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Originally Posted by lars
Roundhead, I suggest you see the movie World Trade Center. While I realize this is a Hollywood recreation. It does remind us of the size of the WTC. And the enormous weight of the upper floors compacting on the entire building. I think people forget just how big those towers were. They were HUGE and the weight of top floors collapsing on a weakened structure was amazing. It is easy to see how the weight pancaked the buildings.
It is also easy to see how the collapse damaged the building around. Pieces of the building were falling off prior to the collapse and when they fell the hit other buildings. When you look at the WTC from a distance it seems small footprint but in reality they were large and created a lot a damage in the surrounding area when they fell.
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i actually find myself agreeing with most all of your comments..especially how huge the towers are...thats why it bugs me that you believe those tiny planes could have brought them down....do you realize that those planes(fully loaded..btw they werent)comprise .03 percent of the mass of one of the towers..thats 1/3 of 1%...thats why the guy who built the towers.Frank Demartini(project manager)
said they would be like putting a pencil into mosquito netting,i remember Fletch calling this guys quote stupid..i would think he should know about the towers and their construction,as he was in charge of it...