Reply #169: That's an eight story building... [View All]

[jberryhill]

Which appears to have failed near the bottom on one side. That is not a 100 story building which failed at around the 80th floor.

If you watch the first WTC tower collapse video, the top twenty floors or so DO rotate a bit in the direction of - surprise - the big hole where the plane went in, as the structure buckles at the point of - surprise - the big hole where the plane went in. As it rotates in the forward direction, the "hinge" gives way at the back (having been stressed by the rotation beyond the breaking point). From there, the top chunck has nowhere to go other than straight down, with each successive floor unable to support that kind of impact.

Experts do spend a lot of effort into blowing out the foundation and chopping up a building with carefully placed timed charges. The system used in the WTC towers was pretty good, considering that it had to survive the impact and explosion of an airplane, and still manage to go off right at the point where the crack pilot managed to fly that plane.

What I really don't get is "what do you need the planes for?" If you are going to go through all of that effort to run a conspiracy involving loads of potential leaky people, then why not just say that terrorists blew up the buildings? It would have looked pretty damned stupid if the guys who where supposed to hi-jack and crash the planes missed the buildings. What was the backup plan for that?