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KenyonG
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Jun 29 2009, 08:23 PM
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- tuatara
- Jun 29 2009, 08:05 PM
- KenyonG
- Jun 29 2009, 07:27 PM
This is how things happen in the real world. When a building collapses, there are voids and such. This should not surprise you. I can't explain how it happened, it is just the way it fell. I can't explain how a pregnant woman can fall thousands of feet, when her chute got tangled, landed face down in a parking lot, and still gave birth to a healthy baby. They are both doing fine. I can't explain how a window washer can fall 46 stories and survive. It happened. I could go on and on.
You seem to want your thousands and thousands of tons to completely obliterate a massive tower block and yet you seem quite happy for there to be remarkably little debris in the footprint of the towers and people surviving on the lower levels. I believe that a large percentage of the mass did not come straight down, it was blown outwards or turned to dust - because I can see that from watching films of the collapse. There are huge pieces of steel hurled large distances. There are many, many other aspects that prove it was not thousands of tons coming straight down. That is how things happen in the real world.
You are right, it did not come down all in the footprint, that is why it was not controlled. I never said it all came down the way you are implying. I'm simply saying that there is a maximum load that each floor could support and when the top parts started coming down, that load was far exceeded. How many floors did you expect to collapse before the collapse stopped? I just can't see the floors below stopping this collapse. If the collapse stopped at the 50th floor, the 50th floor would have to be strong enough to hold what ever came down on it from the top 60. Very hard to fathom.
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