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In reply to the discussion: What REALLY happened to the plane that didn't hit the Pentagon on 9/11 [View all]Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)What The conspiracy theory, the archetype, demands is a belief in supernatural authority. Nothing is left open to chance. Nothing is an accident.
A cascade failure is no longer a process of physical constructs but the product of intelligent will. Thus, the conspiracy theorists will ignore the unromantic real story behind the collapse of WTC 7. The true story is the collapse was incremental and slow. The "final act," the final failure of the external structure, gave the appearance that the building was at one point in time structurally sound and, just a few moments later, completely destroyed.
The romantic, uninformed perspective is to ignore the conclusions made by the NIST because it doesn't conform to the demands of The conspiracy.
To establish the "improbability" of the official series of events, conspiracy theorists construct even more elaborate alternatives. All the while ignoring the irony.
By the way, you've still missed the point. You've failed to realize that, despite the best efforts of the government, the B-1 bomber was popularly known long before it was officially declared to exist. That's because, in the real world, conspiracy often fails.
To say that a magnetic bomb exists because of bent metal at the WTC site is to say that the B-1 bomber exists because you saw con trails. Which is a very different story altogether. If the only evidence for the existence of the B-1 was con trails and theory, I'd be just as skeptical. But that isn't all that exists.