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To: LPS5 who wrote (10043)	2/17/2005 5:43:52 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

Mr e > Does your imagining of the damage not permit, or otherwise preclude, collapse by virtue of the combination of fire and structural damage? Besides the objective evidence for the use of explosives**, what is very strange is WTC2 where the aircraft struck the building on the south wall at an angle and, in fact, nearly passed right through the corner of the building. This caused a great deal of the fireball to occur outside the east wall. Not only did WTC2 fall before WTC1, one would have imagined that the combination of fire and structural damage at the corner of the building would have caused it to topple over, like a tree when it is felled. Yet (a) the debris of the building fell within its footprint (b) the 44 four inch thick steel, central columns offered no resistance, the building, in fact, falling in the line of greatest* resistance, namely, into itself. Had it fallen as one would have expected in the event of apparent structural failure, it would have fallen in the line of least resistance ie it would have toppled over in the south-east corner (c) the rate of "collapse" of the building was almost at the theoretical rate of gravitational fall. In other words, a stone or whatever dropped from the top floor would theoretically have taken 9 seconds to hit the ground. The building collapsed/disintegrated in about 12 sec. *** Besides the squibs and plumes of ejected dust and debris already mentioned, the particle size of the dust at less than 100 microns, its voluminous quantity, the associated heat which accompanied the dust as it traveled down the streets and the large pieces of steel which were thrown 150 metres from the buildings, are all suggestive of the use of explosives. Furthermore, there is the otherwise unexplained seismic vibration of 2.1-2.3 on the Richter, which coincides with the collapse of the buildings but which indicates a release of potential energy far in excess of what the gravitational collapse of the buildings could have caused. There is also the otherwise unexplained presence of molten steel in the basements which persisted for weeks afterwards. As you know, burning aircraft fuel cannot melt steel.