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To: TigerPaw who wrote (13688)	8/18/2006 12:27:22 AM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

<<< If a 5 pound bat can knock a ball 100 feet after swinging 3 seconds why can't a 100,000 ton building top? >>> Good example, but a bat is actually more effective than your stats would imply. A typical baseball swing from its start to when it hits the ball is less than 1 second, and, the ball can go as far as 500 feet. :-)

To: TigerPaw who wrote (13688)	8/22/2006 7:15:21 PM
From: Cyprian	Respond to of 20039

If a 5 pound bat can knock a ball 100 feet after swinging 3 seconds why can't a 100,000 ton building top? You must really take us for fools. Another one of your silly analogies. The baseball travels a few hundred feet in the direction that the bat was swung. That is why the ball is ejected outwards towards the stands. In the case of the towers, the top 20 or 30 floors were travelling DOWN (not out) and yet debris was ejected for hundreds of feet outwards. I'm sorry, but I simply have trouble with your analogies. Forgive me, perhaps I'm just simple-minded.