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By Steve Herman, Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.
The two-year Purdue University study, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, was the first to use 3-D animation to provide visual context to the attacks, said Christoph Hoffmann, a professor of computer science and one of the lead researchers on the project.

ANIMATION: Purdue researchers reconstruct the World Trade Center impact
"One thing it does point out... is the absolute essential nature of fireproofing steel structures," Hoffmann told The Associated Press. "This is something that wasn't done originally in the World Trade Center when it was built. It wasn't code at that time."
Mete Sozen, a professor of structural engineering and a lead investigator on the simulation, said Purdue researchers hope their work leads to better structural design and building codes to prevent similar collapses.
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"In the unfortunate development that we shall have to design structures to survive such events, the methods we have developed and will be developing will be of great use to designers," Sozen said.
The animation, intended in part to help engineers design safer buildings, begins with a map of lower Manhattan as it appeared on Sept. 11, 2001. The video then shows a plane slicing through several stories of the World Trade Center's north tower and follows the disintegrating plane through the interior and out the opposite side.
The report concludes that the weight of the aircraft's fuel, when ignited, produced "a flash flood of flaming liquid" that knocked out a number of structural columns within the building and removed the fireproofing insulation from other support structures, Hoffmann said.
The simulation also found that the airplane's metal skin peeled away shortly after impact and shows how the titanium jet engine shafts flew through the building like bullets.
Ayhan Irfanoglu, a Purdue professor of civil engineering, said half of the building's weight-bearing columns were concentrated at the cores of the towers.
"When that part is wiped out, the structure comes down," Irfanoglu said. "We design structures with some extra capacity to cover some uncertainties, but we never anticipate such heavy demand coming from an aircraft impact. If the columns were distributed, maybe, the fire could not take them out so easily."
A 2005 report following a three-year investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal engineering agency, recommended that cities raise fire standards for skyscrapers and develop new materials that can better protect tall buildings from fire. That analysis did not blame the collapse on the steel or design of the towers, but instead focused on the damage to the fireproofing.
Shyam Sunder, the lead NIST investigator, said he was aware of the Purdue study and called it and his own agency's study "among probably the most prominent analyses that have been conducted in the United States."
The animation is the latest project by the Purdue team to assess the structural damage from the Sept. 11 attacks. The team also studied the impact of the crash into the Pentagon.
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I have to go to bed - so I'll just fill in the responses now.

roscoedad27: HAVE ANY OF YOU BRAIN DEAD PROPAGANDA SWALLOWING ZOMBIES REALIZED YET THAT IF YOU TAKE THE LETTERS FROM PURDUE BOILERMAKERS YOU COME UP WITH THE WORDS "Bim Laker". Bim Laker was the CIA code name given to the afghani basketball 1983 failed draft prospect Osama "LazyLegs" Bin Laden.
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WAKE UP AND SMELL WHAT RON PAUL IS COOKIN


OMNI: I don't know why I bother responding to you people, but in the interest of proving the accepted psychological premise that insanity is the repetition of a task while expecting a different result, I'll now type out enough rebuttal to give carpal tunnel to a 1000 monkeys without any hope of creating the great novel. "It was the blurst of times???"


Willie: Add this to the list of other non conspiracy fringe people who live in reality.


JoeC: (CURRENTLY ON CHAG)


Levistep: Were any of these researchers Jewish?


BBlight: It was 6 years ago. Stop living in the past. When I was a kid we used to sweep shit like murdered presidents under the rug. Why can't you people just get a job, pay your taxes, support the damn AARP and stay off my fucking lawn?


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I'll get back to you guys


Cincy: You bitches don't even understand that your pimps have been whoring you bitches out to other pimps and now the bitches that you've been pimping have been.....


Judge: I'm sure both sides have been just as guilty here


VariousPosters: As long as no interracial scientific partnerships were formed then I think this study should be considered acceptable as an explanation.
 

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I'm tending towards the demolition charges theory after an in depth investigation.

I built an Airfix 747 and the WTC towers from paper-maché, all to scale.
Now when I threw my 747 model at those WTCs it just bounced straight off !

So there's something the Government isn't telling me.
 

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I'm also not so sure Xenu dun it anymore.

Zog the Invincible may have been involved.
 

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how bout building 7 vegas?...of course the establishment will try to rationalize the events it's up to us to see thru it and hang whoever is responsible by a tree.
 

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USA TODAY
By Steve Herman, Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight..............................................................................

Will you have a CAMEL with that ??

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Will you have a CAMEL with that ??

:puke1:

Eventually, science proved cigarette smoking was bad for you. Just as science has proven the events of 9/11 were not an inside job. The Purdue study just happens to be the most recent.

With both cigarette smoking and the events of 9/11, an extreme fringe created their own science, ignored the weight of the evidence and spread lies throughout the community. Cigarette ads and inaccurate /incomplete science in the 50's, conspiracy fringe websites and incomplete/inaccurate science today.

I do see a parallel between cigarette smoking then & 9/11 today TBGN, now go have yourself a nice cigarette break. While doing so, don't forget to shop for those great land deals in the Pacific Northwest, a/k/a Idaho.

:smoker2:
 

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Curse that basehead and his quick to the keyboard posts! I've grilled him numerous times on being late the table, so I'll take my lumps here unless you just want to RR this thread.


Its not the first or last time you guys have engaged in hypocrisy.

BTW....no paragraph spacing,tsk stk tsk.
 

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I have to go to bed - so I'll just fill in the responses now.

roscoedad27: HAVE ANY OF YOU BRAIN DEAD PROPAGANDA SWALLOWING ZOMBIES REALIZED YET THAT IF YOU TAKE THE LETTERS FROM PURDUE BOILERMAKERS YOU COME UP WITH THE WORDS "Bim Laker". Bim Laker was the CIA code name given to the afghani basketball 1983 failed draft prospect Osama "LazyLegs" Bin Laden.
:youmad: :youmad: :youmad: :youmad:
WAKE UP AND SMELL WHAT RON PAUL IS COOKIN


OMNI: I don't know why I bother responding to you people, but in the interest of proving the accepted psychological premise that insanity is the repetition of a task while expecting a different result, I'll now type out enough rebuttal to give carpal tunnel to a 1000 monkeys without any hope of creating the great novel. "It was the blurst of times???"


Willie: Add this to the list of other non conspiracy fringe people who live in reality.


JoeC: (CURRENTLY ON CHAG)


Levistep: Were any of these researchers Jewish?


BBlight: It was 6 years ago. Stop living in the past. When I was a kid we used to sweep shit like murdered presidents under the rug. Why can't you people just get a job, pay your taxes, support the damn AARP and stay off my fucking lawn?


Basehead: Received: from mxoutps1.us.army.mil (mxoutps1.us.army.mil [143.69.xxx.xx])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d38si2624xxxxand.2007.xx;
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:41:39 -0800 (PST)
I'll get back to you guys


Cincy: You bitches don't even understand that your pimps have been whoring you bitches out to other pimps and now the bitches that you've been pimping have been.....


Judge: I'm sure both sides have been just as guilty here


VariousPosters: As long as no interracial scientific partnerships were formed then I think this study should be considered acceptable as an explanation.


I like it :banger:

but how about a few more shots at the conspiracy fringe loonies. We need more balance.

:toast:
 

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I'm tending towards the demolition charges theory after an in depth investigation.

I built an Airfix 747 and the WTC towers from paper-maché, all to scale.
Now when I threw my 747 model at those WTCs it just bounced straight off !

So there's something the Government isn't telling me.


Uh oh eek, are you citing Dr Stephen Jones too?
 

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Eventually, science proved cigarette smoking was bad for you. Just as science has proven the events of 9/11 were not an inside job. The Purdue study just happens to be the most recent.

With both cigarette smoking and the events of 9/11, an extreme fringe created their own science, ignored the weight of the evidence and spread lies throughout the community. Cigarette ads and inaccurate /incomplete science in the 50's, conspiracy fringe websites and incomplete/inaccurate science today.

I do see a parallel between cigarette smoking then & 9/11 today TBGN, now go have yourself a nice cigarette break. While doing so, don't forget to shop for those great land deals in the Pacific Northwest, a/k/a Idaho.

:smoker2:

hey goofy you do know that these purdue findings have been debunked in regards to it's prevelence to the truth movement don't you?
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/200607animation.htm
 

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hey goofy you do know that these purdue findings have been debunked in regards to it's prevelence to the truth movement don't you?
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/200607animation.htm


You crack me up. Go pick on somebody your own size.

Riddle me this old not so wise one, how can you mock official transcripts when you cite nothing but looney left conspiracy fringe wacko sites. Do you even sense a tad bit of hypocracy?

Try some original docs, original thoughts, primary sources. As in, develop a thought or a sentence on your own.

Your sources are a joke.:lolBIG:
 

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With both cigarette smoking and the events of 9/11, an extreme fringe created their own science, ignored the weight of the evidence and spread lies throughout the community. Cigarette ads and inaccurate /incomplete science in the 50's, conspiracy fringe websites and incomplete/inaccurate science today.

Which one is it ?

Innacurate/ incomplete or LIES ??

Make up your mind.
 

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and, your truth movement as been debunked, 1000x over. Y'all just a tad bit slow.

Real science baby, bring it on.

:dancefool

And your debunking has been debunked a million times already, you would have realised it if you werent living on mars.

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And your debunking has been debunked a million times already, you would have realised it if you werent living on mars.

:thumbsup:

or commiting the sin of worshipping idols..the american flag in this case.
 

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You Cant Handle The Truth So You Cling To Corrupt Government (indirectly) Funded Studies (witness The Popular Mechanics Puff Piece Written By A Relative Of Michael Chertoff!) To Prove Your Irrational Theories Without Regard To The Laws Of Physics. You Are The Dumbest, Most Gullible, Sorry Ass Human Beings On The Face Of The Earth.
 

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