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Popular Science Responds To Rosie O’Dumbass

March 31, 2007 | By Sniper One |

For the Bush Derangement Crowd logic is just another set of facts that gets in the way of their lunatic accusations.

As a retired Master SGT friend of mine says: “Light to a blind man can at best be heat.”

Here are the facts of the situation…

1. Initial reports from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) misunderstood the amount of damage the 47-floor WTC7 sustained from the debris of the falling North Tower—because in early photographs, WTC7 was obscured by smoke and debris.

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2. The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center weren’t knocked down by planes—they both stood for more than a half-hour after the impacts. But the crashes destroyed support columns and ignited infernos that ultimately weakened—not melted—the steel structures until the towers could no longer support their own weights (NIST offers a primer here). Ms. O’Donnell fundamentally misstates the case with her use of the word “melting”: Evidence currently points to WTC7 also collapsing because fires weakened its ravaged steel structure.

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3. Demolition experts tell PM that wiring a building the size of WTC7 for clandestine demolition would present insurmountable logistical challenges. That issue aside, there’s a clear-cut engineering explanation for why the building fell the way it did. Trusses on the fifth and seventh floors of the building were designed to transfer loads from one set of columns to another; with the south face heavily damaged, the other columns were likely overtaxed. In engineering terms, the “progressive collapse” began on the eastern side, when weakened columns failed from the damage and fire. The entire building fell in on itself as the slumping east side dragged down the west side in a diagonal pattern. Still, damage to the Verizon Building (see p. 21 of this report), directly west of WTC7, and to Fiterman Hall (see here) directly north, show that it was hardly an orderly collapse.

Who are you going to believe? A publication that has been doing Science for decades, or Rosie O’Doughnut?

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    1. Doug Ross @ Journal on March 31, 2007 8:53

      Rosie O’Donnell: Mainstreaming Hateful Nonsense…

      Bernard Goldberg, visiting The O’Reilly Factor, distilled Rosie O’Donnell’s latest bizarre rant with an incisive turn of phrase: ‘The real danger is that they’re mainstreaming this hateful nonsense…’…

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