Originally Posted by NickPapageorgio

If you watch the new video, at 20:01 when tower 2 has fallen, you can see the center structural columns still intact up to atleast the 60th or 70th floor. That puts to rest the theory that the floors compounding on top of one another could possibly crush a steel ibeam lengthwise. The floors collapsed AROUND the center structure, with the center structure being last to fall. If you know anything about construction materials or about tube structures, which is what tower one and two were, you can see what happened.

When people say, "Well the towers were built to withstand so and so mile per hour winds" and "withstand being hit by a commercial jet" they are talking about sway. Can the building remain upright after taking a hit like that. In which case, the answer is yes. BUT...can each floor withstand the weight of 2 or 3 more floors resting on top of them? No.

The floors on the world trade center were prefab panels that were attached to the main outer structure with angle red iron and rivets. There is only so much shear pressure a rivet, bolt, nut or anything else can take. They were designed to hold more weight than the floor weight ofcourse, due to forseeing large volumes of people, equipment, etc. But they were not designed to withstand the weight and FORCE of overhead floors (consisting of more steel, more concrete, more equipment, not to mention the added weight of a 747) coming down on them. Slamming down on them.

The new video should dispell ANY myths about a controlled demo of those buildings. If you were going to demo a building, you would NOT leave the center support structure uncharged.

The problem still remains however, which members of our own political shit hole let it happen? That's the real question. It's the Pearl Harbor of the 21st century.