they had a model!!! Yep, that must be the same model they used to show that global warming was due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

      In any case, better be careful when you open your bbq. You might get a sudden and uncontrolled thermal expansion of the grill and it might just jump out in your face…

    26. Rod Says:

      Hey Josiah,
      Pull your head out of your Ass and wake the fuck up. It’s people like you, un-informed, stupid and uninvolved, is what Big Brother is counting on. I hope they come and get you first, ASSHOLE!

    27. Larry Says:

      Josiah,

      Just stay on the yellow brick road and don’t ever take off your rose colored glasses. If you do you might see that the world is much different that you have been duped into believing.

    28. traitors in the gov Says:

      The ‘new phenomenon’ is traitors in the government.

    29. traitors in the gov Says:

      I saw the 9/11 missing links movie and it makes sense. The cabala of individuals in that film who are responsible for the attacks ought to be attacked. Dual citizenship makes them two-faced, with loyalties divided. Clearly, they are not loyal to us.

    30. Lucie Says:

      There’s a recent post on this over at One More Promethean

      http://www.onemorepromethean.com/

    31. Heteon Says:

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    32. Jack Pontiac Says:

      Why is it they think we are so stupid? I just(barely managed)to get insurance for a 1991 Isuzu Elf 2 Ton Diesel Pickup.I screwed up when they asked me if there were any’modifications’to the truck.I told them’no’but I am going to install a kit to burn USED VEGTABLE OIL to save big$$$.They phoned back and said’the underwriter said VEGOIL is to FLAMMABLE and we can’t insure you’!

      Like OK,most vehicles on the road are powered by a very explosive fuel,GASOLINE! Next is vehicles powered by Diesel,very tame compared to gasoline. VEGOIL does not even rate! It has to heated before it enters to engine. If you spill it on the ground,all the bugs take care of it.

      Time to do something about the NWO! 1st on the list is Politicians.2nd on list is Mainstream Media.3rd on the list are Lawyers,etc,etc!

      I wonder if you can MELT STEEL with VEGOIL?

    33. cbruce Says:

      Clearly they think were are numb sheep that will believe anything that we are spoon fed. It time we take our rose colored glasses off and start to think for ourselves. It’s now or never!!!

    34. commonsense Says:

      wow you crazies are funny, shall is say you are poop da pants??? i’d say so


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