View Single Post
Old 08-02-2007, 10:16 AM   #15 (permalink)
BrodieMSU
helmet
250+ posts
 
Join Date: Mar 2004

Posts: 303
Quote:
Originally Posted by chachi View Post
This bridge... 35' off of the water took 4 seconds to collapse... WTC 1 and 2... .9 and 11 seconds respectively (NIST).

What you describe is a "progressive collapse"... funny how long it took?

There is your conspiracy angle.
If you are trying to compare the collapsing time of a bridge and a tower building, its completely offbase. Those are two completely different structures, with two completely difference failure mechanisms.
BrodieMSU is offline
 
Reply With Quote
 
Page generated in 0.11963 seconds with 9 queries