Reader comments: Y. professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC
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Gustavo | 12:57 p.m. Sept. 5, 2007
I completely believe it. How could it not be true? It's physics. No one sees the facts or logic in any of it. They just think that these "terrorists" are out to get us when it's our own government.
John Sr. | 9:05 p.m. Sept. 13, 2007
Just one more step towards a one world government by the Free Masons and their cohorts! The physics prove it beyond a doubt.
Nazma | 2:02 p.m. Sept. 15, 2007
Its terrible! How come it possible to kill his own people with his own weapon? American people are most unfortunate people in this world. Most of them are blind, foolish but their leaders are shrewd, cunning 100 times more than their common people. Any other attack can happen again as they are still inflaming fire behind the previous blame.
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not america | 8:16 p.m. Sept. 17, 2007
If americans think it was bush why did u elect him again, only in america would he of even got elected
Thomas Wiersma | 11:50 p.m. Sept. 24, 2007
I have been a steel worker and fabricator for the railroads in this country for over 30years, and I had the wanted ability to be tuned in to ESPN on the morning of the horrible event, and as the buildings began to implode on them selvse, and the so called experts were trying to make it sound possible by the heat generated by the jet fuel and the huge air surge of the elevator shafts, I looked at my wife and said our government just killed all those people just to start a war in the oil rich middle east and,disrupt any and all Opec Nations to begin driving the price of oil out of sight, and that is exactly what happened , and all those poor souls were sacrificed simply for the unbridled greed that has griped our counrty ever since George W. Bush, has become our president, and he and his entire group of murderers should be tried and shot for the horrible deeds that took place on that day.
Ryan | 11:08 a.m. Sept. 27, 2007
We didn't elect George W. Bush. It's a mystery to most people how he ever did take office. I believe that George W. Bush won't only be held accountable for the 2,000+ victims of 9/11 but also for the 70,000+ Iraqi civilians killed as of Sep. '07, and the great American troops that are sacrificing their lives for a lie.
Alex | 2:33 p.m. Sept. 28, 2007
I'm just waiting for the next "false flag" event. They were cooking up 9/11 for years and I know they have more murderous tricks up their sleeves. And I 2nd the motion to try and execute those actually responsible for 9/11 (though they may have to impeached and removed from office first).
James | 8:46 p.m. Sept. 28, 2007
The fires, according to the math I've gone through, could have only hit...at its worst...257 C, and that's by containing the fire to one floor, burning with perfect efficency, with no hot gasses leaving the floor, with no heat escaping by conduction and allowing an unlimited amount of time for the steel and cencrete to absorb all the heat (to figure out the hottese it could get). That's nowhere close to the 600 C where steel loses half its strength, and it's DEFENITELY nowhere close to 1535 C where steel melts. I'll agree it's explosives.
ski8bug | 12:43 p.m. Oct. 4, 2007
I just have one question, why would the government do this??
Um... | 2:58 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Why would they make their own peopel afraid for thier lives with threats, and false pretenses about diseases and manufactured death? well isnt it obvious if we just think about it? To make you their puppet. so that you have no concept to question the,? think about it who would question a government if there was an attack on their people? who would realize soon enough that the government lied? no one. It would take years for conspiracies to develope, and we can make up a whole story and throw it out to the public within 48 hours and people will get behind us. Watch this: makes up a story as to why the people should not ride bycicles. THen at a race, two trees fall down, killing hundreds. no one questions who does it, and the government blames it on individuals who they have a problem.
Anonymous | 5:16 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Not surprised a BYU professor would believe such absolute nonsense and actually propagate it. After all, you all DO believe the Book of Mormon (bwaaaaa, ha, ha, ha) so I guess it's not that much of a stretch.
Greg | 10:11 a.m. Oct. 31, 2007
As a Professional Engineer, I have looked at Dr. Jones arguments and evidence, and found them credible. It is quite a bit to "swallow" that our own government would attack "it's own" in order to promote a war, but "false flag" events are common, and very effective tools. Hitler burned the German parliment building (the Riechstag) in order to unite the people behind his warlike and radical agenda. The question in my mind is: Will Americans stop this neo-conservative generated radicalism before another world war begins?
Robert Gruber | 10:26 a.m. Nov. 1, 2007
Let's say all these conspiracy theorists are correct; the US government blew up the WTC to start a war. What about those four destroyed airplanes? Were they imaginary? Or did the CIA payoff Osama bin Laden to do that, so we could start a war in Afghanistan and force him to flee for his life into the Tora Bora mountain chain? It is all so patently absurd that all these nutjobs, including Professor Jones, should take a deep breath and go back to their day jobs, rather than pretend to know what they are talking about.
John | 1:33 p.m. Nov. 7, 2007
As a retired military person I reflect on the many days I fought fires at training facilities. Day after day we deliberatly set fire to tanks and buildings filled with oil for training in fire fighting. Not one of these structures was replaced due to melting. Check out "ground Zero Hiroshima" and see what withstood tempuratures equal to the surface of the sun and the most powerfull blast man had devised.
Casey | 4:39 p.m. Nov. 27, 2007
I support Jones, good for him to have the courage and strength to say what he believes is true. Especially against a bunch of blind sheeple that don't understand what is happening to their freedom and liberty.
Anonymous | 11:19 p.m. Dec. 11, 2007
All you can do it sit there and agree with what he's said. Getting into too much detail about all of the other events is irrelevant. All he's gone to prove is that explosives, and not plains, brought down the towers. If it was our government, with the support and greed of Rockafeller, who owned the buildings and has great stake in the oil companies, oil banking, and trade agreements, you'll just have to shrug. It's too late to do anything about it now, and out government has the strength and the ability to keep the truth hidden for a very long time.
Owen | 9:26 a.m. Jan. 7, 2008
Although Prof. Jones may be right that this was the work of explosives, that doesn't prove who planted the explosives, or how long they'd been there, or that President Bush even knew about them, seeing as government conspiracies don't necessarily require the president, and could possibly even be served by his ignorance. A proper investigation is needed before any alegations can be made, or it will just cause more problems.
Dianne Foster | 8:30 p.m. Jan. 14, 2008
Professor Jones applied a simple scientific concept: when you have eliminated the impossible what remains is what happened. Everyone has seen implosions. No one has seen a building collapse into its footprint from fire before 9/11 or after. On 9/11, and with a lot of fanfare, two such buildings were said to have collapsed from fire. Then, later in the day, another did. The third building was shown still standing on BBC, while the naive "news-reader" (as they call them, accurately, in Britain) announced it had collapsed. When it began its 6 second fall, the "feed" to the news shut down. For months, the BBC claimed to have lost the tape of this obvious pre-announcement. But why go into detail? Three impossible things happened on 9/11. I know we are all expected to believe six impossible things before breakfast in some religions, but my government is not my religion, and I do not believe them. What religious dogmas I choose to accept are between me and my God. I hold my government to worldly standards of proof and do not commit the idolatry of believing them where their explanations are without rational foundation.
Peter | 1:48 a.m. Feb. 13, 2008
I've conducted countless hours of research regarding the events of September. I don't want to preach to the choir, and I don't want you folks to do that either. Lets start basic, and lets begin with the physical facts like Jones has done. We achieve nothing by running around screaming conspiracy. We get pats on the back from people who already know the official report has huge gaping holes, and the people who believe the official story just get increasingly pissed off. This is an unfathomably polarized debate. If you like myself believe that we need another investigation into the events of September 11th, then I charge you all to exercise intelligence in the ways you bridge the gap with those non-believers. I've swayed a lot of the faculty in the engineering department of the university where I study by appealing to their sense of reason and their firm beliefs in predictability of materials and other physical improbabilities and I daresay, impossibilities that are believed to have occurred that day. I must insist that everyone who reads this consider that the ripple effects of your actions reach further than you realize. Please ready Jones' published paper. Enough said
Anonymous | 9:28 p.m. Feb. 25, 2008
Most of us aren't experts in building engineering so we need more people like Jones to step up. We all in shock just accept, Oh, it's fires. Common sense though, something seems wrong, how does steel turn to dust. Then building 7 tops off the mystery. I just want to know the truth, please. What can we do? Most people don't want to bring it up, it is cased closed. I agree with Peter above, I don't think coming up with theories is the best thing right now. The truth should come out once we pursue what we know, something seems wrong with how the buildings came down. Fires doesn't cut it for me. I would like to see a model building setup and replicate what happend to the buildings. Show that fires and the impact did it. Just thought of something, because we saw it twice, we assume that is what just happens. Of course, doesn't explain 7.
Looking Glass | 2:54 p.m. Feb. 28, 2008
Do you want to know where the next flase-flag attack is going to be?
Do you think it was just a coincidence that VP Cheeney gave the commencement speech at BYU just after the incident concerning Prof. Steven Jones?
I think it was a stern warning not touch this subject again or be considered an enemy of state.
I think the Mormons scare the crap out of these people. The Mormons are an incredibly huge, wealthy orginization that is really outside any government control. I think a dirty bomb is SLC would solve so many problems for this bunch. Think about it and weep.
Do you think it was just a coincidence that VP Cheeney gave the commencement speech at BYU just after the incident concerning Prof. Steven Jones?
I think it was a stern warning not touch this subject again or be considered an enemy of state.
I think the Mormons scare the crap out of these people. The Mormons are an incredibly huge, wealthy orginization that is really outside any government control. I think a dirty bomb is SLC would solve so many problems for this bunch. Think about it and weep.
David | 8:14 a.m. March 20, 2008
Google Zeitgeist and watch the movie
anti Looking Glass | 12:01 p.m. May 19, 2008
how did this turn into a mormon bashing?
j ferrie | 1:46 p.m. May 20, 2008
this guy is a fantasist.and was fired because of incompetance.
we have seen his file.
his methods are pseudoscience.
he is a joke in the scientific world.
a dangerous walter mitty.
we need to get behind and support are police,army and president.
we have seen his file.
his methods are pseudoscience.
he is a joke in the scientific world.
a dangerous walter mitty.
we need to get behind and support are police,army and president.
Sharon in Mississippi | 12:07 p.m. July 5, 2008
How sad that some people react with name-calling and slander when someone has the courage to voice an unpopular opinion.
If the buildings had been empty, the planes had been drones, and the surrounding blocks had been evacuated and safety precautions taken like they were for the demolition of the Key Bank building, wouldn't y'all have been hootin' hollerin' and cheerin' when those two buildings (and later WTC 7, which wasn't even hit by a plane) came tumbling straight down into their own basements with such masterful precision?
Do your research and come to your own conclusions.
If the buildings had been empty, the planes had been drones, and the surrounding blocks had been evacuated and safety precautions taken like they were for the demolition of the Key Bank building, wouldn't y'all have been hootin' hollerin' and cheerin' when those two buildings (and later WTC 7, which wasn't even hit by a plane) came tumbling straight down into their own basements with such masterful precision?
Do your research and come to your own conclusions.
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