Slide #14 - A "Typical" Controlled Demolition

Gage's Folly

In this slide, Gage presents what he calls "a typical controlled demolitions with explosives."

"With Explosives." It's incredible to me that he titles this as such. As I've demonstrated before, Gage cut the explosions out of his looping clip!

Another video of this collapse, complete with missing explosions.

The video from YouTube clearly has explosions on the sound as the building begins to fall. Yet Gage has cut these explosions out and moved the soundtrack up to mask this. Controlled demolitions don't do this to soundtracks! People do.

This is the second time he's used his mangled clip to deceive. Or is that more? He is using it to condition you to how a controlled demolition is "supposed" to sound. So every time the clip loops, he is deceiving you again.

"High Rise"

Gage calls this 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 these 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?

And listen to them in that YouTube clip above! Will you hear anything like that in the videos of the 3 World Trade Center buildings? No.

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