New Video: You’ve watched the North Tower collapse hundreds of times.
But you’ve probably never actually seen it like this.
Pay very close attention to the central core.
The floors and exterior structure descend around it while substantial portions of the core remain standing considerably longer.
That is one of the most important things this visualization reveals.
In the familiar footage of 9/11, enormous clouds of dust and debris quickly obscure almost everything. Most people naturally perceive the collapse as beginning when the exterior starts visibly moving and ending when debris reaches the ground.
But that is not the complete structural collapse sequence.
There is evidence that internal structural failures, including dropped floors, were already occurring before the unmistakable global descent became obvious from outside. And after that descent began, the dust cloud concealed much of what happened next.
NIST noted that significant portions of the towers’ cores remained standing for roughly 15 to 25 seconds after collapse initiation.
Think about what that means when someone tells you the entire building simply “fell at free-fall speed.”
It also creates a serious problem for the controlled-demolition claim. If explosives had rapidly destroyed the tower’s primary structural supports to initiate the collapse, we should not be watching substantial portions of the central core remain standing after the surrounding floors and exterior structure had already descended.
Yet that is exactly what the real footage shows.
And this is important: this animation is a visualization, not a perfect frame-for-frame reconstruction.
Do not treat every beam, every floor failure, or every second of the internal sequence as literal. Much of the real collapse was hidden from every camera, so no model can reproduce every detail perfectly.
What Kostack Studios has done is remove the enormous visual obstruction and allow us to appreciate structural features that are very difficult to see in the original footage.
The model also illustrates debris from the North Tower striking World Trade Center 7, helping show how WTC 7 sustained damage and fires following WTC 1’s collapse.
But the biggest thing I want you to watch is the core.
The North Tower did not simply disappear downward as one intact object. Different parts of the structure failed at different times, and substantial portions of the central core remained standing after much of the surrounding structure had disappeared into the dust cloud.
Full credit to Kostack Studios for the tremendous amount of work that went into this visualization.
In the first comments I’ll include several photographs showing the surviving core through the dust, the subsequent NIST-authored forensic paper discussing evidence of internal floor failures before global collapse, and a link to the complete original Kostack Studios video.
Please take a moment to watch the original video and give it a like. The creator deserves the views and credit for the work that went into it.
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Twenty five years ago today tragedy struck.
Two decades later the world still faces its share of horrors. Yet a couple washing their Mazda Miata with the ruins of the World Trade Center behind them is a quiet reminder that life goes on.
En 6 años Cali sobrevivió una pandemia, una toma guerrillera con paro y ahora un gran terremoto.
Hay ciudades que no viven algo así en toda una generación.
Nosotros sí.
Y seguimos de pie.
Cali merece volver a ser una ciudad segura, próspera y feliz. ❤️
Anoche en el agüelulo de La Caldera del Diablo se recordó la memoria de Jairo Saavedra y Vicky Caicedo, quienes la noche antes del terremoto estuvieron allí, en esa mesa. Sonó Siempre Alegre, en su nombre y en el de quienes ya no están.
Vive la vida
mira que se va y no vuelve
El abelardismo va por muy buen camino para garantizar la llegada de Carolina Corcho o Daniel Quintero a la Presidencia en 2030.
Sigan así, que apenas ganaron por 250 mil votos.
Cali se siente callada...
No hay música
No hay bullicio
Mi Cali está en duelo por los que ya no están, por los que lo perdieron todo...
Mi Cali está triste! ❤️🩹
Qué semana tan larga la que termina hoy, en medio de una noche particularmente lluviosa, fría y silenciosa en Cali.
Saldremos de esta. Por los que ya no están, por quienes lo perdieron todo y por esta ciudad que tendrá que volver a levantarse.
Trabajar estos días no está siendo fácil, pero los colombianos nos lo ponen todo un poco más sencillo: nos atienden, nos explican y nos ayudan a contar lo que está ocurriendo. Y, sobre todo, se ayudan entre ellos. Voluntarios, vecinos, rescatistas…
En cada tragedia hay lecciones, y esta unidad y esta solidaridad son una lección maravillosa.
Gracias 🇨🇴Colombia. Qué gran país. ❤️
Le están diciendo a la comunidad internacional que quieren adelantar las operaciones de rescate solo con personal colombiano. ¿Me quiere alguien explicar, además de un nacionalismo pésimamente concebido, cuáles pueden ser las razones detrás de una decisión tan miope en este momento?
Si eres rescatista, personal humanitario, o médico, y necesitas hospedaje cortesía en Cali, escríbeme por DM. En Hoteles Spiwak Chipichape hemos habilitado habitaciones para ese fin.
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