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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (14976)9/6/2006 10:01:44 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039
 
On the order of ten times longer or more

What gives you that idea?
Once something is falling with enough momentum it just crashes on through. You don't believe that each floor stopped and had to begin the fall from the beginning ... do you?

TP



To: Orcastraiter who wrote (14976)9/6/2006 10:02:41 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039
 
it falls in near free fall time.

Only a second or two slower than free fall, which is about what you would expect.

TP



To: Orcastraiter who wrote (14976)9/6/2006 10:33:10 PM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039
 
Even when NOVA did their computer-modeled simulation of a pancake collapse for one of the towers it took 10 seconds for 20 floors....and that was without the exterior support beams altogether, without the floor trusses and without the connections to the central columns. They then turned around and called it "proof" of the pancake theory. LOL.


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