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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (17166)	4/14/2007 8:46:22 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 20039

found 300 feet away? A building collapse is a chaotic event. I already explained it, but I didn't point out the explanation. When all this debris tries to go down, and it wants to go down in as straight and clean a path as it can, sometimes there is other debris in the way. In these cases a fraction of the downward energy can be converted into lateral energy and the debris basicly moves aside (until it finally comes to rest on an obstacle it can't get around, such as the earth). Since this is a chaotic environment, there will be isolated places where these lateral forces add up, and even a small fraction of the force from that many tons can make some lateral motion quite large. In essence, some debris gets caught between two much larger accumulations of debris and even a small fraction of that force is quite large. It will "squirt" sideways (or up or even down) like soap in the shower when you squeeze it. You will notice that while debris may have been found 300 feet away, it was not much in terms of the total amount of stuff that fell. TP