RSSWell by george that DOES look different from that angle. Implosion at the top. But you can’t see the bottom. And obviously a wiring at the top would not make the lower floors come down as well. Multiple wirings then…or magic.
That damn painting has not only appeared on Jared’s book, it’s provided the cover art for at least one other tome and gets reproduced online with the frequency of ‘Isle of the Dead.’ It will never be a Pepe because Pepe will always be a low comedian, Sancho Panza to Fog Man’s Don Quixote.
55 Wall was the longtime headquarters of Citibank, actually.
About the Twin Towers: did the author witness them coming down on 9-11? Apparently not. I had a ground-level, unobstructed view from directly across the river, and I had no doubt at the time that the buildings were imploded from the bottom. The upper floors did not suddenly sink or “pancake.” There were visible and audible blasts at ground-level or below. The buildings collapsed in similar fashion to what one sees in controlled implosions of Las Vegas hotels or the Pruitt-Igoe Houses. Plumes of smoke and debris rose from the bottom as the buildings fell. I assumed this implosion was some sort of safety measure; no sinister “conspiracy” at all.
Flames and smoke from the crashed airplanes had largely subsided by this time (90 minutes or more after initial impact). The notion that burning jet fuel in the upper storeys could melt or weaken the steel on all storeys simultaneously—including those 50 or 60 floors below—is ludicrous. But armchair speculators who weren’t there will go on parroting whatever nonsense they’re told.