Well, only if the frame of the building held. Everything I've read and seen claims that the Tower only had an external frame, there was no internal frame, and the collapse occurred because the center of the building couldn't withstand the forces above it because of the loss of the structural integrity, which caused the building to collapse from the center, and the force of the collapse of the center brought the steel frame down.
I'm not a structural engineer but that makes sense to me. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:45 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Loose Change > > yeah well, I haven't fact checked it or listened to the whole thing, > but the latter part of it sounds a lot like a physics lecture. One > disappointment -- I googled their "MIT engineer" and while he has a > good physics background he is currently a doctor. Not the most > overwhelming of credentials, but as he said, the laws of nature that > the current version do not take into account are rather elementary. It > is true that you would expect a building that's been struck on one > side to fall over, not down. I'm a little more concerned that the > film's producer would subtly misrepresent him that way, and it makes > me wonder a bit about the rest of it. > > - I for one am certainly not prepared to belive anything of the kind > without a great deal more fact checking that I am prepared to do right > now. And supposing it were true, what then? The American public seems > prepared to accept pretty much anything that doesn't interfere with > their ability to sip a latte while driving their Hummers to work. > > On 8/22/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure, I didn't listen to the 2nd one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213899 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
