[iup=3516881]ianf[/iup] wrote:Yeah apparently the secret services planted bombs at the base of the tower to make a controlled explosion. Quite a remarkable feat really.
I remember there being a BBC3 program a while back about conspiracy theorists believing that 9/11 was a government plot, and the program was all about indulging their crazy ideas. It was incredible, at every step of the way these everyday morons got to chat with people with practical knowledge of all the things they suspected, and then they still disregarded everything they said.
In particular there was this one dude who was convinced that thermite was used on the support beams of one of the towers, because look at how it collapses in on itself instead of toppling over. So they bring in an engineer with decades of experience working in the field who minutely catalogues how thermite works and how controlled demolitions work, why building collapse in certain ways etc. Brilliant to see this guy, who's clearly an expert in his field, so thoroughly and clearly explain it in a digestible manner. The moron's response afterwards? "Nah I don't believe him mate, still something suspicious about it".
The ego on display in conspiracy theorists is astonishing. Such thick people thinking they actually have a single clue as to how anything works.