Letters to the Editor
Bill Owen
Published Letters: 509 Editor's Choice: 6
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at or near
[Read the article: 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How am I "lying" about the bowling ball? I said at or near because the rates of collapse varied by several seconds for each building and the difficulty in measuring the exact time due to the smoke and debris.
This slight variation in the collapse times is meaningless as due to the resistance offered by the remaining undamaged floors, the time to collapse should have been closer to a minute in the case the two towers and roughly 30 seconds for 7 World Trade Center. The actual collapses took 12.74 seconds (North Tower) and that the duration of the south tower collapse was 10.52 seconds. 7 World Trade Center a 47 story specially hardened building of completely different construction than the towers, collapsed in its own footprint in 6.5 seconds. Given these results the US should get rid of all those bombers and buy some matches.
As I said earlier, there is, 6 years later, there is no official explanation for the collapse of 7 World Trade Center. That's a long time to explain the physics and mechanics of a fire initiated collapse of a building in the middle of New York.
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@tales
[Read the article: 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was 757 tales, not a 767, if you want to make a point get your facts straight, there is a big difference between the two planes.
You do care about the facts and not just making points right?
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@sysprog Sorry, my mistake
[Read the article: 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry the article does mention "girders" my mistake. I stand by my assertion though that this building barely resembles the WTC.
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thanks arne
[Read the article: 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are correct. I do like to get my facts straight... thanks for the correction.
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@tales
[Read the article: 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, I feel like I got hit in the face with a 797!
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Very odd picture
[Read the article: Elizabeth Edwards claims second for her husband; Clinton says it's a good night for Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is it just me, or does it Obama look a little darker than usual? Has he been OJ'ed?
http://www.fromthepen.com/condi_usatoday_scandal.html