Originally posted by esdad71
It did fall to the side. Any of the videos show that. It fell to the weak corner.
No it didn't.
The only leaning it did was in towards it's center. That my friend is a classic example of a controlled demolition, the center columns are dropped first so the outer wall fall inwards. If that is not done the walls would fall outwards as that is the path of least resistance, not inwards where floors and columns etc would stop the walls from toppling.
Look at the pic again and tell me which way it is leaning...
Blasters approach each project a little differently, but the basic idea is to think of the building as a collection of separate towers. The blasters set the explosives so that each "tower" falls toward the center of the building, in roughly the same way that they would set the explosives to topple a single structure to the side. When the explosives are detonated in the right order, the toppling towers crash against each other, and all of the rubble collects at the center of the building. Another option is to detonate the columns at the center of the building before the other columns so that the building's sides fall inward.
science.howstuffworks.com...
You should read that whole article, you might find it interesting.
And please don't try to claim most of the building didn't fall into it's footprint...
That's about as good as it gets...



