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As a hotelier, what everyone else said is right. Just don't.But.... As a wanna-be criminal mastermind, here is my idea.Require everyone to dress alike, wearing something boring and normcore-esque like white tee-shirts and jeans, or black shirts and khakis. Everyone wears the same thing, and that thing is super-dull and unworthy of notice.Check in with the maximum number of people you can. If the reservation is for two, present at the front desk with three. Should this be questioned, just say, "Oh, I live nearby - just helping them get settled." This will give you the opportunity to feel out the hotel's sensitivity to guest count.Maybe wear jackets or your matching outfits will look a little weird.Get extra keys. Four is a normal number of keys for two people to get.Request a low floor - not the lowest closest to the lobby, but the one just higher than that.Walk around the lobby and make note of where the stairs are located. Also identify how many entrances access the street level; how close they are to the aforementioned stairs; and how visible they are from the front desk. You are looking for the set of stairs that is closest to an outside door and furthest from the front desk's watchful eyes.Don't act weird; people are often lost in hotels, but people are often weirdos in hotels, too. Slippery slope, my friend.Send your third person down the elevator, past the front desk, and out the main entrance of the hotel to the meeting spot. This will alleviate any concerns that the front desk may have had about your extra person.Did I forget to mention a meeting spot? Oops. Set up a meeting spot at the Starbucks across the street from the hotel. There will be a Starbucks across the street from the hotel. Text the remaining 16 members of your party to meet at the meeting spot.Once all are assembled, distribute your four room keys and put your team in position as follows:Meeting Spot Captain: At meeting spot, completing these vital tasks:Pick a Vice Meeting Spot Captain.Maintain relative quiet, especially about your devious plans.Divide the group into small parties of two or three.Take turns with the Vice Meeting Spot Captain shuttling small parties to the hotel.Room Captain: In room, alert to danger; ready to open the door; and most importantly, prepared to silence all comers and to deliver a facile lie should the front desk call up.Stair Captain: Traveling down corridor to staircase; climbing down stairs; opening exterior door to allow entrance of small group; climbing back up stairs; guiding group to room. *Note: Stair Captain must not be easily winded. *Further note: See why I said get a room on a low floor?Proceed by bringing each small group to meet the Stair Captain at the exterior door. Tiptoe silently up the stairs; then walk silently down the hall; and then sit silently in the room. Repeat until all 20 people are in the room.Caution: All 20 people will barely fit in the room, so the Room Captain will have wanted to open the closet and bathroom doors in anticipation of this.Caution: When eating chips, the cacophonous noise of 20 mouths crunching will surely blow your cover. Instead, take turns - one crunch per person until each of your group has had a bite. Repeat as desired.Caution: Under no circumstances should group members dine upon beans or cabbage prior to executing the plan.Have fun!

I’m one!I lived in Greenwich Village and worked on Wall Street on that fateful day. Soon after I wrote down a short memoir of what happened. Here it is:“On 9/11 I was living on 10th and Greenwich Streets in New York City. The first plane flew straight down Greenwich Street, at a ridiculously low altitude. I was in the elevator on the way down to my building lobby as it was happening. When I walked out of the building, hysterical pedestrians were all pointing to the WTC. I saw the outline of a jet on the exterior wall of the WTC and a lot of smoke. I had just barely missed the first plane flying directly overhead! My top priority at that moment however was to get to work, not to figure out what had just happened. I was sure it would all be explained later in the news. So, like the trained rat that all NYC commuters are, I took my usual #1 subway train to Rector street, the closest stop to Wall street where I was working at that time. Little did I know what I was in for.One of the stops on the #1 train was Cortland Street, which connected directly to the WTC. I was aware something was wrong from what I saw back on 10th street, but the subway crew was underground and knew nothing, since the drama above us was only just unfolding. As we pulled into Cortland station the motorman announced that there was a fire and he was not going to stop at Cortland. That may have saved my life.The next stop was Rector. I got off, and as I climbed the stairs to the street, I realized I was in the middle of a tornado. Papers, rubbish, smoke and dirt filled the air. As I was walking up Rector towards Broadway and Wall, a tremendous explosion occurred behind me. It was the second plane. I later learned that a number of people were injured by falling debris where I had just been walking only a few minutes before. I got to my office on the 23rd floor of 14 Wall. We had full, unobstructed views of the WTC and we could see what was happening. In fact, one of the guys in the office was a video hobbyist and took a lot of videos that he later sold to the news networks. I’m sure you’ve seen them.[EDIT: (11/28/18) I found one of Dean’s videos on Youtube. This is taken from our 25th floor office at 14 Wall. I had already left. For some reason, a few of my colleagues decided to stay behind, including Dean.]dean riviere 9/11 video:By now everyone was aware of what was going on. Managers came in and told us all to leave immediately. Thinking I should stay away from the #1 train, I took another train just to get out of the area. After a few stops, the crew on this train stopped at City Hall station and everyone was ordered off the train. The subways were being shut down. Hundreds of cops were already at the station and guided us up to the street. It was about an hour after the second plane hit. The air was filled with ash. It was ankle deep on the sidewalks. I had no choice but to walk home. I walked up Broadway. At Canal Street, I turned and saw 1 WTC go down.Exhausted, I got back to 10th street. I walked up to the front door and reached into my pocket for my keys. Oh nooooo!!!!!!I had left my keys on my desk back at the office!”EDIT (9/9/2018):The reconstruction of the Cortland Street station has been completed and was reopened yesterday. This is the station I was in as noted in my memoir above. It had collapsed shortly after the train motorman decided not to stop there.Cortlandt Street Station, Damaged on Sept. 11, Reopens 17 Years Later

No.As noted in the release for that draft report, there will be a two month public comment period. After folks who are not collecting a pile of money from 9/11 conspiracy theory organizations have a look at the math and the computer models, then we can talk.Having skimmed the report, my own observations:It is hard to credit the prospect that two grad students and one professor managed to bring more accurate understanding to bear than the larger and better funded team at NIST. Sheer numbers don’t alway make right, but the number of viewpoints and expertise brought to bear on a problem should be considered. This is true both in assessing the likelihood of something being overlooked, and the likelihood of one team or the other maintaining a conspiracy to suppress or promote a particular narrative based on political expedience, rather than evidence.Absent the computer models, and probably an engineering degree or mathematics background to understand the underlying math, both reports are not especially meaningful. Yes, they include color prints of finite element analysis models. No, a printout of a model is not definitive.The NIST report notes that several perimeter columns of WTC 7 were broken by falling debris from WTC 1. This is not described as a significant event in terms of the final collapse, however, the INE report doesn’t seem to take the loss of these columns into account at all.The NIST report models fire effects in terms of anticipated temperature at the underside of deck above the fire floor, based on the observed fire conditions and expected combustible loads. (Which in turn tells you something about anticipated loss of strength in the steel framing.) The INE report limits its modeling of fire effects to stating that the NIST report is wrong about the effect fire had on key structural elements in the area where the collapse was presumed to begin.Neither report adequately addresses specific knock-on issues to this fire, in this building. Though the NIST report gets closer, stating that very little smoke was observed at many windows on the north face, even when fires were clearly visible, and noting this implies combustion byproducts must have exited by other routes. This is a key point which is not amplified in the NIST report and not addressed at all in the INE report. The falling debris that extensively damaged the lower level exterior of WTC 7 and started the uncontrolled fires on levels 7–13, also opened numerous other holes in the exterior, including the destruction of almost all the south facade window glass. Tall office buildings are, in effect, chimneys, with vertical stair, elevator, and mechanical shafts rising from ground level all the way to the top, surrounded by individual floors full of combustibles. It’s not likely that a more detailed temperature model of the interior could be made than the one NIST did, but that model only addresses the hot gas temperature at the ceiling above the fire line, and in effect assumes still air everywhere. Stack effect appears to have pulled hot combustion products up the building through the shafts in the core area, which would have compromised the adjacent core structure. Modern buildings tend to have a concrete shear core. WTC 7 did not, and the drywall partitions around its elevator shafts would not have lasted the duration of the fires, even assuming they were undamaged to start. Even worse, it appears based on the plans included with the INE report that rather than there being separate divider beams in the elevator banks, the floor beams ran through, thus potentially exposing the whole floor structure to heat-induced movement.Both reports don’t seem to address potential effects of the assorted massive dead loads that are found in buildings of this type. Presumably the rooftop water tanks were at least partially empty, and the cooling towers are massive, but not as dense as a tank of water - but large point loads like that may influence the collapse behavior of the structure.The NIST report seems to think the failure of column 79 is the precipitating event, based on the east penthouse being the first externally observed point of failure. This seems reasonable enough, but how that failure itself starts depends on what other portions of the interior structure were weakened.The INE report claims that the observed failure sequence can only be accounted for by the near simultaneous failure of all the core columns. The obvious implication being support for the “controlled demolition / inside job” narrative. Unsaid, however, is how precisely this could happen given the context. A charge capable of severing W14x730 column doesn’t go off without a bit of a bang. Nor would it be trivial to hide the installation. Nor would it be a clever idea to combine some sort of attempt at using explosivies to demolish a building with uncontrolled fires.