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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
so you would answer that a pound of lead falls faster than a pound of feathers?
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It's amazing how much that doesn't have anything to do with anything. Did the WTC fall in a vaccume? Of course not, so that question really isn't relevent.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Were you expecting some sort of movie type "pause" where the failing columns hold out long enough for another group of people can get out of the building?
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I was expecting it to fall at less than free fall speed. I was also expecting you to be able to have a discussion without massive doses of sarcasm. You do realize that sarcasm hurts your arguments, right?
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Once structures fail they tend not to "hold up" or create any resistence. Otherwise, wouldn't they then need to put charges on ALL floors in order to demo buildings?
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Demolition: the bottom middle gets destroyed first, then the bottom outside, then the middle and top. If the bottom were not destroyed first, the building collapse would meet with resistence and could fall outside of it's footprint. Both towers fell into their footprints.