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It's incredible to me to make the astonishing realization that the airplane weighed approximately 100 tons, while the buildings themselves were 500,000 tons. By weight comparison, an aluminum can with 1/250 th of an ounce of lighter fluid (a few drops) being thrown into a wall of 12 cinder blocks, and the impact & resulting fire causing the entire wall to fall to the ground and pulverize into microscopic powder.
Originally posted by thedman
Lets see - a common .38 pistol round weighs in at 158 gr (10 grams)
or about a third of an ounce.
Originally posted by ianr5741
Sure. Your .38 makes a hole. The tower of blocks still stands.
Originally posted by ianr5741
It's incredible to me to make the astonishing realization that the airplane weighed approximately 100 tons, while the buildings themselves were 500,000 tons. By weight comparison, an aluminum can with 1/250 th of an ounce of lighter fluid (a few drops) being thrown into a wall of 12 cinder blocks, and the impact & resulting fire causing the entire wall to fall to the ground and pulverize into microscopic powder.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by ianr5741
Sure. Your .38 makes a hole. The tower of blocks still stands.
Not to mention the towers did still stand after they were struck, with only minor damage. So it has to be the bullet AND the lighter fluid!
(Of course "minor" will be disputed by everyone that still likes to imagine the planes almost cut the building in two, but I consider less than 15% of the support columns being severed on only those floors "minor.")
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Originally posted by fastfingersfunk
on the contrary, many many respected and renowned structural engineers have explained with great competency what caused the collapse.
Originally posted by ianr5741
Hey, don't take my word for it. Listen to these guys:
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Some claims made:
- "The building would be able to sustain multiple impacts by jetliners."
- "Load capacity was 2,000% static." That's 20 times stronger than necessary!
- "The base columns along an entire side of the building could be taken out and then the building could be put into a hurricane wind, and it would still stand."
We know the buildings withstood the impact. So what we must then conclude is that the only strength remaining was overcome by fire.
10 tons of fuel cannot utterly destroy 500,000 tons of steel, concrete, and glass.
Have you ever stuck fake plant stems into those hard green spongy things that go in the bottom of planters? It's full of hard bubbles, cells. You can destroy the heck out of those things but they remain solid.
A building is similar. It's design is like a bunch of cells. You can crush parts of it, but the rest of it has no problem holding up its own weight. For example, the Mariott hotel stood even after this much damage:
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But look at this building. Would you say it's falling, or exploding?
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Hey, if you can't take it from the mouth of the engineers themselves, what else can I say?
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Originally posted by fastfingersfunk
on the contrary, many many respected and renowned structural engineers have explained with great competency what caused the collapse.
Most reports including the original NIST computer model state that the buidlings withstood the planes impacts.
NO steel building has ever collapsed due to fire, no matter how severe.