that, echoed once by the gal who used to cut my hair. How to explain the destructive power of F=ma and what a quickly accelerating mass of increasing aggregate weight heading straight down in one direction can do – how to explain that to someone who had already jumped on the conspiracy wagon. We had always been friendly towards each other, so, after a while, rather than flip out (inside I was seething), I asked her for the talcum powder. I shook a large amount of the powder onto my upturned left hand and held my downturned right hand a few inches above it. “See the space between my hands? Let’s say that’s the 60th floor of one of the world trade center buildings. This is what happened when everything above the 60th floor came straight down on top of it.” Then I (angrily, I admit) brought my right hand down hard and fast. Loud noise and a big cloud of powder. I went on to explain that what she saw in the collapse of WTC1 and 2 were clouds of instantly pulverized building materials, furniture, rugs and glass, being ejected from each floor as the structures collapsed and not explosions. I let her imagination run on the part about pulverization.
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