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I see a great deal of analysis by people who aren't engineers, and I see stuff by engineer's out of their fields. In fact,t he hardest person to deal with as an engineer is another engineer or scientist from a different physical science. You have enough knowledge to get yourself into trouble, but you don't have the day to day experience to show you where your assumptions are wrong.
The way the buildings fell and the mechanisms behind their fall are consistent with standard processes. You don't need thermite to bring down those buildings. And, you have to consider that the WTC was built on the edge of 1970's technology which will make such buildings more vulnerable to unexpected stimuli.
But, people will believe what they want to believe when the simplest answer is not good enough. If there is a conspiracy, then one would have to give the US government a ton of credit for pulling it off and keeping it quiet. I don't have that kind of faith in our government.
