WTC1 Post Descent Smoke And Dust Plumes
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this is truly horrific footage, femr2. thanks for uploading.
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Wow. yeah I see what you mean.
There´s no difference between the pyroclastic movement of a volcano´s ashes and that gigantic plume.
The first wave of smoke could maybe, just maybe explained by the energy from the collapse, but the second..which seems to be even larger?
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Let the video load in full. Pause. Then drage backand forth from 1:12 to the end of the video. A large darker smoke cloud emerges.
What caused it ?
Again, remember scale. The height of the smoke clouds dwarfs the original towers.
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I think that one explanation for this is an upward rush of very hot air ,coupled with the concrete being pulverised to an almost talc like consistency.
There´s NO way this amount of heat was caused by the dying fire in the tower.
And how can the dust get to such a fine state?
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so whats wrong
Good point. I´ve often wondered this myself. How did the initial column of smoke/dust remain static.
onesliceshort 2 years ago
The behaviour of the plumes can be seen more clearly if you scrub back-and forth by dragging the video position handle.
In this way you can see:
How the 'ball' of smoke created at collapse initiation expands into a huge spherical smoke mass drifting left.
How the large darker smoke plume emerges from center frame after collapse.
How there is a ridiculous volume of smoke emerging from the right of the frame.
Remember scale. WTC 7 is 147m tall. The plumes are HUGE.
femr2 2 years ago