If it happend in an Earthquake prone country like Japan, it probably wouldn't have collapsed the buildings... but the design as it was,,, was not capable of handling the weight of the floors above crashing onto it. and the structures probably were not designed to handle the amount of flex that the crashes would have produced, so its likely that the crashs produced massive cracks all through the superstucture. the top ten or 15 floors collapsed from the plane damage, and the massive weight (we are talking about hundreds of thousands of tons) hit the floor below that one, which naturally collapsed as well, then that floors rubble added to the weight that hit the floor below that one, and the further down it got, the faster they collapsed.... It seems logical to read it like that, but I must admit that I was surprised as well, it didn't look like they were going to collapse until they did... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Greer Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2001 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: [LINUX_Newbies] USA TERROR ATTACK!!!! On Tuesday 11 September 2001 23:07, you wrote: > By the way, I'm not comparing this to college football. I'm sorry, but I was/am a bit frustrated at people's reactions to the Palestineans <sp?>. What they're doing is dispicable, but that doesn't mean we should want their deaths. > I think these terrorists should be feeling the same way right > about now. I don't think they thought this attack through well enough to > ponder the response that will surely follow. Either they didn't really think of the consequences or they don't care. A war could be exactly what they wanted. Who knows. Watching the tower crumble to the ground sends chills down my spine everytime I see it. I don't think hardly anyone would have thought a plane crashing into the upper portion of a skyscraper could cause it to implode. A news channel tonight had an engineer on and even he was surprised. Matt
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