On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
> BTW, when I was in school for architecture, I had one of the the architects > > that worked on the WTC buildings as an instructor for awhile. The way > the > > towers came down was exactly as they were designed to do. However, it > was > > several centuries earlier than expected. The buildings were designed to > be > > structurally sound to last for about 1000 years. Also designed to take a > > hit from a 707, not a fully fueled 767. The fact that it remained > upright > > from the impact itself is testimony to that. > > > > Fred > Here's the $64 Billion question....how did those Navy Seals (or whatever > demolition company the guv'ment hired) know how to drop a 110 Story > Building that was constructed like the WT Center was? What part of > "skill set" is involved in that? > True. Nobody has/had ever attempted to demolish a building of that size yet that I know of. No way anyone had the "experience" to go by. My instructor also brought in a couple of the structural steel analysis books for a couple of the floors. These books contained all the calculations to determine the steel members size and connection requirements. The ground floor book was over a 1 foot thick (several thousand pages I would guess, but probably less than Obamacare <g>) while the 110th floor book was about a quarter inch thick. He said the books for the other floors pretty much scaled between the two, depending on the floor. > I'm not saying the Seals couldn't give 'er a good go, but, dang! They're > GOOD! Most of the stuff they're trained to destroy just kind of flies in > all directions and makes a big mess. But not these guys...they're almost > as good as Bruce Willis and those oil-well drilling guys who flew into > space and blew up that Earth-killer asteroid! Hey! Maybe they were > involved! > > Where was Bruce Willis on 9/11/01????!!! > > Oh wait, that was fantasy. > > Like the "Truthers" version of things. Fred --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
