9/11 Debate

[kruddler]

Some basics;

The WTCs weigh 450,000,000kg each.

To make things easy lets say roughly about 10% of them on average was above the impact point. Reports before the collapse from people trapped inside the upper floors stated that multiple floors had collapsed making escape impossible, so lets keep it simple at 3 floors for a rough height of 10m.

That is 10% of a WTC falling 10m under gravity after structural failure, that 10m impact equates to;
E(Newtons) = mgh
E = 45,000,000kg x 9.81 x 10 E = 1,324,350,000 Newtons

Now actually because I've chosen easy units we can simplify this to an impact force in kilograms, this is because fundamentally the impact force in kilograms is going to be F = E/g.
1,324,350,000 / 9.81 = 135,000,000kg

Nothing we build could have survived, it was like a sledge hammer falling on stack of straws.

As for the collapse on it own footprint, that is bogus as well. Both towers had the facades peel away from the between the 40th and 60th floor, Now by facades we are not talking cladding as some conspiracists like to make out, we are talking full exterior walls, concrete, steel; and glass. Some of those facades directly hit other buildings up to 250m away falling from a height above 40 stories, causing multiple buildings to be damaged or collapse. So much for he claims about falling straight down.

Guesses and estimates.

You want figures and details explanation, watch the videos. You are severly undestimating the depths they have gone too.

One video they show is of the mast on top of the towers. That fell in before the collapse of any other part (only just, by a few frames).
Bring up the design of the top of the tower where the mast was situated and it was on the hat trusses, which was supported by the internal supports......the backbone of the whole thing. (They have detailed the size of these supports and how they get increasingly bigger the further down until they are almost solid steel).

How does the strongest part of it fail, before anything else fails?

Sure, a partial collapse can cause further collapses etc....but that does not happen instantly. If you take out the load bearing structure first, then we see what we see. If the whole structure gradually gets weaker, the smaller sections collapse first, and then maybe it will take the laodbearing structure with it. That did not happen.