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Originally posted by Varemia
Originally posted by psikeyhackr
So why should I give a damn about your talking about bolts when it is something out of your head. Just like vertical on vertical collapse. You talk nonsense and then expect a response like it was intelligent.
So isn't your model completely pointless, then? If you are complaining that no one even knows the exact construction of the towers, then should we all just give up on debating what happened? You seem to have come to some kind of conclusion, or else you wouldn't constantly be riffing with others on this site.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
Well lets see it was HIT mid elevation AND mid core high up were the core steel was thinner so YES!
You can regard my model as pointless all you want. I DON'T GIVE A DAMN.
I have communicated with plenty of people who disagree with you.
Every skyscraper must hold itself up.
That means the designers had to figure out the distribution of strength which affected the distribution of steel which affected the distribution of mass.
Mass had to be moved and connections had to be broken for the north tower to come down.
So how could only a gravitational collapse make that happen mostly within 18 seconds, which is only double free fall time. The remains of the core took another 7 seconds.
But I sorted my washers to be bottom heavy and I had to double and triple the loops toward the bottom to hold the accumulated weight under static load. So energy was required to crush those loop so that slowed the falling mass.
The speed of the so called collapse, supposedly by gravity only, has NEVER BEEN EXPLAINED.
What has stopped any engineering school from building a model that can completely collapse?
What is stopping you?
All you can do is talk and then act like I am under some obligation to take you seriously. I don't care if you believe your own talk. At least I have models which cannot defy the Laws of Physics.
Originally posted by hooper
Boatloads of common sense.
Originally posted by hooper
Nope, just the connections had to have their maximum capacities exceeded, gravity did the rest.
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by wmd_2008
Well lets see it was HIT mid elevation AND mid core high up were the core steel was thinner so YES!
You will say anything it seems, even if it contradicts what you've said before. Just make it up as you go eh?
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by psikeyhackr
Right your model should be like the towers so since you LOVE it so much do the rebuild
1) Washers inside the paper tubes
2) Washers held in position with the equivalent of angle cleats
THEN see what happens
Originally posted by ANOK
Good point, which begs a question...
Do you think the connections were stronger than the columns?