Slide #12 - Fell Over or Collapsed

Missorted Picture

As you can see in this slide, Gage has sorted the lower right hand picture into a different category. Gage says that each case has very distinct characteristics, but this picture seems to have demonstrated both. If that's the case, then how can Gage insist on his argument?

That argument is that there is an absolutely unique bond between end result and cause here. Different building catastrophes lead to entirely different end results, says Gage, and that's how we today are supposed to be able to know that the 3 WTC buildings were destroyed under human control.

But even Gage shows here that this desire to see building collapses like fingerprints is useless. He can't keep the pictures straight himself!

Examine The Buildings

Without exception, every one of the buildings pictured here are dwarfed by the 3 WTC buildings. The tallest here is about 15 stories (the one in the lower left). Building 7 was 47 stories high, and the twin towers, at 110 stories each, were among the largest human structures in the world.

So the forces at play in these collapses are not equivalent to the WTC buildings.

Also, look at the general structure of this buildings. They all appear to be buildings we are familiar with, small rooms with bracing throughout the building.

All three of the WTC buildings under Gage's microscope are unique designs. Their structure allowed for large amounts of floors space unimpeded by bracing. This gave tenants a lot of flexibility in how their offices were designed.

This also means that the buildings on this slide can't be fruitfully compared to how the WTC buildings fell. Different structures will fall in different ways. Because there is so much less mass involved in these collapses, the structures didn't experience anywhere near the stresses involved in the WTC collapses.

Finally, at least three of these pictures (if not all of them) depict buildings in which concrete was using as a structural element. The WTC buildings did have concrete, but it was only used for the floors. It was not used to reinforce the steel framing. Keep that in mind for future reference.

"Thick, Billowing Smoke"

A very important thing to realize about all four of these pictures: They were taken after the smoke and dust of their collapses had cleared.

Gage has this very bad habit of controlling just how you get to see the evidence. On the next slide, he's going to make the point that controlled demolition makes huge billowing clouds of smoke and dust, but he doesn't let you compare the inevitable dust clouds from these collapses.

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