reply to post by Bob Sholtz

I thought you were done.
I'm not sure if I should chastise your lack of integrity, or praise your willingness to debate. Unfortunately, this is going exactly as predicted.
I'd hoped for a bit of a surprise.
both wtc 1 and 2 were designed to withstand a 707 plane impact, and possibly multiple impacts. the 767 is larger by a 10 foot wingspan, which
is negligible. the 707 actually has a higher top speed.
No building is designed to withstand an intentional impact. There is, mind you, a difference. An aircraft experiencing instrument failure and
reduced visibility due to fog is not going to be heavy on the throttle.
Further, the 767 has a 75% increase in empty weight (for all comparable models) over the 707 and a 50% improvement in maximum takeoff weight (or
better, depending upon the model).
You are not, seriously, going to suggest that the WTC was designed to survive an impact of a 100-160 ton airliner (the range of available 707
models... which one was it designed to withstand? the 100 ton or 160 ton variety?) at over 500 knots.
it's very simple. it has been done to death, which makes it sad that you don't understand yet. an equal and opposite reaction is had by the
colliding object. you hit something, it resists you with the same force you impart.
The debate generally involves people who know what they are talking about versus people who have no clue what they are talking about. The problem is
that the ignorant are ignorant of their own ignorance.
It resists you up to the maximum its material characteristics allow. Don't try to sound smart, here.
ergo, assuming the same resistance, materials, and surface area of impact, the one with more mass will win. that is newton's third law, and
how it pertains to the wtc collapse. how could the lower mass upper floors destroy more than their weight without themselves being destroyed? you'd
either have to increase their durability beyond what is possible, or remove resistance for the math to work out.
.... Oh.
I
have been out of this segment of the forum for a while. I thought we were going to start having issues with how fast the WTC fell, again
(and how it seemingly defied gravity). Thanks - I have been surprised. I had simply over-estimated the intelligence used to form your argument.
Have you ever seen a house of cards fall, son? You slip up placing a few cards on top, then they fall and slam into the 'floor' (ceiling of the
layer below it) and cause the entire works to come crashing down as the layers below begin to crumble under the shock of having to suddenly support a
dynamic load.
that isn't what we saw, as the outer walls were destroyed too, and therefore offered less resistance than what was needed. can you provide any
examples of a collapse that stayed within it's footprint when it wasn't controlled demolition?
The outer walls were pulled inward by the mass falling through the center. This can clearly be seen in the videos of the collapse. What we see
collapsing on the outside is actually lagging the material falling on the inside by a few floors.
Further - show me a building that is designed like the WTC. It was a unique construction done to support the extremes of engineering.
Controlled demolitions require hundreds to -thousands- of individually placed and timed explosives. A building the size of the WTC would -never- have
been brought down using sequenced explosives. It would have been dismantled piece-by-piece, for the obvious reasons involved with collapsing such a
large building, but also because the standard practices for bringing down buildings with explosives is time-consuming. Each pillar is pre-cut to
ensure a shaped charge shears the support as intended, when it is intended, and in a safe direction (so people a mile away don't get hit with a chunk
of steel).
You don't have the slightest clue what goes into a controlled demolition, yet persist with this theory on the WTC based on your inability to conceive
of how a plane flying into one of the world's largest towers is sufficient to bring it down.
actually the temperatures were hot enough to turn metal yellow. a temperature beyond what jet fuel can achieve. metal color=temperature.
Just about any hydrocarbon fuel can reach temperatures in excess of 2,000 degrees Celsius. That's why we use titanium and high-temperature metals in
jet engines with active cooling systems in the turbines - jet engines will melt without cool air being forced out of the blades.
Further - all metals do not melt at the same temperature. Aluminum will melt long before steel will.
i have, but i think the government murdering it's own citizens for the gain of a few elites and the justification for war is a much bigger
issue.
Right... we needed 9/11 for that.