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While watching this, some irrefutable evidence has come to light which I haven't considered before. How can the upper section of a building, off center by 22 degrees, cause complete symmetrical collapse of the floors below it? How can this section of building with it's angular momentum continue to crush the floors below @ free fall speed.
Originally posted by mbkennel
A structural overload from dynamic forces will break interior elements all the way up and down the building even before the full collapse wave has hit it.
At the moment of the picture, lots of steel columns and reinforcements the whole length up and down have already failed.
There was plenty of forces and destruction to collapse the building everywhere.
[edit on 31-5-2009 by mbkennel]
(1) the impact of the planes severed and damaged support columns, dislodged fireproofing insulation coating the steel floor trusses and steel columns, and widely dispersed jet fuel over multiple floors; and (2) the subsequent unusually large jet-fuel ignited multi-floor fires (which reached temperatures as high as 1,000 degrees Celsius) significantly weakened the floors and columns with dislodged fireproofing to the point where floors sagged and pulled inward on the perimeter columns. This led to the inward bowing of the perimeter columns and failure of the south face of WTC 1 and the east face of WTC 2, initiating the collapse of each of the towers. Both photographic and video evidence—as well as accounts from the New York Police Department aviation unit during a half-hour period prior to collapse—support this sequence for each tower.
Originally posted by mbkennel
Once structural integrity has been breached (and this happens at the speed of sound in steel, i.e. fast) then all parts of the building collapse.
Originally posted by mbkennel
Why wouldn't it? Gravity is straight down.
"If the 110-story Twin Towers had fallen over, they would have caused an enormous amount of damage to buildings covering many city blocks. But the towers came straight down. Accordingly, the official theory, by implying that fire-produced collapses that perfectly mimicked the collapses that have otherwise been produced only by precisely placed explosives, requires a miracle."