sortie

Please don't call me crazy and stuff like that over my theory.

I just thought of all the reasons the WTC would fall down and I thought this was possible. I said possible! I didn't say it was true!


Ok: here it is;

I call it The Ringing Bell Theory

CASE:

- Fact - the bigger the bell the louder and the LONGER the ring.

- Take a very good pear shaped bell like the liberty bell.

- Now dip it in concrete and let it harden with about 1 inch thick concrete on it.

- Now wack it with a metal basballl bat with a quick 2000LB force and stand back

- Result: The initial impact will send some concrete flying but most of it will remain and inside the concrete the bell will begin to Ring (vibrate).

Under regular conditions the ringing of the bell will release the energy as it vibrates in the air. But when compressed in the concrete it's energy will take longer to wane since it can't move as much which will produce a longer but not louder ring.

Eventually the ringing bell will begain to weaken the concrete enclosing it by making small cracks inside. The cracks will be evenly distributed because that's how a ring dissapates. Then once the cracks become deep enough they will all give way at once and the entire concrete encloser will collapse.
This may be 1 second, 2 seconds, 30 seconds or even 2 minutes after you first struck the bell.


Conclusion

The WTC was a structure that already swayed about 80 feet(40 in one direction) just from the wind at the top. The planes hit the building with enough force to cause the steal structure inside it to "ring". That combined with the fact the the building then probably began to sway 120 feet eventually weakened it's structure until it fell.


Before somebody says "I didn't see the building swaying"...
It moves too slow to notice like you don't notice the earth moving. And the biggest sway is of course at the top.

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StickyGreen

Interesting. I was watching the "as it happened" show on MSNBC tonight and right after the first plane hit they were discussing whether or not the buildings were leaning or not, and it looked like they were leaning...

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D

I'm glad this is your official theory.

Much better than your unofficial ones.

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sortie

I used to live in New York and went to the WTC many times.
Actually went their every day when I live in Jersey City and worked in down town NY. The train from JC ends at WTC and that's where I got off to walk to work.

The WTC, as most sky scrapers, was actually moving all the time from the wind at high altitudes. It was shocking for me to learn the WTC shited as far as 80 feet during a typical day.

People who have never been to the WTC really have no idea of the magnitude of the buildings. Seeing it afar or on TV is a joke.
Fact, if you had never been to the world trade center then you have never seen anything in the world that fucking big.
There is nothing on earth that I could compare it to.
Maybe the grand cayon, but I never been there so can't compare.

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dav3

That makes sense. I wonder if that is the case though.

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sortie

What? I never had any unofficial ones. If so, please ignore.

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sortie

I thought about it for a long time when I started hearing the conspiracy theories and this was the best I could think of.

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SmokeyTheBear

cept wouldnt it be like hitting a bell with a pebble. ?

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sortie

If a 485 ton bullet traveling at 600 miles an hours is a pebble then you got me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-8

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Extreme John

very interesting and even if not the case it's still a pretty bad ass theory

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pocketkangaroo

I think people fail to realize how much these buildings sway on a windy day. I worked in a skyscraper for a few years and you could tell when you had a real windy day.

sortie

Exactly, now add a 400 ton 600mph wack to the wind and it's going to rock and roll until it finally breaks apart.

A much shorter building would have survived better.

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DaddyHalbucks

The initial slam of the plane would have setup an immense vibration, and it could have weakened the structure to the point of near failure.

The plane was not a 747. Both planes were a 767:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_767

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sortie

Oh, I never checked the actual planes. That was just for general comparisons of what a big jet would be like.

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DaddyHalbucks

Yes, but wind sway is a relatively gentle, gradual force. Rare gale force winds are only 60 MPH.

A fully loaded 767 slamming into the building at 500 MPH is not a gradual gentle event. It is a violent sudden energy spike.

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sortie

BUTTTTTTT!!!!

My theory doesn't explain some of the other stuff that went down that day.

I think somebody ordered the destruction of at least on structure that fell that day and they had this planned way ahead of time.
For what reasons they had it planned, I don't know.
Greed is a good motive.

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StickyGreen

Not only were the planes enormous, but remember that they were flying at higher than normal speeds... probably full thrust right into the buildings. All the conspiracy theorists claim that the buildings were "meant to withstand an airplane impact" but I don't give a fuck, no building I know of is going to withstand those airplanes crashing into them like that.

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Dirty F

Dont be a fucking moron.