Apparently Harriet miers was unavailable.

Thanks AU, I was just wondering if Gore had turned into a persona non grata among Democrats.

Has Al Gore spoken at this convention? If not is he going to?

PS

A bottle of cream sherry is calling my name, adios.

Bob, that photo was taken after the upper part had collapsed several floors. And just because the upper portion has a little rotation doesn't mean that most of its energy isn't directed downward.

Why? what was wrong with the rest of the building?

Nothing, other than there was nothing to support the weight of the collapsed floors above, once the collapse started the undamaged floors were not strong enough to stop it.

Bob, I was just pointing out that the collapse is not behaving as a controlled demolition would presumably behave (collapsed in on itself all nice and neat like).

In that pic the upper portion has already fallen several stories and even if it did "slide" off, the whole building was coming down at that point.

The south tower doesn't fall straight down. Here's a small pic:

That still fails to explain a 9 second freefall into it's own footprint.

Can we at least put this 9 second, 6.6 second collapse bullshit to rest?

13.5 seconds before the upper portion of WTC7 disappeared into a dust cloud (end of the collapse) the east penthouse started moving downward and 3 sec. before that there was smoke and dust pushing across W. Broadway away from WTC7. 16.5 sec.

Chris, I think they may be listening to us because I just clicked on it again, after your post, and it came right up. It took over an hour to download the pdf files from the NIST site yesterday, and no video files would work.

So Bob, what happened? What caused column 79 to fail? The report proves, to my satisfaction, that explosives were not used; there were no blown out windows.

What's your theory?

P.S.

Chris, my internet connection is pretty strong but the NIST site is crippled or crippling.

Cannot download.

...even though it was supposedly weaker on one side.

Bob, are you referring to the damage caused by falling debris from the WTC1 collapse (West side) or the failure of column 79 (East side)?

The buildings (all of them) were brought down by demolition.

It's just a guess Goatman, but I'd say he disagrees with the conclusions found in Appendix D: Hypothetical Blast Scenarios.

I'm up to chapter 5 and I'll say it's definitely worth looking at.