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Have you even done this for the towers? If you had, you'd notice that the collapse times you spout are flat-out dead wrong. Also, you are STILL completely dismissing the FACT - that anyone with eyes can clearly see - that there are large pieces of debris (columns, chunks of building, etc) falling way FASTER than the towers collapse... in EVERY single video out there.
You seem to be frustrated that nobody will listen to you despite saying this stuff a million times, and it is rather funny to be honest.
Just WATCH the damn videos and take the blinders off. WATCH the debris fall twice as fast as the building collapses. Until you can do at least that much, nobody here is going to be swayed by your silly arguments.
You're serious, right??
1 - The debris falling outward from the building would of course fall faster than the collapsing structure... we're talking wind resistance vs structural resistance. In other words : Concrete slows things down more than air does.
2 - I was NOT saying that the building collapsed at free-fall speed... actually, I remember saying to take the time of free-fall (which is calculated at 9.something seconds if you do NOT take into account air resistance)
3 - Even in a controlled demolition the building does NOT fall at free-fall speed, but rather falls at free-fall - (minus) resistance... because even though explosives blow out the support structure of the building there is still resistance to collapse.
4 - I'm frustrated because even after explaining this a million times you're still missing the point.
Literally exploding outward? You mean kinda like what happens when literally incomprehensible amounts of kinetic energy gets released?
The fact still remains. After that "exploding outward" thing, the debris falls twice as fast as the building collapses. "Free-Fall-Speed-Collapse"... my a**.
Yes... And do you realize that this "literally incomprehensible amounts of kinetic energy" by definition is taken OUT OF the only force that we are meant to believe was acting on the collapse, that force being gravity (9.8m/s^2)... And with ALL that "literally incomprehensible amounts of kinetic energy" we saw a 12 second collapse time which IS about 3 seconds worth of drag compared to dropping a ball the same height in a vacuum offering 0 fall resistance.
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How in the world is that building collapsing at freefall speed, when objects falling right there next to it (actually AT freefall speed), have traveled over twice the distance? lol.
Tell me without bringing up northwoods, the pentagon, norad, bush's reaction, what cheneys breath smelled like that morning, or any of the other stuff you guys love to derail debate with. For the love of god, just this once, stick to ONE thing in each thread.
How am I supposed to get a point across when you are mixing different interpretations of free-fall. You are mixing
a) free-falling collapse of a building
b) free-falling object through air,
and then tell us that we're claiming the building collapsed at
c) free-fall where resistance = 0
what you gotta get is that
a) free-falling collapse of a building in a controlled demolition is in the 60-70% of free-fall
b) an object falling through air could see a speed of about 95-98% of free-fall (obvious exceptions excluded)
c) an object falling at 9.8m/s^2
Once you catch the subtlety of these different uses of a 'free-falling' object you'll see my point alot easier.