Re: Star wars ride again

2004-12-16 Thread Harry Veeder
Title: Re: Star wars ride again I am no expert, but I suspect that by the 1960's many skyscrapers were being engineered so they could be easily and neatly demolished. Evidently the floors of the towers were designed to fall like dominoes if the vertical loading exceeding some critical value

Re: Star wars ride again

2004-12-15 Thread RC Macaulay
Some people in this group are simply too observant..like leaking pen. You noticedthe video showed a slight "tilt" as the 2nd tower began to collapse.Just my point.. IF.. the twins came down as witnessed ..AND.. the explanation was that the fire section imploded ..WHICH IN TURN.. permitted