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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?
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To: David Howe who wrote (15171)9/8/2006 4:59:20 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
...but if it falls with 1000 feet of force, it might just crumble.

So you're saying that the building fell at free fall speed? That the force was the same on the top concrete slabs as it would be if they were dropped 1000 feet? I thought the building failed in a pancake type failure? In that case the lower floors of the upper part would have been absorbing the energy on the way down, and the buckling columns would have been slowing down the collapse. You'd expect that the upper floors would be semi intact laying on top of the mess...but look at the photo of ground zero...it's all shredded up beyond recognition.

Another thing that is interesting. In that arial photo all the big main columns are straight in short sections. Hardly a bent one in the pile. If columns failed due to buckling then all of them would be bent like pretzels, no? How come they are in uniform sizes and hardly any connected members? Like the fully welded beam to column connections?

The outer columns were shattered into their original assembly pieces and smaller.

I don't know for sure but it looks like a controlled demolition. Too much energy needed beyond the potential energy in the building to get that many small pieces of steel and the concrete turned to dust.

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