https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapseChalo said:OK Marty, since you've now found three examples of large steel buildings that fell straight down due to fire, now find one more such example... anywhere in the world... ever.
I have not been able to do that. Thus I have to assume some other mechanism was at work. Things that don't happen, definitely don't happen three times in the same day in the same place.
- Coincidence!Who are these people that find all this stuff in an old film??
What I find a little odd is that not many talked/talks about it. TLG series was very short lived and was really only of interest to X-Files fans, but it was still pretty fresh when 9/11 occurednutspecial said:Amberwolf: That's a cool clip. Quite odd how practically the whole scenario was played on tv a few months prior.
Sure--he was still doing X-Files during and after that, and has done some other stuff since then, according to IMDB, at least.Has anyone heard anything since of/from Chris Carter?
eTrike said:Yep those appear to be concrete buildings, interesting story on ignoring building codes and charges brought.
WTC7 was a steel framed highrise- looks like aluminum frame windows and fires matching what we have seen. A curious observation is of the fires on the opposite side of the building around floor 12 or so- what offices were these and what did they lose during the fire and collapse? (hint: SEC)
Where did the molten steel come from? Those fires we see could not get hot enough as the gov't and we all know.
Has anyone had a chance to picture what free-fall acceleration looks like? Imagine jumping off of a chair onto the ground. now imagine jumping straight up and crushing through the chair just as easily as if you'd jumped onto the ground. This is the difference in physics we're talking here, as if the chair didn't exist to provide any resistance- the building offered no resistance.
The 1700ft. twin towers crush themselves into dust in nearly the same time as a 30 ft. high masonry silo structure shown above collapses via gravity(10 seconds) except that the silo crumbles into bricks. If the silo behaved like the twin towers, it would have fallen in 1.75 seconds and each brick would be shattered into dust and chips.
The example after the silo is a large concrete type structure which has the bottom several floors demolished and allowsthe top of the building to fall- where it lands intact. The towers were much stronger than these buildings. Dozens of videos and photos exist to prove this point, and dozens of stell-framed highrises have caught fire to compare to- many were much longer and hotter yet no other examples are found. The laws of physics speak clearly if you take the time to listen.
The Royal Saudi family, if I am not mistaken.Yep, members of what family?
You have to look at how the buildings were constructed.There have been much hotter and longer fires in steel-framed buildings, so we can look at them as our closest comparison. Any others collapse, even one?
markz said:The fires weakend the structure, there was lots of weight above, plus the plane flew and hit the tower(s) at an angle.
Chalo said:markz said:The fires weakend the structure, there was lots of weight above, plus the plane flew and hit the tower(s) at an angle.
But they didn't fall down at an angle, did they? Like a tree would, or a pole, or a... tower?
eTrike said:How can a building built primarily to withstand the force of gravity crush into itself at free-fall acceleration, the maximum rate possible?
Be skeptical of the stated "facts".