It's most likely that many tons of rubble from the towers entered the lower floors of that building at a fairly high velocity and took out the supporting pillers. Ken
At 03:34 PM 9/12/01 -0400, you wrote: >Marshall Dudley wrote: > >> I am going to try to get some better looks when they replay the collapse. I >> think the center might have collapsed from the bottom, and the loss of support >> at the top once the center support was gone caused the outer shell to collapse >> from the top down. > >OK, I went to my TiVo and replayed what I had several times. The two main building >could have done what was indicated above, or it could have simply collapsed from >the top down (although I still don't see how that could happen if properly designed >and built). There was a big explosion just preceding one of the tower's collapse >that could be heard on the tape I was watching. What exploded? > >But the video on the 3rd building is VERY interesting. It absolutely collapsed >from the bottom. It looks exactly like when they demolish a building. Thing is, it >was built conventionally without the outer walls being self supported. And it fell >exactly like I have seen lots of others fall from demolition. Why? It makes no >sense. If supports gave way, then that part of the building would have fallen, and >the rest either stood, or fallen toward the area that failed. But the entire >building fell at once, IN ONE PIECE, as if all supports had been blown out at the >same time. I am virtually certain that building was blown. I can think of no other >way it could have fallen the way it did otherwise. > >As far as the towers, the jury is still out on that one, could be either way. > >Marshall > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
