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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (60766)	3/7/2005 6:11:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Ray, the two were quite different constructions, with different materials, different damage, different fires. The building does look solid. But once a train gets moving, it takes more than a few columns to stop it. Columns and beams etc are designed to provide static load resistance, with some movement due to earthquakes, wind and people running around. They are not designed to stop, or even slow, the top half of a building landing on them at speed. <Here's a comparison photo questioning why the laws of physics were suspended in New York, but not in the recent hirise fire in Madrid:> The laws of physics didn't change by moving to Madrid. Mqurice