Skyscrapers designed to withstand airplane impacts

Originally posted by HowardRoark

From the Glanz and Lipton series of articles for the New York Times, titled “Height of Ambition” Back in the 60’s before the towers were built, there were some who opposed their construction.

(a link to the whole series can be found here, toward the bottom pf the page)

Part 4

Back in the 60’s before the towers were built, there were some who opposed their construction.

Lawrence Wien, who was continuing his fight against the towers, . . . ran a nearly full-page ad in The Times with an artist's rendition of a commercial airliner about to ram one of the towers. ''Unfortunately, we rarely recognize how serious these problems are until it's too late to do anything,'' the caption said.

Obviously the concern that the building could be hit by a plane was legitimate and not all that prescient, but I find the quasi-Islamic message to be rather eerie.

The title of the newspaper article caught my attention.

"The mountain comes to manhatten"

'If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad will go to the mountain.'

www.bartleby.com...

Koran
[56.5] And the mountains shall be made to crumble with (an awful) crumbling,

www.hti.umich.edu...

[edit on 1-9-2006 by In nothing we trust]