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To: David Howe who wrote (15976)	9/23/2006 6:09:16 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 20039

thin wood dowels. You mean like as if each floors support had been cut with explosives? Isn't that just admitting the truth?? It would be better if you made your scale model using continuous supports i.e. like as in the real building. Make um even 33% as strong as the scale strength say they should be. Make the model at about 1/200 scale, about 2 meters high. Poke a hole about the size of a scaled Boeing 757 and put some gas in about the 85 floor and set fire to it. Use a 25 pound sledge hammer and see if you can get the thing to collapse by hitting it from the top. Even pounding it as hard as you can for several hours, I doubt if you will get it to collapse, never mind collapse it at the acceleration of gravity. QED.

To: David Howe who wrote (15976)	9/23/2006 9:31:50 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 20039

You're right. The supports were removed between each floor. mediumrecords.com Instead of hands pulling out the supports as you describe though...it was explosive charges. The core column supports...blown out. The perimeter column supports...blown out. To imagine that such a huge quantity of steel support columns all failed simultaneously from gravity driven structural failure would take the imagination of someone who has little connection to reality. Simultaneous, gravity driven collapse of massive steel columns and the entire structure of the towers to proceed from top to bottom in 10 seconds would require all that simultaneous failure to progress floor by floor at this speed: mediumrecords.com Each "thump" represents one floor failing. 7.9floors/sec. There's no way possible for gravity driven structural failure to occur at that rate given the immensity and integrity of the structural complex within the towers. Now, do it via computerized timing of sequenced detonation? No problem.