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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Legendary
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Jhill
WTF is up with building 7? A building that fell due to fire? With steel structures? The video of that building falling is unreal. With the top middle caving in like that? Either that video or 911 was staged, I'll tell you that much.
Is it really surprising that a building fell due to fire?
Please tell me that you're not that stupid.
It wasn't fire!
Parts of one of the falling buildings DESTROYED the foundation of WTC7.
Try cutting off the bottom of your right leg, then standing up. Difficult?
Now imagine you're a building.
1. Calm down, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I don't believe that crap.
2. You're wrong. It was the fire weakening the structure that brought it down, it was not the physical damage from falling buildings.
link
"In May 2002, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a report on the collapse, based on a preliminary investigation conducted jointly with the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, under leadership of Dr. W. Gene Corley, P.E.[5] FEMA made preliminary findings that the collapse was primarily caused by fires on multiple stories (which were started by debris from the other two towers), and not by the actual impact damage from the collapse of 1 WTC and 2 WTC."
1. That was a misquote, I didn't mean to direct my comments at you.
2. You could at least mention that the falling WTC1 and 2 did hit the building, at least contributing to the collapse. From the same link:
NIST has released video and still-photo analysis of Building 7 before its collapse that appears to indicate a greater degree of structural damage from falling debris than originally assumed by FEMA. Specifically, the NIST's interim report on 7 WTC displays photographs of the southwest façade of the building that show it to have significant damage. The NIST interim report on 7 WTC details a 10-story gash that existed on the south façade, extending a third of the way across the face of the building and approximately a quarter of the way into the interior, but does not provide any photographs of the damage to the south façade.[2] A unique aspect of the design of 7 WTC was that each outer structural column was responsible for supporting 2,000 square feet (186 square meters) of floor space, suggesting that the simultaneous removal of a number of columns would severely compromise the structure's integrity. Consistent with this theory, news footage shows visible cracking and bowing of the building's east wall immediately before the collapse, which began at the penthouse floors.[2]
The fire is a murky question, and WTC7 was fire protected. Losing 10 stories and a significant chunk of the base is a concrete contributor to the collapse.
Edit: Check pictures here: http://www.popularmechanics.co.../911myths/4213805.html