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Look spinner, You are defending your stance about the penthouse pulling the top down.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by K J Gunderson
It looks, to me, as if the central, INTERNAL supporting structure gave way first, and the WEIGHT from above, which was the top floor (and Penthouse portion) and likely several floors beneath began to fall at about the same time.
Since I assumed most people realize that floors in a building are usually attached to the outer walls, it stands to reason to think that a heavy portion, unsupported from below, would start down, thus PULLING on the outside supporting walls.
for eight floors at freefall speed, with the resistance totally removed below,
It looks, to me, as if the central, INTERNAL supporting structure gave way first, and the WEIGHT from above, which was the top floor (and Penthouse portion) and likely several floors beneath began to fall
at about the same time.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by K J Gunderson
Again, not only using more insulting and inflammatory language, you still accuse me by 'paraphrasing' and stating, incorrectly, something I did NOT directly write!
Look spinner, You are defending your stance about the penthouse pulling the top down.
I will not engage you in the thread any longer. It will be for all who read this later to decide.
MY opinion is quite clear, and what I fear, here, is a blatant attempt to incite me to get a warning.
You will not succeed.
Good. Day.
I said, "Good. Day."
Take your argumentative style elsewhere, try it on someone else.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by SPreston
SPreston, it just dawned on me that I was lured into a discussion about WTC 7, by K J Gunderson.
THAT little snippet of my quote, in your post above, refers to THAT building only, and MY opinion and impressions of THAT building's colapse, from another thread.
Sorry, but your response to it is irrelevant, in context.
How does a building FALLING DOWN, eject tons of steel at 70 mph , some
at a distance of 200 yards.
Originally posted by Alfie1
I just got p----d off with people apparently denying that the penthouse was the first visible sign of final collapse.
Sometimes, though, a building is surrounded by structures that must be preserved. In this case, the blasters proceed with a true implosion, demolishing the building so that it collapses straight down into its own footprint (the total area at the base of the building). This feat requires such skill that only a handful of demolition companies in the world will attempt it.
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.