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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Concrete turning into fine powder when crushed under millions of ponds of debris falling the height of a skyscraper is perfectly plausible. A normal collapse doesn't involve the sudden, unplanned structural failure of two 100-story buildings.
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I was a block away from a six story building that was imploded. It was a brick and mortar building. The dust created by the collaspe looked much like what happened that day. I can assure you it was generated by the collaspe, not the small charges that brought the building down.
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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
The south side was damaged by falling debris from the towers, FEMA reports and on-the-scene interviews stated that between a quarter and a third of the depth of the building was "scooped out." When structural columns were damaged, the weight shifted to other columns, overloading them. A pressurized diesel fuel line running to a generator on the fifth floor kept the fire burning long and hot enough not to melt, but to weaken and warp these overloaded columns. Since the building had been evacuated earlier in the day, firefighting efforts were halted because the building was already a total loss and would have had to be demolished.
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Sorry, but there would have been several safety devices that would have cut off the line pumps to the generator. These would have been both electrical, and mechanical safety's.
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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
If it was shot down by the Air Force, what good would it have been to admit it? Although we know that it would have saved lives on the ground, I don't think that people would be willing to accept that our government killed hundreds of civilians. Again, the hero story is something that
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Agreed, people don't want to think the government would sacrifice hundreds of citizens, but that was exactly what they did when the rewrote the EPA's report of the toxic nature of the dust. Removing precautions needed when cleaning up the mess. That act alone will cost thousands of lives, we will not know just how many lives that cost, but it will dwarf the lives lost that day
