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In reply to the discussion: North Tower Exploding... [View all]gyroscope
(1,443 posts)54. Its still standing
...a day after the fire was put out.
again, where is the collapse?
it doesn't even look like a steel-frame building. I don't see any exposed steel columns. a short building with only 5 or 6 floors doesn't need to be built with a steel frame anyway. it looks like a pretty flimsy structure, and yet it still stands after being gutted on all floors by an all-consuming fire.
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Watch the video. A large section of the building collapsed from the fire alone. n/t
cpwm17
Aug 2014
#53
Of course it free fell, with the help of all the floors above where the planes hit.
IronGate
Aug 2014
#7
"I'm not the one, however, making mistakes about fundamental physics concepts." Yes you are!
wildbilln864
Aug 2014
#65