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Originally posted by: SP33Demon
16/110 = 14.5%, looks like a 9 yr old's math just ownts you! :roll:Originally posted by: foghorn67
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
It takes time and energy absorption to break a weld, so right there the evidence isn't adding up.
You mean all that time when it was on fire lit up with tens of thousands of pounds in jet fuel. All that time when you have a major part of an external supported tower missing. You have 35-40% of the building's weight on thin air and shattered concrete and steal.
It DOES NOT TAKE A PHYSICS MAJOR to realize what happened.
It takes a 9 year old playing Jenga to figure out it can be done without explosives. A structural engineer would just confirm what the 9 year old said.
9 year old ownts you!
Physics says the building should have taken 0.5-1s per floor to fall. 94/2 = 47 seconds, not 8.4.
did you take into account that every floor feels even greater force than the last? it's like a tank running over a car - a tank doesn't even slow down because it's so massive and powerful.
let's say you're on the 50th floor. the 50th floor will experience a load of 61MG (M= mass of floor, G = gravity) because you have the 60 floors above it, plus the force of gravity on the floor itself. likewise, the 49th floor will experience 62MG, 48th 63MG, and so on. therefore, every floor will break more easily than the last.