Speaking of huge lateral forces... if them walls were bending in and that caused the collapse then just why did stuff going flying out the sides with pretty good velocity as it started to collapse?
I suppose it's a little late for the experiment but i think if you leaned one of the WTC towers over you could go till it'd be hitting the surrounding buildings and still wouldn't have broken apart. Kind of like a Leaning Tower of Manhattan. Not sure if you could lay it on it's side, but maybe, these weren't built out of coat hangers.
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