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Posted by mojowork_n in General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010)
Tue Nov 24th 2009, 07:18 AM
As is your premise about "little pieces of 'questionable' information" throwing people off the track.

It's actually the Big Picture that most people have trouble seeing.

Take those 3 big buildings that came down in NYC, in 2001. The Two Towers (and the little 47-story mini-tower, Building Seven), all collapsed exactly the same way that buildings pre-wired/pre-set for a controlled demolition would be expected to fall. But in order for any structure to collapse that way -- to fall straight down, without tipping towards one side or another -- extreme care has to be taken to make sure that the stresses on the building weight supports are all perfectly symmetrical, and evenly distributed all the way around.

It's very difficult to believe that happened, with all three of those buildings, since the planes that were flown in to them didn't strike the buildings dead center. The collapse of Building Seven was 'explained' by the presence of a fuel tank, but that was located in a far corner of an upper floor. If the fires in them did actually cause any of these three buildings to topple, it simply defies credibility to suppose that the sequence of failures, in all three events, was so wonderfully well-distributed, that not one of the three tipped over sideways.

That these are the only three multi-story, modern skyscrapers, in the history of the world, to have ever come down -- solely as a result of fire damage -- makes it all the more remarkable.
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