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Originally Posted by lars
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. |
Ah, at last some sanity to this whole bizarre theory counter theory.
The conspiracy nuts focus so much on fire. "A fire couldn't do this or do that". Not many folks consider the concussion of the blast from the exploding plane as it impacted and plowed into the towers. There's no telling how much internal structural damage was done by aircraft parts flying all through the impact area. Perhaps an engine cowling ripped through some internal beams, twisting and torqueing all its contact points. Or a hunk of wing or fuselage ripping through a couple of floors spreading the damage and providing an expanded area for the inferno to feed through.
Who knows. I'm shocked that the conspiracy society didn't pin the notion of "setting explosives" on the firefighters who entered the buildings.
What bothers me are all the attacks on the military for supposedly "not doing ther job and preventing the tragic events from happening". That is an ignorant charge by people who have no knowledge of how and what the military trains to do. These attacks were outside the box of our military's mission. It's an insult to the good men and women of our armed services who responded swiftly that day and I was damn proud to have been working with them that night.