JisPichi [any, any]

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  • JisPichi [any, any]toMovies & TV•What do you folks think of the doc 9/11: the new pearl harbor?
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    1 year ago

    Regarding the physical stuff:

    ...structural engineers state that no building of that caliber has ever been brought down simply by fires...

    No building of that caliber has ever had a 767 fly through it. A significant number of structural members were severed by the impact, and multiple floors of open air paper-filled offices instantly ignited from the giant fuckoff jet-fuel fireball. It's very far from any typical fire or structural damage that a building will experience. Like, look at this, there's a Looney Tunes plane shaped hole cutting through half the columns on the side

    Also the way the building collapses in near free fall...

    Here's a screenshot I put arrows on from some youtube video. I don't have any numbers ready-to-go, but you can clearly see that the main collapse is propagating downward significantly below free fall speeds. That's not to say that it didn't collapse very quickly when compared to other building collapses, because it did, because the building was mostly empty space. Here's a picture from the 70s during construction, before all the floors were rented out and filled with office stuff. People describe the collapse all the time as floors "pancaking" into each other, but it really literally was designed as a stack of concrete rings held apart at the edges by steel toothpicks.

    They even at one point bring up original architect’s statement on the building (obviously way before 9/11 happened) where he specifically states the building could withstand commercial airliner collisions.

    The impact that the original architects were considering then was a 707 with relatively low fuel coming in at low speed for a landing at one of the nearby airports. The planes that hit the towers were 767s impacting with ~2x the mass, ~2x the speed, and much larger fuel tanks. DRASTICALLY more energy was transferred to the buildings than what the designers could have ever accounted for. Also, of COURSE they're going to say that the new state of the art design is totally unsinkab- I mean, uncollapsible.

    Now, I'm not going to claim with 100% certainty that it wasn't a controlled demolition. But. If the buildings WERE secretly rigged with explosives or whatever by the government then it was wasted time and effort, because the planes would have collapsed the towers regardless.