They just reported on television that the steel supports were designed to
withstand a bad fire for 2 hours, then they melt.
Nick
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>From: "Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: The WTC constructions
>Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2001, 6:14 PM
>
> Is there anyone among you more technically (construction) egineered that to
> a layman can explain why the buildings actually collapsed. I mean
constructionwise.
> Is the sheer weight, the pressure from the collapsed top floors falling
> down on the ones below, enough to cause the total collapse?
> Is there anything in the way they are constructed that would have prevented
> the buildings from falling over (like falling on surrounding areas)?
>
> (However, we can be grateful for the amount of time it actually did
> withstand before collapsing, which probably gave some thousands (?) of
> people the chance to get out alive from there alive.)
>
> Lasse
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