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Originally Posted by Quagmire
WTC7 falling in to its own footprint all on its own due to the 9/11 attacks requires the same level of faith/belief as Jesus being the son of god.
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No, it doesn't require any faith at all. When tall buildings come down they don't tip over - they collapse.
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Originally Posted by Quagmire
And of course in your post to Matt26oz you fall back on the typical smarmy response of 'gee i wonder why'. Yeah, so do a lot of other people which is why a proper investigation should have been done. And if you think that a proper investigation was done then, this right here is what we call the successful indoctrination into the cult/religion of America. God bless you, sir.
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What do you mean a proper investigation wasn't done? Did you not hear about the 9/11 commission report? Funny, because not only did it document 9/11 pretty well, but it was also released as a book - which I have.
(I've also read "Debunking 9/11" and even "Debunking debunking 9/11". )
In fact, there was an investigation into WTC7 - multiple investigations:
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The bulk of the investigation of 7 World Trade Center was delayed until after reports were completed on the collapse of the World Trade Center twin towers.In the meantime, NIST provided a preliminary report about 7 World Trade Center in June 2004, and after that released occasional updates on the investigation.According to NIST, the investigation of 7 World Trade Center was delayed for a number of reasons, including that NIST staff who had been working on 7 World Trade Center were assigned full-time from June 2004 to September 2005 to work on the investigation of the collapse of the twin towers. In June 2007, Shyam Sunder explained, "We are proceeding as quickly as possible while rigorously testing and evaluating a wide range of scenarios to reach the most definitive conclusion possible. The 7 WTC 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."
In November, 2008, NIST released its final report on the causes of the collapse of 7 World Trade Center.[28] This followed their August 21, 2008 draft report which included a period for public comments.[34] In its investigation, NIST utilized ANSYS to model events leading up to collapse initiation and LS-DYNA models to simulate the global response to the initiating events.[43] NIST determined that diesel fuel did not play an important role, nor did the structural damage from the collapse of the twin towers, nor did the transfer elements (trusses, girders, and cantilever overhangs). But the lack of water to fight the fire was an important factor. The fires burned out of control during the afternoon, causing floor beams near Column 79 to expand and push a key girder off its seat, triggering the floors to fail around column 79 on Floors 8 to 14. With a loss of lateral support across nine floors, Column 79 soon buckled - pulling the East penthouse and nearby columns down with it. With the buckling of these critical columns, the collapse then progressed east-to-west across the core, ultimately overloading the perimeter support, which buckled between Floors 7 and 17, causing the entire building above to fall downward as a single unit. The fires, fueled by office contents, along with the lack of water, were the key reasons for the collapse.
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<<source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center>>
So don't imply there wasn't an investigation into why WTC7 fell - there was.