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Originally Posted by mikesouth
i never fully bought the controlled demolition idea...my guess....and thats what it is, is that the buildings were designed so that if they failed structurally they would fall the way they did....that said there are a LOT of unanswered question around 9/11....I think the gov knew more than they are letting on and I am not buying that it all happened because of a handfull of guys with boxcutters....the people flying those planes were far more proficient than simple cessna training.....lots of unanswered questions around the pentagon crash and I believe that the USAF shot the plane over PN out of the sky plane (pardon the pun) and simple
Its doubtful any of us alive will ever know what REALLY happened but there IS more to it than we will ever know
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The way the buildings fell - including WTC 7 - is "odd" and sure do look like a demolition.
I've never read the buildings were "designed" to fall "this way"; I don't believe any buildings are designs to fall in a certain way. Buildings aren't designed to fall. In the case of the World Trade Center towers, they were designed to withstand an impact of a large plane. This makes sense; During the 1940s a large plane slammed into the Empire State Building. However, the towers were built to withstand an impact from a plane in the 1960s and not the planes we have today.
If you read about how the towers were constructed, it's rather interesting. The towers were build around the core which housed the elevators. If I recall correctly, the floors more or less "hung" from this core. The outer shell also helped to support each floor. This design was used to maximize open floor space - No need for supports. When the core was destroyed from the impact of the plane which also damaged the shell, there was nothing to support the floors. Eventually the upper floors fell, and when they fell they fell down. They wouldn't fall sideways and tip over.