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Originally Posted by Rochard
Sure it was. Remove the support of the floor below, and all hell breaks loose.
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I doubt anything that is one-sixth the mass of another object would be able to crush it down so fast and perfectly, taking out the basements somehow on the way down. Certainly the area above the floor or floors that give would collapse down - but it would stop due to the uncompromised majority of the structure beneath being intact, or it would topple since the chances of a symmetrical and simultaneous failure of all joints and support for that one floor is pretty slim to impossible.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
But it wasn't "one of the supports" that was removed. It was dozens.
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Actually it was about three dozen, say 35 perimeter columns, out of 235 perimeter columns, that were severed or critically damaged. The building wasn't so badly built that removing between 7 and 15% of its structural support would completely annihilate the remaining 85% that was for all intents and purposes, especially considering the relatively low temperatures hypothesized by the official theory, structurally intact.
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