Reply #91: "Independent" of what?

[William Seger]

The government? Almost all of the engineers who participated in the initial FEMA investigation were private-sector volunteers. The various private industry and academic bodies involved in the NIST study, which was the majority of the principle participants, are documented here: http://wtc.nist.gov/WTC%20Response%20Presentation%2011122002%20text.pdf
It's not my concern that that isn't sufficiently "independent" for the no-conspiracy-too-large theorists, but then again, that's one important reason why such theorists haven't been (and never will be) taken seriously by anyone other than their fellow fantasists. Especially considering that such fantasists don't trust anyone who doesn't tell them what they want to hear. The rather obvious reason why the "movement" can't seem to find any qualified experts to tell them what they want to hear seems to elude them.

> Also, the towers didn't fail at the impact floors, so how was the fire proofing stripped from the non impact failure floor?

Nice try "truther," but you need to check your facts: WTC 1 was damaged at least between the 93rd and 98th floors and the collapse started at about the 97th floor. WTC 2 was damaged at least between the 78th and 84th floors and the collapse started at about the 80th floor.

> And of course there is nothing to indicate that the fire proofing wasn't fully intact in building #7.

Nor is there anything to indicate that it was fully intact. Nor is there any reason to think that even if it was intact, the building was invulnerable to fire.