Slide #40/41 - FEMA Suggests Implosion

This slide and this slide are actually the same slide, revealed part by part during Gage's presentation. At his website, Gage shows this effect by reproducing it twice or three times with new information revealed on subsequent slides. However, I'm going to treat this slide and others like it on a single page.

The Word "Implosion"

The word "implosion" is used to refer to "a process in which objects are destroyed by collapsing in on themselves." The sheer number of things that can potentially implode rules out the necessary addition of explosives to the mix -- submarines under pressure, stars, water bubbles, etc. If it falls into itself while being destroyed, it's an implosion.

Of course FEMA doesn't mean to say that 7 World Trade was imploded with explosives. The context of the statement (FEMA BPAT Report, p. 5-31) make this quite clear:

• The behavior of 7 World Trade is being contrasted with the Twin Towers, which "showered debris in a wide radius as their frames essentially 'peeled' outward." 7 World Trade fell into itself.
• FEMA wants to confirm their failure mechanism through "structural analysis and fire modeling of fuels and anticipated temperatures and durations," and not by finding out where the implosion bombs could have gone.

Gage's serious assertion that FEMA is suggesting implosion with explosives shows just how seriously we should take him.

Why Can't Gage Source His Quotes Properly?

I haven't checked the speech yet (that's for the second go-around on these slides), but the slide clearly implies that both quotes on this page are from the FEMA report. The first is, but the second is from How Stuff Works, in an article specifically about building implosion with explosives. As I've already shown, this is not what FEMA was talking about.

Furthermore, I've also shown that 7 World Trade did not come down so perfectly into its footprint as a controlled demolition would demonstrate. Damage to the Verizon building and especially Fiterman Hall to the north demonstrate the uncontrolled nature of this collapse.

Furthermore, the debris pile of 7 World Trade only looks tidy because the north facade fell over the top of it.

Without this "shroud" covering the pile, you can easily see that it would be a twisted, tangled mound of trash that used to be a 47-story building.

By the way, that's a four lane street that the debris pile crossed to get to Fiterman Hall in the foreground. That's a mighty wide stance for a footprint.

Steel Skeleton Broken Up For Shipment

This is one of Gage's most ludicrous claims. The Towers and WTC 7 were built out of smaller, pre-fabricated pieces that were shipped to the site. When the buildings fall apart into shippable pieces, we should be surprised because...

And as the picture above clearly shows, various pieces of the facade didn't fall apart at all. Gage uses that illusion of calm to talk about tidy piles, and yet now he's saying the building was broken up in shippable pieces!

And finally, many pieces may have been shippable, but they were not ready to be recycled. This article from American Recycler tells the story of how the WTC steel was prepared for the steel mills to recycle.

Structural beams sit piled in a Metal Management yard awaiting processing. Most of the steel must be cut down into sizes that mills can handle, 5'x2' or smaller.

The pictures of workers cutting the steel into the sizes needed for the mill is enough to destroy this particular argument of Gage's. He is not going to devote a full section to this particular item in his list, so consider this another item denied.

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