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So what's the big deal about the BBC reporter's words?
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You don't just walk around and make statements about things for no reason at all. Or maybe you do: "That car is going to crash into that truck that we don't know is on the other side of the hill."
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So the reporter was wrong. Who cares? What's laughable is that you make that into a big deal.
Where was this guy anyway? In NY watching the scene, or in London?
Pretty weak, to try to use something like this to support your pet theory.
It remains the fact that I remember hearing a lot of talk about bldg 7 the afternoon of 9/11 by reporters on the television channels.
"They expect building 7 to fall anytime", "firemen have been told to stay away from building 7," etc etc.
So there's no reason for you to act like it was some big surprise.
freefall speed of collapse, 3x. yeah, 10 seconds quarter mile high to hit the ground (ZERO resistance from existing massive steel columns)....
I'm confused. what are you saying here?
the towers were designed to withstand impacts from 2 or 3 707 jets simultaneously. (there are 4 engines on a 707)
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are were supported by 200 vertical steel columns around the perimeter, and several massive core columns that rise from the foundation to the roof.
on the day, it was as if they did not even exist, as the buildings fell at freefall speed (32 feet per second squared) the roofs meeting the ground in just ten seconds
there was zero resistance from these supporting columns, which means that incindiarys and explosives had to be used to accomplish such a quick fall
Okay, I got your argument now. Go ahead and support that with the relevant physics or static force diagrams, if you really believe it.
What you really have to prove is that after the 88th floor (IIRC) collapsed due to fire, then the weight of the floors above coming down at the speed when it hit the next floor was insufficient to pop the supporting structures.
A shearing of a beam would occur at the speed of sound in steel which would be essentially instantaneous, and certainly not result in some slow-motion collapse such as you seem to be arguing for. Once some of the potential energy is converted to kinetic, there is so much force in action that no sort of "slow motion collapse" is conceivable.