"Jeff" wrote in message
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No steel framed building has ever collapsed by fire EVER! The owner of
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That "is" the whole point. The WTC was NOT a typical steel
frame
building. Most Hi Rises make use of huge steel girders at there center
and
encase these girders in tons of rebar and and more tons of concrete to
form
massive support columns. Then floors are laid, attached to these massive
columns. The only way to bring "them" down is to take out the support
columns. The WTC bldgs. were of a totally different design. They built
those bldgs. using a technique where the exterior walls "were" built as
the
supporting structure. The bldgs. had no massive center columns to fall
back
on. Once you take out a huge section ( by a large airplane ) you remove
the support from everything above it. And then its just a matter of time
before things start falling. Its really too bad the bldgs were built that
way.
If they had been conventional design, they would have had very bad
damage to a couple floors, but they wouldnt have fallen. And the death
toll would have been much, much less.



Jeff

Did you ever see the pictures of the WWII bomber that hit the Empire State
Building? It was bad but, just as you said, the building didn't fall and
the damage was repaired without too much trouble.

Hey wait, maybe that was an "inside job" too!

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and ridicule" - Al Franken



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