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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?
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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (16067)9/20/2006 1:37:18 PM
From: David Howe  Read Replies (1) of 20039
 
<<< Would we not expect in a gravity only collapse that the upper floors would be draped over the lower part of the rubble? The upper columns and and hat truss to be laying on top of the pile? with the floor pans stretched and beaten up across smashed trusses? Remember the upper floors were not crushed by 97 floors. They rode the building down and were only subjected to their own weight. >>>

Ok, drop your 3 floor simulation on top of a pile of steel and rubble and see what happens. I bet if you took a picture of the pile before and after the drop it wouldn't look much different. The 3 floors whether dropped from a helicopter or falling in a building collapse would fall at only slightly different speeds. And, in either case, the floors would smash right through the pile of steel and practically disappear.
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