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Former engineer, college professor, and high school history teacher; present-day researcher, writer, and activist who believes you're never too old to question!

Sep 20, 2021, 39 tweets

"Computer enhancement shows TWO deep craters & BOTH ARE EMPTY. Had #WTC6 merely collapsed, huge debris piles would be expected in the lower levels...The only possible way this could happen is both craters were blasted from the bottom upward, expelling ALL debris up & outward"
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By Mar 2008 an analysis of photos of Bill Biggart (who died in "collapse" of #WTC1) posted at stagedterror.com shows #WTC6 was "already blackened and damaged" BEFORE #WTC2 "collapse" as evidenced by the fact "no dust or debris in the streets"
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In this photo taken from West Street looking south w/"collapse" of #WTC2 in progress, clearly something has already happened to #WTC6 (on the very left) but you can't see in this photo what #WTC6 looked like further back away from West Street
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Seconds after previous photo there's an explosion camouflaged by noise of #WTC2 collapsing that stagedterror.com believes comes from #WTC1 basement, emphasizing NO WAY is this "a cloud of dust generated by the collapse" b/c has wrong color & too much upward velocity
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The West St explosion in Biggart’s photo can also be seen in several video clips (including this one from the same perspective as the Biggart photo) archived by physicist Heinz Pommer at his website 911history.de
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Here’s the same West Street explosion from a little further away & higher up showing in addition to the vertical plume a strong horizontal offshoot racing north on West St past the burned out #WTC6

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This video clip includes two views of the West St explosion as the whitish cloud billows up & mixes with what could best be termed the blackish “base surge” (a term usually associated with volcanic or nuclear explosions) from the “collapse” of #WTC2
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So what WAS this West St explosion? Physicist Heinz Pommer in his book The Ground Zero Model (2020) concludes this was a white steam eruption suddenly shooting out of the ground quickly growing in size before mixing with the black dust cloud.
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One has to admit that the West St explosion does look a lot like the steam explosions that have happened numerous times over the years from burst underground ConEd steam pipes that run all over Manhattan.
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But physicist Heinz Pommer asserts the West St explosion was NOT caused by a ruptured steam pipe b/c this steam eruption near #WTC6 did NOT continue after the South Tower #WTC2 destruction. The steam grew within 20 seconds & then settled together with the black dust.
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So if not a ruptured steam pipe, WHAT caused the steam explosion on West St? Well, a steam explosion is caused when water or ice is superheated (e.g. by contact w/lava or molten metal) changing from liquid or solid to gas w/extreme speed, increasing dramatically in volume
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Physicist Pommer in GZM asserts the West St explosion was caused by steam generated by the detonation of a primitive nuclear reactor w/"water booster" in the granite bedrock beneath #WTC2 connected to the tower by an "open channel"
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Water from the #WTC2 basement is sucked towards the eruption center, then shoots up vertically & meets hot iron vapor in the building's core. "With sufficient quantities of water present subsequent steam explosions will occur on top."
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According to Pommer, b/c the connection between explosive charge in the bedrock & elevator shafts was not entirely sealed, the explosion pressure takes every possible way out, e.g., escaping through the "sewage water system" like the West St explosion
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One might doubt whether the West St explosion involved "the sewage water system," but it is quite interesting that the location of the eruption part way across West St in front of the North Bridge appears where the old PATH rail tube passed through the slurry wall
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If Pommer is correct, it would seem there would have been at least a few other similar steam explosions as #WTC2 was "collapsing." Indeed, is the mysterious gif that caused so much debate in the years after 9/11 one of these steam explosions?
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As to what time the gif event actually happened, by Jun 2009 even Bollyn had become convinced that it took place at the time of the “collapse” of #WTC2 and NOT when the 2nd “plane” crashed as he had previously thought.
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You can see the entire CNN broadcast at archive.org/details/911/ including the gif video that was first broadcast at 1153 EDT on 9/11 that confirms the gif happened at the time of #WTC2 "collapse." See the 8th segment at archive.org/details/911/da…
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The whitish cloud from the gif (l), although it shares all the characteristics of a major steam explosion, is NOT the West St steam explosion (r). The gif cloud rose higher & more rapidly - eventually dwarfing the 47-story #WTC7 in front of it - and is further east.
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Although I admit that spatial visualization has never been my forte, using identifiable points in the pre-9/11 Manhattan skyline I think it is possible to pinpoint at least approximately the location of the steam expulsion. Let me know if you come up w/something different!
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We can see the gif cloud centered over the right side of & behind #WTC7 on a line with the center left of One Liberty Plaza (that keeps getting hidden by the cloud) and just left of the Trump Building (40 Wall St) further back
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Drawing a straight black line connecting the 3 points, we find it crosses the slurry wall twice: 1) Vesey Street btwn WTC6 & WTC7 & 2) NW corner of #WTC5 just north of PATH rail tube. But no way could it be #WTC6 explosion as Bollyn, Hufschmid, White, et al have suggested
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EMT Patricia Ondrovic (interviewed by the WTC Task Force 11 Oct 2001) whose ambulance was parked backed up to the curb on Vesey St near alley btwn #WTC5 & #WTC6 may be an eyewitness to the gif steam explosion taking place at the NW corner of WTC5
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As Ondrovic elaborated in later Killtown interview, just a minute or so before being hit by #WTC2 dust cloud, as Ondrovic was putting stretcher in ambulance, she was knocked to the ground by an explosion that she thought came from behind her in #WTC5 lobby
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EMT Ondrovic also felt the ground shaking, "a continual loud rumbling," "debris flying from every direction and then everything being covered in the black and gray smoke" and with a lot of other First Responders she started running west on Vesey St toward the river
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As Ondrovic ran, several cars parked on the street started blowing up & catching fire that set her turnout coat & hair on fire. One car door flew off with loud bang. She tried to duck into #WTC6 lobby for cover but several "federal police" prevented anybody entering.
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EMT Ondrovic saw "a series of flashes around the ceiling of the #WTC6 lobby all going off one-by-one" sounding like light bulbs popping that she thought then & still were "timed explosives" like a Las Vegas casino being demolished
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Physicist Heinz Pommer believes the lighting effects in #WTC6 lobby that EMT Ondrovic saw and parked cars exploding and/or catching on fire suggests an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that provides further evidence of a nuclear device at work on 9/11
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And not just catching fire, EMP seems to be the cause for highly unusual (to say the least) damage to parked vehicles as far as 7 miles away from WTC!
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EMT Ondrovic's statements would seem to be at odds with Jack White who at the time was doubling down on his belief that #WTC6 craters were blast at the time of 2nd plane crash into #WTC2 at 0904 EDT
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White claimed Bill Biggart's photos confirmed that #WTC6 at the time of #WTC2 "collapse" "had already suffered major trauma to the exterior, with soot above broken windows, drapes dangling outside and a yellow glow that may be fire inside"
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By Jul 2008 Jack White posted his "smoking gun" evidence - "this recently discovered photo" showing "firemen responding to an explosion and fire" with "gaping hole" in Vesey St face of #WTC6 "before either tower fell" b/c no dust in the streets yet!
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Although in Jun 2009 Bollyn had concluded the gif explosion had taken place as #WTC2 “collapsed,” just 6 mos later Bollyn - accepting Jack White’s “smoking gun” evidence - reverted back to his 2002 position that there was a “huge explosion” that destroyed #WTC6 at 0904 EDT
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It's hard to reconcile White’s photoanalysis with EMT Ondrovic’s statements. As she was running next to #WTC6 on Vesey St, she would certainly have noticed fire trucks trying to put out a fire. Indeed she says all emergency vehicles were parked on Vesey St waiting!
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Likewise if there had been a massive explosion in #WTC6 depicted by White, Androvic would have noticed lot more than mere earth shaking & debris flying. She would have NEVER tried to run into #WTC6 lobby under that "gaping hole" "to find someplace safe" -- even if she could!
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Most tellingly, this “smoking gun” photo was NOT taken before #WTC2 collapse. The photo White uses shows a distinctive gash in the left part of the West St roofline that is NOT present in videos taken of #WTC6 at time of the West St explosion
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Indeed, there is NO evidence of a major explosion in #WTC6 on 9/11. So to the opening tweet question – “Which is it?” – I would have to say NEITHER! There is INSUFFICIENT evidence to support either falling #WTC1 parts “punching” NOR a major explosion blasting out the crater.
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So where did all the steel, concrete, office furnishings, etc. go to create the #WTC6 crater? My working hypothesis is they spewed out as clouds of dust, smoke, steam, etc., in a process that took many hours following the #WTC1 “collapse” & lasting until well into the night.
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I am going to conclude this thread here and pick up on the line of thought of HOW I think the #WTC6 crater was ACTUALLY created in a new thread. Please join me if you are interested!
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