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Originally Posted by roundhead
and you are ignoring the fact they were designed to be hit by a FULLY LOADED 707...hint fully loaded 707...ie 25,000 gallons of fuel...not the 10,000 gallons the tower planes had onboard...and dont try and tell me a 707 is a dinky plane..there sizes are very similar..
and you seem to ignore the project managers qquote i cited earlier..they would do anything to the towers
so here you have a building designed to withstand 140mph winds(more stress than the planes would have made)and the guy who built them teling us the planes would be nothing in the scope of damage to make them come down...pretty convincing to me
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Roundhead. Here is a direct quote from the firm who designed the WTC and Les Robertson the DESIGNER OF THE WTC.
http://www.caddigest.com/subjects/wt...ct/council.htm
"Les Robertson, a structural engineer who participated in the original design of the World Trade Center and former chairman of the Council, has his offices in New York's financial district. He was, however, in Hong Kong at the time of the attack. On Thursday we received an email from Les. In part, it states,
'Yes, fire brought down the towers, but the structural integrity created by the engineers allowed perhaps thousands of persons to evacuate the building prior to the fire-induced collapse.'
He DOES NOT believe that the towers should have stood after the attacks. And in fact they DID withstand the impact of the planes just NOT THE RESULTING FIRES.