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MAX-MIHOP Says - The Aluminum Components of Flights 11 and 175 Were Used as Aluminum Powder for Phreato-Thermatic Explosions.

By: Maxwell C. Photon

aka. Dr. Thermite
aka. The Brightest Wharton MBA - EVER
aka. Our Favorite Universal Spacetime Metric
aka. The Guy Who's Kicking MILDEC's Ass

maxphoton.com

Written: June 11, 2007
Updated: August 22, 2007
Updated: September 23, 2007
Updated: October 08, 2007 - Note appended
Updated: October 11, 2007 - Note appended
Updated: October 15, 2007 - Note appended

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Hey Lawyers!

Let Max Photon help you hone in on some unusual, rhythmic, low-frequency vibrations.

Max Photon's lateral-lines detect strong black-noise coming from NIST.

The NIST WTC Investigation Team is thrashing and bleeding.

And the silence from the black-waves they are generating is the distress signal.

These unusual, rhythmic, low-frequency black-vibrations carry for miles.

Shark-lawyers - Carcharodon Carcharias - check out the NIST WTC Investigation Team - and NIST's various cloaking devices - gang-raping the minds of every soul on earth!

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There were molten-metal flows out of WTC2 before the tower collapsed. These metal flows are extremely important phenomena.

NIST_NCSTAR_1-5A/9/C (link below) describes every excruciating detail - so you have zero research to do.

Here. A gift, from Maxwell C. Photon to you - God's top predatory fish.

NIST_NCSTAR_1-5A/9/C:  Visual Evidence, Damage Estimates, and Timeline Analysis (Chapters 9-Appendix C)


Keep that report handy.

I'll show you how to maul NIST and others six-ways-from-Sunday with that thing.


Oh here, what the heck, I'll get you started on that first few trillion.

NIST NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C describes all of the thermite-related events seen in WTC2, after the impact, up to the onset of collapse (which is when NIST's investigation window slams shut, and explosive-phase of the controlled-demolition sequence can take place with impunity - cloaked really - in front of the whole world.)

Amazingly, this report is MAX-MIHOP itself, beautifully prepared - at tax-payers' expense - by NIST - just for me to give to you and your school of huge, scary shark-friends.

Just remember, merely read the report, and keep in mind that NIST conveniently left out that all the phenomena - the metal fires with white reaction regions, the metal flows, the persistent synthetic fires, the white ash, the pressure waves, the puffs, the broken windows, the migrating fires, the columns experiencing visco-elastic creep, bowing inward, and failing, etc., etc., etc. - were from thermite, and the non-electric detonators and shock-tube used to ignite the thermite. [Note added September 23, 2007: For a few weeks I have suspected that thermite-dusted shock-tube - (as opposed to ordinary shock-tube dusted with high-explosives) - ignited remotely by lasers from WTC7 - was used to ignited the planted thermite. This means non-electric detonators were NOT required! The thermite-dusted shock-tube ignited the planted thermite directly. This is a beautiful simplification!]

(The "sagging floors pulling on perimeter columns," the "Cold Spot," and other features of the narrative, were related to extra weight - most likely in the forms of 1.) pooled molten iron left over from the phreato-thermatic explosion, and 2.) water stored on the impact floors.)

Big scary shark-lawyers, just dare to believe that this single report, plus the FEMA #1391 NY Terror Attacks high resolution photos - (remember, the rust is a bust!) - are almost all you need to bite off half of the $10 Trillion 9/11 Synthetic Terror Litigation Bull Market, in one catastrophic bite.

Trust Max, and you will be rewarded beyond you wildest dreams. They are hiding the evidence in plain view. Game Theory told them no one would look there and believe it. That's the key phrase: and believe it. Dare to believe it. (Max did.)

Five trillion dollars. A 300-page report. Hmmmm. Not a bad dollar to page ratio, I'd say.

And all you have to do is believe Max Photon.


You don't even have to research or write the damn thing!

Just kick back, and let NIST tell you a very exciting story. NIST provides photos, each with a blow-by-blow account of what is happening. It is an exquisite piece of research. I still scarcely find it believable that they are actually hiding that much evidence in plain view, and I'm the guy that figured out they were hiding evidence in plain view!

Just remember that they left out one teeny-tiny itsy-bitsy word: thermite.

And don't forget, or Max will have to come and slap your head:

The thermite was not used to cut steel. The thermite was used to heat-weaken steel.

Never forget that, and Max has done his job.


So lawyers, here is exciting jury-friendly evidence, in a usable form - (Max's specialty - because Max knows people have the attention-span of fruit-flies, so they need super-thrilling input.)

Simply read NIST NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C to the jury - as written - and show the appropriate photo NIST provides with the text. (NIST provides about 85 photos.) 

Just sprinkle in "MAX-MIHOP," "thermite-in-box-columns," and "hero" a couple of times per slide, and you have an incredibly jury-friendly presentation, in a highly-usable, understandable, and riveting form.

Just another quality product from the Max Photon Linear-Thinking Shaped Charge collection.

After cutting some key fixed-thinking structural supports, a timed-sequence of FEMA disaster photo-set #1391 - explained through the lens of MAX-MIHOP - will obliterate the NIST model - and with it, the US Government's official 9/11 story.

After this phase transformation, there is nothing but liability as far as the eye can see.


(Don't forget to break of a proper chunk for your buddy Maxwell C., after the red tide clears, and the parts settle.)

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Anyway, let us return to the hypothesis that the WTC2 metal flows were molten aluminum.


NIST puts forth the argument that it was molten aluminum from the aluminum components of Flight 175.

Dr. Steven Jones said the metal flows were not molten aluminum, but molten iron product from thermite being used to cut steel members as part of the controlled-demolitions of WTC2.

(Video > Molten Fluid Sparking from WTC2? > (4:07 minutes))

Judy Wood et. al. serve as a nice back-beat, contesting Jones' findings on the color of molten aluminum, thereby attempting to put molten aluminum back in play.

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God it's noisy in here!

Not another Paul Trap! 

It's getting annoying. And it won't work.

Max is simply going to unplug the damn thing.

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Listen, the metal flows out of WTC2 were not aluminum - especially not aluminum from components of Flight 175!

The aluminum making up "Flight 175" (whatever that jet was) was used as the aluminum component of a thermite reaction - a phreato-thermatic explosion (to use my term) - that occurred when Flight 175 was deliberately crashed into WTC2 as part of the demolition team's teleological design.


WTC2's impact floors were loaded with water and iron-oxide - possibly in salt-water iron-electrolysis tanks (rust-generators).  (Or, the iron-oxide was in Flight 175, but Max suspects the former, for a number of reasons.)


I suspect two kinetic energy penetrators were shot from Flight 175 into WTC2.

The first penetrator was fired when Flight 175 was still a jet-length or two from the tower.

The second penetrator - very likely a depleted-uranium (DU) penetrator - was fired when Flight 175 hit the tower.


Incidentally, NIST said it found no evidence of missiles fired at the WTCs.

Paul's Magic Filter says, "Hey Max, I bet NIST would consider a kinetic energy penetrator a projectile - not a missile - which means - again - NIST is not lying." 

Max is right. NIST is not lying. NIST doesn't lie. NIST is just not telling the whole truth.

Instead, NIST is ambiguating the truth - it's primary strategy for cloaking the controlled-demolitions of the WTC towers, in the NCSTAR reports, in plain view.

NIST frequently doesn't tell the whole truth. Truth is just a signal - a clear signal. Max Photon is a signal-processing expert. Mr. Signal-Processor here knows enough to know that the missing chuck of truth from NIST - the missing signal - the silence - is called black noise.

Max can even pick up the noise-waves created by NIST keeping perfectly still.


The first projectile penetrated a subset of the water tanks, and either shattered some of the tanks, just from the kinetic impact, and/or shattered the tanks by creating a steam-explosion.

Flight 175 - flown by remote-control (not by terrorist-hijackers), with Kalman-filter-based guidance - crashed into WTC2, the impact of which turned the jet's aluminum structure into aluminum powder.




Flight 175's aluminum structure turned into aluminum powder when the jet hit WTC2.


The first projectile spread the iron-oxide and water in the tanks out in front of the oncoming jet debris, which included the aluminum powder from the jet's shattered structure.

The second projectile - a DU-penetrator - ignited the iron-oxide from the rust-generators, and the aluminum powder from Flight 175's shattered aluminum structure.


Here is a video of this time period > Flight 175 Stabalized [sic] Video > (12 seconds)
Click the lower-right icon in the video-viewer, to watch the video in full-screen mode.


In other words, the DU-penetrator ignited the improvised thermite, which in the presence of water, created a spectacular phreato-thermatic explosion!

[Note added September 23, 2007: My model no longer needs the DU penetrators. The hardened front landing gear shattered the tanks. Thermite sparks that occured as the jet's aluminum collided with rust on the perimeter panels and floor trusses served as a broad ignition mechanism.]


Phreato means ground water, or underground water.


Some object to my phrase, saying that is should be called a phreato-magmatic explosion, in which ground water meets magma (or something molten), creating a steam - or littoral - explosion.


I believe phreato-thermatic is more appropriate.

Icecube Explosion with Thermite

Liquid water works in place of ice. Water was used on 9/11, in the WTC towers.


Now keep the above videos in mind as you watch the following two videos of Flight 175 crashing into WTC2. (WTC2 was the second tower hit.).

You are witnessing a synthetic - or deliberately engineered - phreato-thermatic explosion.


WTC Flight 175 Impact South Tower 2 Crash > (21 seconds)
Click the lower-right icon in the video-viewer, to watch the video in full-screen mode.

United Airlines Flight 175 Witness Reactions > (30 seconds)
Click the lower-right icon in the video-viewer, to watch the video in full-screen mode.

2nd hit - head on view (remaster) > (21 seconds)
Click the lower-right icon in the video-viewer, to watch the video in full-screen mode.

United Airlines Flight 175 Witness Reactions, Part III > (2:08 minutes)
Click the lower-right icon in the video-viewer, to watch the video in full-screen mode.

Incidentally, in the last video, one can see numerous white flashes along the NE (left) corners or vertical edges of each tower. These are demolition-related initiation-flashes, elegantly cloaked at peak-emotional-moments. Note the heavy concentrations at the impact floors. These initiation flashes will ultimately lead to the ignition of thermite hidden in key structural joints.  The heat from the thermite will not cut, but heat-weaken the steel, to create the illusion that the collapse of the towers was natural and spontaneous. Max Photon will discuss these incredibly important flashes in future papers.


Continuing, let us examine photographic evidence of the Flight 175 / WTC2 phreato-thermatic explosion.

Flights 11 and 175 were used as remote-controlled, guided, kinetic, improvised phreato-thermatic explosive-incendiary weapons of domestic mass murder and terror.

The No-Plane-No-Brain faction in the 9/11 truth movement is designed by MILDEC to cloak this horrific fact.

The above set of six photos shows Flight 175 crashing into WTC2, creating an improvised phreato-thermatic explosion.

The heat from the thermite reaction broke water stored on impact floors into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which in turn exploded, creating a phreato-thermatic explosion, combined with an A1-kerosene explosion.

Water was produced in the explosive combustion of the hydrogen and oxygen gas.

The left-over aluminum-oxide ash from the thermite reaction seeded the water-vapor-rich explosion-cloud, enabling water-vapor to condense into droplets around the aluminum-oxide ash seeds.

In the above photo set, one can see the water vapor condense into droplets - seeded by the aluminum-oxide ash - and rain down out of the fireball .

The exit-explosion after Flight 175 crashed into WTC2.

In the photo above, the glowing projectile with a dark smoke trail is possibly a depleted-uranium penetrator, which was used to ignite a massive phreato-thermatic explosion in WTC2.

Note the molten or incandescent iron raining down.

Molten or incandescent iron - the product from a phreato-thermatic explosion - can be seen raining down from WTC2.




Molten or incandescent iron - the product from a phreato-thermatic explosion - can be seen raining down from WTC2.





Flight 175 was crashed into WTC2 by demolition planners, and used to engineer a phreato-thermatic explosion, mixed with A1-jet fuel.

The yellowish grey-white regions are aluminum-oxide ash.

The black regions are soot from the incomplete combustion of the A1-jet fuel, and other combustibles in the jet and building.

The bluer greyish-white regions on the underside of the fireball are water droplets raining down.

The rain is an end-product of the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen gas.

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The aluminum from Flight 175 was transformed into aluminum-oxide ash in an improvised phreato-thermatic explosion.

So Flatlanders, could you please stop all that noisy whatever-it-is-that-you-are-doing, and get up to Maximum-Speed? C?

There was no aluminum from Flight 175 to flow in the WTC2 metal flows, because the aluminum turned to aluminum-oxide ash in the phreato-thermatic explosion.

The metal flows are molten iron, as Dr. Steven Jones correctly pointed out.


I believe the molten iron flows out of WTC2 right before collapse had at least four possible sources:


1) Thermite reactions in spandrel splice gaps. See:

How Thermite Was Used To Cloak the Controlled-Demolition of the WTC Towers > To Heat-Weaken Spandrel Splice-Plates, So Their Bolt-Holes Would Appear to Tear Naturally and Spontaneously

NIST NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C graciously provides lovely tables with times, durations, and so on.

2)  Molten iron - the left over product from Flight 175's phreato-thermatic explosion - pooled on impact floors after the crash.

The spandrels formed a 13.5" lip around the perimeter of the floors. This lip- and the very low height-to-width ratio of the floors - trapped a significant proportion of the molten iron from blowing out of WTC2's east and north faces.

The weight of the molten iron would cause the floors trusses to sag a little, midspan. This would at least work against the molten iron from flowing toward the core (and down its stairwells and elevators shafts).

The molten iron - sitting on top of the concrete floors - heated the steel floor assemblies below the concrete, and helped cause the floors to sag - creating NIST FAQ #2's famous "sagging floors," which NIST's pre-engineered narrative needed to have, to provide the "pull" which caused perimeter columns to "bow inward," and eventually, "fail," thereby "initiating the collapse" of WTC2. [Max Photon cannot possibly overstate how important this paragraph is.]

An extra weight load helped cause the floors to sag, and helped pull perimeter-panels inward.

As the floors sagged - from heat-induced visco-elastic creep caused by the molten iron on top of the concrete - the molten iron pooled in low spots.

This caused more localized heating, a deepening of the low spots, and more molten iron (read: heat-energy and weight) concentrating in one place.

I suspect this pooled molten iron caused the floors to sag up to 42". Why 42"?

UL's fire tests of a WTC floor assembly only showed deflection of a few inches, maximum.

NIST manipulated this deflection to about 42"!

The reason for this is that NIST desperately needs this number to engineer and maintain plausible-deniability, because pooled molten iron - not debris fires - really did cause floor deflections of this magnitude. Basically, NIST needs to cover its ass.

The pooled molten iron served as extra, localized weight-loads that help pull perimeter-panel columns inward - even if only by creating a slight bias inward.

(Think of how one can stand on an aluminum can without it crushing, yet touch the sides ever so slightly...)

Thermite was placed inside perimeter-panel box columns, to heat the columns, to cause visco-elastic creep. 

This thermite-induced heat-weakening of the columns, coupled with the inward-pull - the inward-bias - on perimeter columns - caused by the extra weight-load on the impact floors - worked together to cause a critical number of columns to bow inward and fail.

Bazant, Le, Greening, and Benson, in "Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers: What Did and Did Not Cause It?" found only one half of perimeter columns on one floor need fail to bring about the catastrophic collapse of the WTC towers, that fires caused such conditions on 9/11, and that the controlled-demolition "allegations" have zero scientific-merit.

Max begs to differ. Check out his major offensive, in:

Max Photon's Open Letter to Bazant, Le, Greening, and Benson - authors of "Collapse of World Trade Center Towers: What Did and Did Not Cause It?"


Anyway, some of the molten iron pooled on the warped impact floors may have poured through one or several floor assemblies' bar-joist-seat (aka. floor truss seat) bolt access holes.







Molten iron may have poured through these bar-joist-seat access-holes.


3) Thermite reactions at bar-joist-seats (see the first photo of #2).

These thermite reactions were used - not to cut - but to heat-weaken bar-joist-seats, so they would appear to fail naturally and spontaneously.

NIST FAQ #2 says: "...this inward bowing [of columns] required the sagging floors to remain connected to the columns, and pull the columns inwards."

Here we see that the NIST narrative needs floors to remain connected to spandrels.

However, thermite was used to heat-weaken bar-joist-seats, so they would easily separate upon collapse, in what appears to be a natural and spontaneous manner.


4) Thermite reactions inside perimeter-panel box columns - especially in Columns 259 and 301.

See: How Thermite Was Used To Cloak the Controlled-Demolition of the WTC Towers > To Heat-Weaken Column-Splice Bolts, So They Would Appear to Strip Naturally and Spontaneously

These thermite reactions may have spilled or sprayed molten iron onto the floor assemblies. Some of the iron may have poured through one or several floor assemblies' bar-joist-seat access holes, shown in the photo above.


To repeat, there was no aluminum from Flight 175 to flow in the WTC2 metal flows, because the aluminum turned to aluminum-oxide ash in the phreato-thermatic explosion.

So shhhh.


What do we see when we look at the world through Paul's Magic Filter?


Dr. Jones is correct. The metal flows out of WTC2 are molten iron.

But Dr. Jones is wrong, in that the molten iron is not from thermite used for cutting steel.


NIST is wrong that the metal flows out of WTC2 are aluminum.

NIST is correct that the metal flows are from the aluminum in the aircraft - indirectly.

Aluminum from the jet's components stole the oxygen from the planted iron-oxide, and left molten iron product in its wake, so in a sense, some of the molten iron flows may have been from the aluminum in the jet - albeit indirectly. 


Incidentally, Paul's Magic Filter was developed exactly to disambiguate and uncloak just such examples of NIST hiding evidence in plain view, as part of MILDEC's strategy to engineer plausible-deniability.

But don't stop with Paul's Magic Filter.

Graduate to:

The MAX-MIHOP Global Collapse Analysis of the WTC Towers

(You're ready.)


MAX-MIHOP:

1.) Confirms Jones' findings that the metal flows out of WTC2 were molten iron.

2.) Provides explanations for the multiple sources of the molten iron, and the purposes of the sources.

3.) Describes thermite's many amazing uses on 9/11, which - surprisingly - do not include cutting steel!

I believe Dr. Steven Jones sees the thermite as being used for cutting steel, not for the many non-cutting MAX-MIHOP uses. It would be helpful if Dr. Jones could put forth a public position on MAX-MIHOP (as defined above).

4.) Shows how to disambiguate the NIST report, and how to see NIST hiding the evidence of controlled-demolition in plain view.

MAX-MIHOP also explains how NIST is cloaking the true collapse mechanisms of the WTC towers, and attempts to uncloak and explain the true - (MAX-MIHOP) - collapse mechanisms.

5.) Provides a global collapse model of the WTC towers that couples flawlessly with FEMA's high-resolution Ground Zero photos (Disaster #1391).

MAX-MIHOP + The FEMA Photos (#1391) =
Jury-Friendly Evidence, in a Usable Form

(Now that is reason to switch to MAX-MIHOP.)

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To follow the development of MAX-MIHOP before your very eyes, please read maxphoton.com everyday!

I would love your support. So would the U.S. Constitution.

Sincerely,

Max Photon
Department of Lighting


P.S. One can easily see the molten-iron product raining down after Flight 175 crashed into WTC2.

The molten iron is a more orange or red than one might first expect, but converting water to gas, and air-cooling on descent, dropped the temperature of the iron from yellow to yellow-orange, to this cooler color-range.


Question:

Why did MILDEC planners engineer improvised phreato-thermatic explosive-incendiary devices?

Answers:

1) The intensely exothermic reactions got rid of many forms of evidence.

- The jets were basically vaporized, so identification of the type of jet was ambiguated.
- Passengers - if there were any - were vaporized.
- The contents (read: evidence) at impact areas was destroyed.

2) The incendiary dimension created a mental context for the soon-to-follow synthetic fire sequence, needed for the pre-engineered narrative that was to become NIST's final reports.

3) More important, the crashes would have been really boring without the phreato-thermatic explosion. It needed more...zaz. A lot more.

You see, few great myths in the world have done without human sacrifice.

The Global War on Terror is no different.

MILDEC planners used a phreato-thermatic explosion - that would be captured by a zillion cameras - to create a spectacular input signal - a highly-nonlinear (irrational) emotional spike - to be fed into the media/public-mind circuitry.

You must understand that engineering a spectacular input signal was the primary purpose of the entire 9/11 synthetic-terror production.


Within 42 seconds of Flight 175 hitting WTC2, major news networks carried MILDEC disinformation - in the form of emotionally-potent over-simplifications - that:

1) Fires from jet fuel weakened WTC steel, and caused the towers to collapse:

Video > Psyops agents [MILDEC] on 9/11 > (2:15 minutes)

Video >  The official 911 story v1.0 > (8:02 minutes)


2) Al-Qaeda was guilty of these horrific acts - acts that were permanently seared - branded - onto the minds of nearly every soul on earth:

Please watch the short video > 911 solved in 42 seconds - LIVE > (2:41 minutes)
Let in the absurdity of the news coverage. This video will be a MILDEC classic!


3.) For more blatant PSYOPS , watch the videos >

ARCHIVE: PSYOPS [MILDEC] on 9/11 - (9:40 minutes)

Al-Qaeda is an illusion. It is made up. The above video beautifully captures exactly how the necessary illusion is manufactured - right before your eye! (And why not? You are the target of this propaganda.)

The Al-Qaeda illusion was easy to engineer, and it is easy to sustain.

See the following article by Max Photon for an example of how the Al-Qaeda myth is dynamically generated: A Beautiful Case Study on Filtering Highly-Nonlinear Noise

Al-Qaeda is no more real than Guantanamo Prison, or the USDollar.

All are mental stage-props in - as Max calls it - the Global War of Economic Terror.

See Max's article: Noise, Damn Noise, and MILDEC-MindWar

People, you are being duped by military-deception planner, or MILDEC.

Al-Qaeda was invented so that MILDEC demolition planners would have an evil external force to blame for the 1993 controlled-demolition test-blast, designed to test WTC steel to differential explosives. Yes, that's correct - TEST-BLAST!

Al Qaeda - a fiction - did not conduct the 1993 terror bombing of WTC1.

The 1993 WTC1 bombing was a test-blast, and alibi-generator, for those who would conduct the 2001 WTC controlled-demolitions.

After the 2001 controlled-demolitions of the WTC towers - initiated by and cloaked using thermite - as first described by Max Photon at maxphoton.com - MILDEC planners would exploit nonlinear feedback by simply using the complex multiplication of the horrific WTC photographic input signals, with the Al Qaeda illusion - and use the complex product - [Al-Qaeda - foreign terrorists bent on destroying the US and western civilization - hijacked jets loaded with fuel - crashed the jets into the WTC towers - and caused the WTC towers (and WTC7 - those studs) to collapse] - as a necessary illusion - to engineer or manufacture consent to illegally invade other sovereign nations, demolish the Constitution, and replace it with a police state.


9/11 was not so much black-op, as photo-op.

And it's not a pretty picture.


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Note added October 08, 2007:


Here is a link to a thread started at the JREF forum by Max Photon on the hypothesis of the phreato-thermatic explosions:


The aluminum of Flights 11 & 175 was used to create phreato-thermatic explosions.
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=2757227#post2757227
Thread started by Max Photon on 07/10/2007


I have relax the constraint of "all of the aluminum," to "a significant portion of the aluminum."

"All" is needlessly restrictive.


However, the presence of aluminum debris still does not mean that the flowing metal was aluminum.

The flowing metal was iron, not aluminum (and certainly not steel).


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October 11, 2007 - Note:


Today, for the first time ever, I actually came across and read Dr. Frank Greening's paper:

Aluminum and the World Trade Center Disaster; (rev. June, 2006)


I had only heard from others that Greening had suggested natural thermite sparks - (and various other reactions from materials from the jets and in the towers) - and I even borrowed his idea of the thermite sparks as the ignition mechanism for my phreato-thermatic explosions.

But I never actually witnessed Greening's paper live in its natural habitat. (Being camouflaged with no name under the title made spotting the beast tougher.)


Here I've been asking the good Doctor - who's Apollo20 at the JREF forum - if he knows whether thermite can dissociate water and create a hydrogen explosion (as well as a steam explosion).


"I'll check."



Meanwhile, his paper might as well have been titled:

Uncle Frank's Hydrogen-Helper:
Using Improvised Phreato-Thermatic Explosions to Knock of WTC SFRM



"I'll check."


Frank's a pretty funny guy.


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October 15, 2007 - Note added:

NIST NCSTAR 1-5A/9/C/AppB/Figures B11 - B14 (pages 438-441), show a 4-floor stair system.

The stairs were located on the east side of WTC2's core, by the core's SE corner.

I do not recall if these stairs were accounted for in NIST's modeling, so I'll need to check.


The presence or absence of the stairs would affect momentum transfer calculations.

The stairs might also account for the Cold Spot (and its associated debris shadow, or absence of debris on the north face).


But more germane to the discussion of the phreato-thermatic explosions is this question:

Was the 4-floor stairs system deliberately used to shatter the jet's aluminum skin?


Key to the phreato-thermatic explosions are: the distribution of aircraft aluminum particle sizes; the proportion of the aluminum in a combustible size range.


Were the stairs used to increase the amount of combustible aluminum?


In other words:

Were the stairs used to engineer a phreato-thermatic explosion in WTC2?


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