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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
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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You have it backwards. It wasn't an object one sixth crushing something six time larger. The floors above were six times heavier than the floor below it could support. Thus, it collapsed.
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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
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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So what your saying is that each side had 58 columns, and nearly half of one side was destroyed. That's before the fire PLUS the stress of the weight above it.
I mean, seriously, take a look at this picture? How in the world do you expect that not to collapse?
