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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
There's nothing about any buildings losing their support "in the center". Even if that did happen, somehow, buildings would still tend to tilt to one or the other side before falling.
If the top 25 floors started falling it isn't "common knowledge" that the bottom 75 would succumb - that's actually against basic physics.
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Your wrong. The WTC design was special. Each floor had a center core and then was open all the way to the edge of the building. In a way, each floor was "suspended" from the outer edge to the inner core, which allowed each floor to have a huge amount of open space. The problem is when one floor fell, it fell onto the floor below it, which in turn fell on the floor below that, and so forth. When a ten ton floor drops onto the floor below it, it's only common sense that the floor below it is going to give way.
It just pancaked.
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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
In physics, the bottom 75% should resist the top 25% even if it doesn't "support" it - in other words that top 25 should have toppled, not crushed.
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Maybe. But not when the "support" has been impacted by an airplane and the resulting fire. If you were to carefully remove 25% of the support for each floor, you might have a chance. But if you tear out 25% of the floor across four or five floors by ramming it with an airplane, well, all bets are off.