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Observations: An Atrocity Quantified

by A. Yechiel

American experts have managed to convert the atrocity into energy: the energy given off at the time of the explosion in the Twin Towers last September 11 was 2 percent of the energy given off by the explosion at Hiroshima.

The terror attacks on America have resulted in a surfeit of studies, summaries, economic and busies speculations, and whole volumes of verbiage on social philosophies.

American physicians have calculated that the energy given off by the Boeing 767 and 757 airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center was equivalent to 500 kilograms of TNT, which is 25 times more than the energy given off by the most powerful conventional bomb [in the world] today!

The experts claim that the amount of energy created by the explosion was equivalent to about 1/25 of the energy given off by the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on the 6th August 1945.

In a special article in the American press Stephen Bloch, a biophysicist from Stanford University tries to explain how to calculate the atrocity and convert it into energy terms.

He writes that you have to take the total weight of a Boeing airplane, namely 145 tons, its gas containers filled with 63,000 liters of petrol, and flying at 850 k.p.h. "These are the basic facts, based on which you can translate weight into energy."

In order to give some idea of the figures involved, Bloch says that the energy given off by such an explosion is equivalent to at least 2 percent of the energy given off by the bomb on Hiroshima, and probably closer to 4 percent.

The intensity of this lethal blast, which led to the total collapse of the Towers also led to "earthquakes" equivalent to 2.1-2.3 on the Richter scale!


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