Hello everyone,
This is my first post so I won't be able to provide links, but everything is easily googleable.
As you may know, NIST has conducted detailed modeling and simulation of the WTC7 collapse. Detailed reports are available on the web, and the ANSYS and LS-DYNA models are also available on Google code under the nist-wtc7 project, except for the connection models.
Those are being withheld following section 7(d) of the US National Construction Safety Team Act (HR 4687, 2002.) Patrick Gallagher, who was (and may still be) NIST Director signed a "Finding Regarding Public Safety Information" where he explains that those details might jeopardize public safety. A copy of this is available on the web.
CTs believe that NIST won't release the full model because the collapse is "not natural" and a collapse sequence cannot be produced with an accurate model. Thus NIST is basically fueling CT flames.
Now it is easy to imagine that providing the full simulation model of WTC7, a building that underwent progressive collapse, might allow would-be terrorists (or arsonists or other organized crime) to optimize the placement of destructive devices to bring down a building or to otherwise select buildings having adequate weaknesses.
However CTs argue that such information is already "readily available in controlled demolition courses" and/or wouldn't help would be terrorists. In other words they claim that the concern about public safety is bogus.
So I have two questions:
1. How legitimate is the concern about public safety? Can it be substantiated, maybe by giving an example where such data was used by terrorists?
2. As the NIST FOIA refusal seems to be one of the last things the CTs cling to (after the nanothermite fiasco), and as conspiracy theories push maladjusted individuals and extremist groups to commit acts of violence (as we have seen in the Vegas shootings), wouldn't it be better to just release the data to put a halt to the WTC7 speculation?
This is my first post so I won't be able to provide links, but everything is easily googleable.
As you may know, NIST has conducted detailed modeling and simulation of the WTC7 collapse. Detailed reports are available on the web, and the ANSYS and LS-DYNA models are also available on Google code under the nist-wtc7 project, except for the connection models.
Those are being withheld following section 7(d) of the US National Construction Safety Team Act (HR 4687, 2002.) Patrick Gallagher, who was (and may still be) NIST Director signed a "Finding Regarding Public Safety Information" where he explains that those details might jeopardize public safety. A copy of this is available on the web.
CTs believe that NIST won't release the full model because the collapse is "not natural" and a collapse sequence cannot be produced with an accurate model. Thus NIST is basically fueling CT flames.
Now it is easy to imagine that providing the full simulation model of WTC7, a building that underwent progressive collapse, might allow would-be terrorists (or arsonists or other organized crime) to optimize the placement of destructive devices to bring down a building or to otherwise select buildings having adequate weaknesses.
However CTs argue that such information is already "readily available in controlled demolition courses" and/or wouldn't help would be terrorists. In other words they claim that the concern about public safety is bogus.
So I have two questions:
1. How legitimate is the concern about public safety? Can it be substantiated, maybe by giving an example where such data was used by terrorists?
2. As the NIST FOIA refusal seems to be one of the last things the CTs cling to (after the nanothermite fiasco), and as conspiracy theories push maladjusted individuals and extremist groups to commit acts of violence (as we have seen in the Vegas shootings), wouldn't it be better to just release the data to put a halt to the WTC7 speculation?
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