NIST status update

[Kryptos]

Not sure if anyone noticed that NIST released a status update for the WTC7 collapse investigation.

http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/r...tc_062907.html

They expect to release a draft report for public comment by the end of the year.

Quote:

"We are proceeding as quickly as possible while rigorously testing and evaluating a wide range of scenarios to reach the most definitive conclusion possible," said Shyam Sunder, WTC lead investigator for NIST. "The WTC 7 investigation is in some respects just as challenging, if not more so, than the study of the towers. However, the current study does benefit greatly from the significant technological advances achieved and lessons learned from our work on the towers."

Quote:

The current NIST working collapse hypothesis for WTC 7 is described in the June 2004 Progress Report on the Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (Volume 1, page 17, as well as Appendix L), as follows:

An initial local failure occurred at the lower floors (below floor 13) of the building due to fire and/or debris induced structural damage of a critical column (the initiating event) which supported a large span floor bay with an area of about 2,000 square feet;

Vertical progression of the initial local failure occurred up to the east penthouse, as the large floor bays were unable to redistribute the loads, bringing down the interior structure below the east penthouse; and

Horizontal progression of the failure across the lower floors (in the region of floors 5 and 7, that were much thicker than the rest of the floors), triggered by damage due to the vertical failure, resulting in a disproportionate collapse of the entire structure.

[LashL]

Thanks, Debunk911Myths, for the link to the update.

[Travis]

So first it was early 2007 and now it's before the end of the year.

I'm starting to think the Freedom Tower will be done before this thing is. Oh well.

[T.A.M.]

This quote will surely make the truth movement cry "Shill"...

Quote:

This hypothesis may be supported or modified, or new hypotheses may be developed, through the course of the continuing investigation. NIST also is considering whether hypothetical blast events could have played a role in initiating the collapse. While NIST has found no evidence of a blast or controlled demolition event, NIST would like to determine the magnitude of hypothetical blast scenarios that could have led to the structural failure of one or more critical elements.

TAM

[Geedubya]

Quote:

"We are proceeding as quickly as possible while rigorously testing and evaluating a wide range of scenarios to reach the most definitive conclusion possible," said Shyam Sunder, WTC lead investigator for NIST. "The WTC 7 investigation is in some respects just as challenging, if not more so, than the study of the towers. However, the current study does benefit greatly from the significant technological advances achieved and lessons learned from our work on the towers."

Translation: "We can't figure a way around the fact that explosives HAD to have been used in order for 7 to fall into it's own footprint in free-fall time. It's still bugging us that THREE steel framed buildings fell into their own footprint in free-fall time ON THE SAME DAY!! Our statisticians tell us this is virtually impossible, and our historians tell us it's never happened before in history! And by golly, that's a compelling case they make."

JUST KIDDING! Had to get rid of that annoying message at the top telling me to "post something, you bum!" End of the year?

Of course like it won't quickly be dismissed as govt. disinfo anyway. There's so much invested at this point.

Thanks though, really, Debunk9er Here's hoping it contains some new and revealing information, pictures, testimony, etc.....