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I have not read the entire commission report, but I seriously doubt more than a hundred people in the world have read the whole thing. But reading excerpts from it, it becomes clear that the commission was sent in with the mandate to explain how these buildings were brought down by a bunch of extremists with planes.
If you go into an investigation with one idea, no matter how obvious it may seem (Occums Razor and all that jazz), the ability to objectively consider any other way that something occured is thrown out the window.
You get scientists and engineers to be consultants and ask them the question, is it possible that the burning jet fuel weakened the structures enough to initiate a complete and outright collapse of the buildings.
Now, because this has never happened before in the course of human history the results of such an event would be based on pure theoretical science and if every condition for such an event was to be met, then sure it could be possible. And we have to accept that it was possible because well, it happened.
But what are the odds of every single piece of the theoretical puzzle actually occurring? Pretty astronomical I would imagine, considering that with 110 storeys of material the chances of just the top half of the building collapsing sideways are probably the same as the entire building collapsing. And yet they didn't - twice.
Did the commission do any sort of investigation apart from a mere passing fancy into whether an outside source other the planes contributed to the collapse of the buildings?
If you as an investigator walk into a room where there is a dead guy with a bullet in his head and the gun laying in his hand, the obvious conclusion is suicide. But you have to investigate all other avenues of his death and look at all the evidence around. It might be murder.
Unfortunately much of the evidence that could have been useful to the investigation 18 months later had either been dumped, destroyed or was witheld because of national security.
Seems like they were hamstrung with the mandate of find this as a case of hijacked planes flying into the towers or don't bother submitting your report.
If you go into an investigation with one idea, no matter how obvious it may seem (Occums Razor and all that jazz), the ability to objectively consider any other way that something occured is thrown out the window.
You get scientists and engineers to be consultants and ask them the question, is it possible that the burning jet fuel weakened the structures enough to initiate a complete and outright collapse of the buildings.
Now, because this has never happened before in the course of human history the results of such an event would be based on pure theoretical science and if every condition for such an event was to be met, then sure it could be possible. And we have to accept that it was possible because well, it happened.
But what are the odds of every single piece of the theoretical puzzle actually occurring? Pretty astronomical I would imagine, considering that with 110 storeys of material the chances of just the top half of the building collapsing sideways are probably the same as the entire building collapsing. And yet they didn't - twice.
Did the commission do any sort of investigation apart from a mere passing fancy into whether an outside source other the planes contributed to the collapse of the buildings?
If you as an investigator walk into a room where there is a dead guy with a bullet in his head and the gun laying in his hand, the obvious conclusion is suicide. But you have to investigate all other avenues of his death and look at all the evidence around. It might be murder.
Unfortunately much of the evidence that could have been useful to the investigation 18 months later had either been dumped, destroyed or was witheld because of national security.
Seems like they were hamstrung with the mandate of find this as a case of hijacked planes flying into the towers or don't bother submitting your report.
