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I was an engineering student at West Point when the towers came down. I just gotten done with a civil engineering class and went to law class to watch the second first tower come tumbling down. I marvelled at the time how a huge skyscraper could collapse straight down through the path of greatest resistance and have such a small footprint. Buildings just don't do that when they fail. They fail asymmetrically! They fall over like a tree does- not straight down!
Building 7 is particularly damning as headshake indicates. The property owner, Silverstein, admits that they "pulled" the building on the very same day that the towers fell. "Pull" is slang for a controlled detonation. That means it was already wired with explosives. You can't just pull off a controlled det in such short notice. It takes a great deal of prep. Plus if you watch the video, the building crimps in the middle, so that it will properly implode. Definitely a controlled det. Look at other videos of buildings being imploded. A wide building will always crimp before it implodes, so that it collapses INWARD! If the Twin Towers were going to fall, it would be more likely that would fail on one side through steel fatigue, and the top would twist off, or the collapse would start at the greatest point of loading- at the foundation. Not in the middle stories of the building. It's totally bass-ackwards!
This is an excellent video that shows your exact points and how the towers came down. It also shows one floor exploding before it was covered by the debris fall.
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Originally Posted by cptcannabis
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