VIDEO: Typical Controlled Demolition

This slide and this slide present a video clip. They otherwise are the same slide, and I will treat them together on this one page.

This slide has been substantially changed from its original in the September 2007 slide show. A video with a deceptively altered soundtrack was replaced with this silent video clip in the March 2008 slide show.

"High Rise"

Gage calls the Oslo building a high-rise building. He wants to use this as a comparison to the 3 WTC buildings.

Let's take a side-by-side look at the Oslo building and the WTC buildings, as close as possible. Skyscraperpage.com allows this type of comparison of scaled drawing of various buildings. The Phillips building in Oslo isn't on their pages yet, so I've included a 15-story, 46 meter building from the Netherlands with similar dimensions.

The Tribeca building here is a little wider than the Phillips building, but it's plain that this controlled demolition in no way captures the type of forces at play in the collapses of the World Trade Center buildings.

For example, Gage says that "thousands of cutter charges" are typically used to take down a building. In the Oslo demolition you're watching, a total of 30 kilograms (66 lbs) of explosives were used. (Source: Roger Holmberg, Explosives and Blasting Techniques (Taylor & Francis, 2000), p. 379)

That's the type of building that Gage is comparing to the collapses of the WTC buildings. Do you think they got thousands of usable cutter charges out of 66 pounds of explosives?

The clip used by Gage here has no soundtrack. Here's a different recording of the demolition with soundtrack intact:

YouTube: Oslo Demolition with soundtrack

That's 30 kg of explosives. Nothing like these sounds can be heard on any recording of the three WTC buildings falling. How many explosives had to be used to bring down those buildings? And yet there are no distinctive sounds of explosives at all.

This is why Gage will have to reproduce account after account later on about people "hearing" explosions in the collapses of these buildings, by the way. No actual sounds of explosive devices have ever been discovered by experts in any of the recordings of these collapses. This has been confirmed by Brent Blanchard of ImplosionWorld.com in his PDF on these collapses (pdf).

It's clear that this particular shot of the Phillips building was chosen solely because of the angle and the relative similarity to the collapse of 7 World Trade. However, the masses and the structures of these buildings should put any visual illusion of their similarity to rest.

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