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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LPS5 who wrote (10170)	3/2/2005 8:05:04 AM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 20039

...no resistence [sic] from building materials?!? I don't understand what this means. How can you say, or upon what are you basing the statement, that there was "no resistance" in the buildings' collapses? The fact that the towers fell at the rate you'd expect gravity to pull them down, with no resistence. Sure, buildings come down at the speed you expect them to fall when a controlled demolition occurs. But, a building that loses its structural itegrity and collapses, you'd expect it to take longer to fall, as there are building materials and structures on the lower floors that would provide resistence to the collapse. Perhaps it would take 15 or 20 seconds, instead of 10 seconds. That doesn't sound like much, but it's a lot of time when considering the physics of a building collapse. This is why some conspiracy buffs are raising questions about how fast the WTC 1,2,7 all came down. I think these questions deserve answers.

To: LPS5 who wrote (10170)	3/2/2005 12:03:31 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 20039

Other Fires in Steel-Structure Buildings WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7 are the only steel-structure buildings ever to have collapsed (allegedly) as a result of fire. There are several cases of fires in other such buildings, none of which collapsed. In May 1988 a fire at the Interstate Bank Building in Los Angeles destroyed four floors and damaged a fifth floor of the modern 62-story building. The fire burned for four hours. The building did not collapse. See iklimnet.com In February 1991 a fire gutted eight floors of the 38-story One Meridian Plaza building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The fire burned for 18 hours. The building did not collapse. See sgh.com In October 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela, a fire in a 56-story office tower burned for more 17 hours and spread over 26 floors. Two floors collapsed, but the underlying floors did not, and the building remained standing. See cbsnews.com In February 2005 there was another "towering inferno" in Taiwan. The fire burned for about an hour and a half, but the building never came close to collapsing. See itv.com Also in February 2005 the 32-story Windsor Building in Madrid, Spain, caught fire and burned for two days. The building was completely engulfed in flames at one point. Several top floors collapsed onto lower ones, yet the building remained standing. See news.bbc.co.uk See also Christopher Bollyn's 9/11 and the Windsor Tower Fire. It is not well-known that WTC1 itself survived a serious fire in 1975. It started on the 11th floor and spread to six other floors, burning for three hours. For more details see The World Trade Center Fires (Not So Hot eh?). How come WTC1 survived a 3-hour fire in 1975 but completely collapsed as the (alleged) result of a fire lasting less than two hours on 9/11? serendipity.li