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Originally posted by Tasketo
Ok... This is something that cant be ignored. Somone please explain to me wtf this is.
Originally posted by Beer_Guy
In a tall building the strongest parts are on the outside corners. The floors at the center are probably falling first, 2 or 3 floors down before the outside falls. That creates a tremendous air pressure which is blowing out the windows below along with the dust and debris. It does look like an explosion, but I doubt that it is.
Originally posted by spacedoubt
A large rockslide there, will blow trees over that are hundreds of feet away..
The air, even though it's somewhat elastic, is displaced and still has to go somewhere..
[edit on 17-5-2006 by spacedoubt]
Originally posted by Silk
Ok im no engineer or builder BUT consider the following
take a PET bottle - coke, pepsi the choice of a generation- fill with water - make small slices in the bottle down its length horizontaly - be careful not to cut just weaken the plastic then apply force from above - stamping works. Structural integrity will give in some places and not in others - the result - water pours from fractures well below the impact of downward force. Downward pressure - ipso sum ergo propter hoc - Newton noticed it - gravivity causes a pressure build up looking for the path of least resistance.
Originally posted by Silk
Ok im no engineer or builder BUT consider the following
take a PET bottle - coke, pepsi the choice of a generation- fill with water - make small slices in the bottle down its length horizontaly - be careful not to cut just weaken the plastic then apply force from above - stamping works. Structural integrity will give in some places and not in others - the result - water pours from fractures well below the impact of downward force. Downward pressure - ipso sum ergo propter hoc - Newton noticed it - gravivity causes a pressure build up looking for the path of least resistance.