FEMA: "WTC 4, 5, and 6 are eight- and nine-story steel-framed office buildings, located on the north and east sides of the WTC Plaza, that were built circa 1970. ... Because of their close proximity to WTC 1 and WTC 2, all three buildings were subjected to severe debris impact damage when the towers collapsed. as well as the fires that developed from the debris. Most of WTC 4 collapsed when impacted by the exterior column debris from WTC 2; the remaining section had a complete burnout. WTC 5 and WTC 6 were impacted by exterior column debris from WTC I that caused large sections of localized collapse and subsequent fires spread throughout most of the buildings. All three buildings also were able to resist progressive collapse, in spite of the extensive local collapses that occurred."

So WTC 4, 5, and 6 behave like every other steel-framed building in history, but somehow WTC 7 collapses like a house of cards?

Observing the collapse of 47-story WTC 7 shows it to have all of the features of an implosion engineered by controlled demolition:

-The collapse of the main structure commences suddenly (several seconds after the penthouse falls).
-The building sinks in a precisely vertical manner into its footprint.
-Puffs of dust emerge from the building's facade early in the event.
-The collapse is total, producing a rubble pile only about three stories high.
-The main structure collapses totally in under 7 seconds, only about a second slower than it would take a brick dropped from the building's roof to reach the ground in a vacuum.

But NIST never tests for any explosive residue. Instead they spend 5+ years perfecting a computer model to blame the collapse on office fires.

And skeptics are the crazy ones? If you don't regurgitate government lies, then you're a conspiracy nut?

Go back to bed America.

"One of my favorite contemporary journalists, Matt Taibbi, has done a great job examining Bachmann's candidacy in this month's Rolling Stone."



That was a great article and I agree that Taibbi is one of the best journalists working today. His pieces about the CDO fueled Wall Street implosion are among the best I've read.

Interesting quote from that article: "In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance."

Favorites of mine: http://videosift.com/video/Road-Rage-1 (which was also my first sift) and http://videosift.com/video/Building-Implosion-I-think-they-were-a-little-too-close
Others: http://videosift.com/video/I-Guess-Youll-Do and http://comedy.videosift.com/video/This-Kid-Wants-Someone-To-Play-Football-With-Him

co-host: 'too late for you; time to distance myself from your implosion'

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by chicchorea.

*isdupe
>> ^jonny:

oh man, I hate to do this, but this is a dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Landmark-Implosion-Giant-Demolition-37-secs

oh man, I hate to do this, but this is a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Landmark-Implosion-Giant-Demolition-37-secs

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by jonny. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Christ, some people here....suck. It's a silly song, and I bet Men Without Hats would be the first to admit that. How serious can one get about a song with lyrics encouraging you to act like an imbecile? Yet some obviously think this rendition is blasphemous. And then we have people here like westy who criticize a touching personal video just because the camera was a little shaky.

People - They're the worst.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
Yeah, I know right? Changing lyrics slightly equals SONG IMPLOSION!!!

Yeah, I know right? Changing lyrics slightly equals SONG IMPLOSION!!!

>> ^Fusionaut:

>> ^mxxcon:
this is not an "explosion", this is an "implosion", or controlled demolition.

sure, but 'explosion' sounds cooler than 'implosion'


and 'asplosion' sounds even more better

>> ^mxxcon:
this is not an "explosion", this is an "implosion", or controlled demolition.


sure, but 'explosion' sounds cooler than 'implosion'

this is not an "explosion", this is an "implosion", or controlled demolition.

I love implosions. There is a lot of math involved, but there is also a lot of "gut" knowledge that these guys get over the years. An implosion is still fracken crazy chaotic no mater how much math you throw at it, so there is a great degree of knowing what works on paper and what works with you have cement, explosions and gravity all really in play!

It was a scheduled demolition. Because it was no longer needed by the city of Irving. So they held a charitable competition for the implosion of the stadium.

There was another stadium built in the city of Arlington.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/nfl/04/11/texas.stadium.ap/index.html