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Originally Posted by cyrnel
Will, I'm not a mechanical engineer but I've seen enough to know a layman's common sense can lead to flawed assumptions.
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It's simple physics. Engines don't turn into jello upon impact. Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion. A massve object collides with another object at a great speed, but doesn't leave one mark at all. I can chip away at brick with a small hammer moving relatievly slowly. Why is it that a very heavy engine that is moving at hundreds of miles per hour doesn't leave any record of a collision? Well Occam's razor tells us that the simplest explaination is that there were no large engines that struck the wall.
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Originally Posted by cyrnel
I'd like to see a simulation or explanation for how a large jet behaves in a frontal impact.
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Honestly, there are too many variables to account for to know with 100% certianty. Here's what we do know:
-At least some part of the object that hit the Pentagon was able to punch out holes through not one, but many of the thick, reinforced walls, making it's way all the way into the inner ring
- The engines from the plane made no holes:
- The engines from the plane were the most dense and heavy part of the plane