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The WTC Bathtub and the Star Wars Beam Weapon
By
Judy Wood and Morgan Reynolds
October 20, 2006
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(originally posted: October 17, 2006).
If each tower was made of 100,000 tons of steel and had a total weight of 500,000 tons, then the steel is only 20% of the mass. So, if they pulverize all but the steel in the lower 22 floors, then the lower 22 floors are fairly light. I went through those numbers and found it is 22 floors of only steel that is equivalent to the Kingdome's PE. I.e. The bottom 22 floors of a 110 floor-building (where the entire 110 floors weighs 100,000-tons) has the same PE as the Kingdome.
The Kingdome does not have its weight evenly distributed. There is more density lower down, so one would expect the center of gravity to be lower than the geometric center. This would produce a lower potential energy (PE) than what I used. But, also, the WTC was heavier on the lower floors than the upper floors, which would also produce a slightly lower center of gravity as well as a slightly lower PE. So, the ratio of the WTC's-PE to the Kingdome's-PE is a reasonable approximation. [Shall I tweak some values to see what difference it makes?]
We know that each WTC tower did not slam to the earth and register as a 4.4 Mag. earthquake. We also know that a lot of the building came down as dust.
So, if we assume every floor contains 1/110th of the building's total mass, the bottom 10 floors, alone, have the same potential energy as the Kingdome. But, when the event was all over, we didn't see the lower floors stacked up like pancakes that had slammed to the ground. What happened to all the concrete and marble? What happened to all the glass? What happened to all the desks? But, what we did see was a bunch of steel beams. So, if we were only left with steel beams, how many floors worth of steel would have the same PE as the Kingdome?
The weight of all the structural steel in the building is 100,000-tons [REFERENCE needed], which is 20% of the weight of the entire building. If we assume every floor contains 1/110th of the building's total mass of structural steel, just the steel in the bottom 22 floors has the same PE as the Kingdome.
So, as an approximation, the structural steel makes up 16/110th of 1/5th the total mass of the building, or _% of the building's mass. If this mass is evenly distributed over 22 floors, it will have approximately the same potential energy as the Kingdome and could be expected to cause the equivalent of a 2.3 earthquake when it slammed to the ground. Is this reasonable, considering the debris remaining after the event?
30X log of 30 yields 1.5, which must be added to 2.3 Richter for Kingdome to yield 3.8 Richter.
(a) WTC
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Figure 25 WTC and the Kingdome with approximate PE. |
Log of 1 is zero from Twin Tower up to 20 stories, yields same earthquake.
(a) normal WTC1 floors
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(b) Kingdome
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Figure 26 Twenty floors in WTC1 footprint with PE equal to the Kingdome. (2/11th of the height and 2/11th of the mass of WTC1 would have the same PE as the Kingdome.) |
(a) normal WTC2 floors
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Figure 27 Sixteen floors in WTC2 footprint with PE equal to the Kingdome. (14.5%of the height and 14.5% of the mass of WTC2 would have the same PE as the Kingdome.) |
Transition from total pulverization to gravity fall of large solids.
(a) normal WTC2 floors
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(b) only the structural steel from these floors
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Figure 28 (a) If 15% of the mass, evenly distributed over the lower 20 floors, (15% of the building's height) or (b) 6.5% of the mass of the entire building's mass is evenly distributed over the lower 36 floors of WTC2 (32% of the building's height), it would have the same PE as the Kingdome. |
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Figure 30: Note that solid debris appears to have hit only the lower half of this 40-story building (Bankers Trust). However, the top few floors appear to have had their windows blown out. |
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Figure 31 Note the blown out windows. There appears to be no other damage to the façade of bldg. on left. |
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Figure 32: The tower is being pealed downward. Dark explosions shoot up, while white ones explode outward. Above the white explosions the building has vanished while the lower part awaits termination. |
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Figure 35: Mostly unburned paper mixes with the top half of the Twin Towers. As seen a block away, a large portion of the towers remains suspended in air. This dust looks deeper than one inch. Most of the curb looks filled in. |
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Figure 36: Note the blown out windows in the WFC. |
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Figure 38: Notice the streaming "dust" from the disintegrating building. |
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Figure 40: The same steel-dust phenomenon from another source. |
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Figure 41(a): A video clip of steel turning to steel dust. (gif) | Figure 41(b): Another video of steel turning to steel dust, although CNNs Aaron Brown calls it smoke. (avi)(mpg) |
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Figure 42: (gif) People are running past as "wheatchex" land, streaming dust, and portions of the building turn to dust. (terrorize.dk) |
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Figure 43: Why don't we see any solid parts of a falling building, here? The building appears to be dissolving into powder. |
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Figure 44 Why isn't more of the paper on fire? But, it won't be on fire for long if that fireman gets his fire hose working. |
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Figure 45: | Figure 46: It's a pretty dark place! |
Figure 47: (e): WTC 1 smoke obscures WTC 2 demolition. | Figure 48: |
Figure 49: Scooping up the building. | Figure 50: |
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Figure 51: The black building in the foreground is the Bankers Trust Building (130 Liberty Street), which has a total volume of approximately 28% of the total volume of a WTC tower. So, two WTC towers have seven times the volume of the Bankers Trust Building. (182.5ft x 182.5ft x 40floors) vs. 2x(207ft x 207ft x 110floors) |
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