View Single Post
Old 05-10-2006, 11:55 PM   #9 (permalink)
hevusa
Super Moderator
Moderator
 
hevusa's Avatar
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Seattle (grew up around D.C.)
Gender: Male
Posts: 8,013
Country:
Points: 29,896, Level: 99
Points: 29,896, Level: 99 Points: 29,896, Level: 99 Points: 29,896, Level: 99
Level up: 94%, 104 Points needed
Level up: 94% Level up: 94% Level up: 94%
Activity: 12%
Activity: 12% Activity: 12% Activity: 12%
hevusa is offline
Reply With Quote
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jefferson
That's your opinion - and that of other conspiracy theorists.

However, I've seen it explained pretty clearly - even interviewing the architect. Weakening - through extreme heat from burning fuel - of the central support structure would easily cause the building to START to collapse. And it would do so "towards the center". And believe me, once the floors start collapsing, there is simply too much weight to stop.

...but this is a topic for a different forum.

The steel was rated at such a high quality that it would have taken much longer than 2 hours to collapse even with the fuel in mind.
--- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope ---

There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence.