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In reply to the discussion: North Tower Exploding... [View all]gyroscope
(1,443 posts)10. Speed and rate of collapse
indicates a controlled demolition, but not a standard one where the structure is imploded and contained more or less into its own footprint.
speed of collapse is much too fast to be explained by pancaking floors. and I use the term collapse loosely because it is not a collapse but is being exploded from the top down at a tremendous rate of speed. what kind of force could create temperatures high enough to melt steel and reduce a modern 110-story skyscraper to a pile of dust within a matter of seconds? only thing I could think of is advanced military-grade explosives to pull off something like that. certainly not an office fire can do that.
An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known as detonations and travel via supersonic shock waves. Subsonic explosions are created by low explosives through a slower burning process known as deflagration. When caused by a man-made device such as an exploding rocket or firework, the audible component of an explosion is referred to as its "report" (which can also be used as a verb, i.e., "the rocket reported loudly upon impact".)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion
sounds exactly like what is taking place in the video. coincidence? I think not
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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