mosque in South Tower before and during 9-11
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Facts are remarkably anti-American to some folks. I really thought the whole, 'Reality has a well-known liberal bias' thing was a joke, I'm starting to wonder these days. Another fun fact, Muslims existed before 9/11. I know people who don't realize that.
Distind wrote:
Another fun fact, Muslims existed before 9/11. I know people who don't realize that.
That'd be really funny if it weren't so sad.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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Thanks that link was very illustrative. I'd understood the pancaking domino affect, but not engineering reasoning behind it.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
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I am waiting to find out just how the buildings came down so easilly. At the time I was shocked at how they just collapsed. An airplane is an insignificant thing to a building. Many buildings have been hit by planes, none to my knowledge have collapsed (Soon after 9 11 a plane in Italy hit a uilding, then there was the Dutch plane that crashed into a tower bock in Amsterdam years ago). And given the buildings were supposedly designed to withstand a plane crash. Well, its just very surprising that they came down so fast. I shudder to think that the US gov/big business had a hand in it, but I wouldnt put it past the Americans. Nothing is more important than profit to them.
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I am waiting to find out just how the buildings came down so easilly. At the time I was shocked at how they just collapsed. An airplane is an insignificant thing to a building. Many buildings have been hit by planes, none to my knowledge have collapsed (Soon after 9 11 a plane in Italy hit a uilding, then there was the Dutch plane that crashed into a tower bock in Amsterdam years ago). And given the buildings were supposedly designed to withstand a plane crash. Well, its just very surprising that they came down so fast. I shudder to think that the US gov/big business had a hand in it, but I wouldnt put it past the Americans. Nothing is more important than profit to them.
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fat_boy wrote:
I shudder to think that the US gov/big business had a hand in it, but I wouldnt put it past the Americans. Nothing is more important than profit to them.
You're losing your touch. Surely you can come up with a more effective troll than this?
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Having a degree in engineering and working in destructive testing for several years, the building collapse is as expected. Note that there are many reasons a building will or will not collapse, size of plane, where plane hits, type of construction, etc. Also note I have not done the calculations but have read reports on the collapse and talked to structural engineers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/nyregion/11religion.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=mosque%20in%20south%20tower&st=cse[^] It's funny how over time more information about this whole issue comes out.
That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_
Yep, read about this last week. You know, at first I wasn't sure if the Park51 center was a good idea, but I'm pretty firmly in support of it. Especially if, as they say, it'll have those "prayer spaces" for different religions, not just one for Muslims. Sends a good message of cooperation. I may not subscribe to any religions, but I support the right to practice them, since the same right guarantees my ability NOT to practice any... As the Pagans say, "An it harms none, do what ye will."
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Many people forget about building 7. The building was not hit by a plane, it just had a small fire in it and then suddenly free-fell perfectly without warning.
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And the building which apparently collapsed, and as the reporter was saying that it had collapsed it was actually visible and clearly standing in the background! And also the lack of any bits of the airplane that supposedly crashed into the pentagon, I googled it and found this pic: http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/911/pentagon-aerial.jpg[^] Certainly not a big enough hole for an airplane crash, looks more like a small explosion to me.
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And the building which apparently collapsed, and as the reporter was saying that it had collapsed it was actually visible and clearly standing in the background! And also the lack of any bits of the airplane that supposedly crashed into the pentagon, I googled it and found this pic: http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/911/pentagon-aerial.jpg[^] Certainly not a big enough hole for an airplane crash, looks more like a small explosion to me.
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And the building which apparently collapsed, and as the reporter was saying that it had collapsed it was actually visible and clearly standing in the background!
Yeah, I seen that. :doh:
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
And the building which apparently collapsed, and as the reporter was saying that it had collapsed it was actually visible and clearly standing in the background!
Yeah, I seen that. :doh:
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I saw the paper posted by Ravel, but I had heard something different. I had heard it was designed to withstand a 747 size impact (which that paper seems to suggest it wasn't). What I saw on the news afterwards was that it was designed properly, but not executed properly. The problem, as was reported, was with the insulation. Instead of using the insulation in the designs, it was constructed with spray-on insulation. The force of the impact caused a shockwave that literally blew all of the insulation off. This left the structural metal without any heat protection which lead to the weakening of the members and eventually the collapse of the building. But I'm sure there are other reports out there as to the cause of the collapse.
It was designed to withstand the impact of a 707 hitting it. Not a 767 and the fire resulting from it being fully laden with fuel. Contrary to what "super engineer" fat_boy might think, the tools to do that kind of analysis adequately when the Towers were designed did not exist. Considerable advancement has been made in finite element analysis in the intervening years, both from a structural standpoint but what is now becoming known as "multi-physics" where you can analyze many effects combined.
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Riggggghhtt....... Go study civil engineering and come back in five years.
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Go study civil engineering and come back in five years.
You mean like Youngs modulus of elasticity and polar moments of inertia of I beams? You really are a typical internet fuckwit sometimes: I used to be a structural engineer and designed steel work for buildings in the stone cladding business, Some of the project I wored on included stanstead airport and the broadgate and moorgate developments in london. As I said, I would really like to know how those buldings came down so easilly.
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fat_boy wrote:
I shudder to think that the US gov/big business had a hand in it, but I wouldnt put it past the Americans. Nothing is more important than profit to them.
You're losing your touch. Surely you can come up with a more effective troll than this?
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This was proposed soon after 9/11 and it makes sense. It would explain why the floors pancaked down on each other. What I dont get is how the building, being designed to withstand an inpact by a 707 failed in this way. It shouldt have. I also think that having floor not joined to the skin makes for an immensely weak structure. Itrs a crap design IMO.
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Having a degree in engineering and working in destructive testing for several years, the building collapse is as expected. Note that there are many reasons a building will or will not collapse, size of plane, where plane hits, type of construction, etc. Also note I have not done the calculations but have read reports on the collapse and talked to structural engineers.
The buildings were supposedly built to take an impact from a 707, a similar sized plane to those which hit the buildings. The design was poor. Not to tie the floors to the walls properly immensely weakens the structure. But how about WT7? How on earth did that collapse? It was almost untouched. A small fire, the impact of bulding debris. Many other buildings suffered similar fates that day without falling down.
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Oh, hush. No-one wants the facts when they interfere with a good conspiracy fantasy. ;) :-D
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This was proposed soon after 9/11 and it makes sense. It would explain why the floors pancaked down on each other. What I dont get is how the building, being designed to withstand an inpact by a 707 failed in this way. It shouldt have. I also think that having floor not joined to the skin makes for an immensely weak structure. Itrs a crap design IMO.
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fat_boy wrote:
What I dont get is how the building, being designed to withstand an inpact by a 707 failed in this way. It shouldt have.
The design didn't consider the fireproofing on the steel beams being blown off, which it was.
fat_boy wrote:
I also think that having floor not joined to the skin makes for an immensely weak structure. Itrs a crap design IMO.
Unless you're secretly a structural engineer, your opinion in this matter isn't exactly worth much. You could put any really great design through very extreme conditions and watch it fail and then comment on how crappy the engineers are. Immensely weak structure? I think the towers did a fantastic job considering they had enormous jets flown into them at high speed and were practically hollowed out with fire.
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It was designed to withstand the impact of a 707 hitting it. Not a 767 and the fire resulting from it being fully laden with fuel. Contrary to what "super engineer" fat_boy might think, the tools to do that kind of analysis adequately when the Towers were designed did not exist. Considerable advancement has been made in finite element analysis in the intervening years, both from a structural standpoint but what is now becoming known as "multi-physics" where you can analyze many effects combined.
Once you agree to clans, tribes, governments...you've opted for socialism. The rest is just details.
I left structural engineering in 1989, IT pays a lot better, bur I still dont accept that a building designed in the days of paper and pencils to withstand an impact of a 707 should collapse so easilly. It was either a really bad design, or really bad implementation (and bad imnplementation is often the cause of bulding failure). I would also like to know how WTC 7 collapsed when other buldings in the vicinity, more heavilly afected, didnt.
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fat_boy wrote:
What I dont get is how the building, being designed to withstand an inpact by a 707 failed in this way. It shouldt have.
The design didn't consider the fireproofing on the steel beams being blown off, which it was.
fat_boy wrote:
I also think that having floor not joined to the skin makes for an immensely weak structure. Itrs a crap design IMO.
Unless you're secretly a structural engineer, your opinion in this matter isn't exactly worth much. You could put any really great design through very extreme conditions and watch it fail and then comment on how crappy the engineers are. Immensely weak structure? I think the towers did a fantastic job considering they had enormous jets flown into them at high speed and were practically hollowed out with fire.
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The buildings were supposedly built to take an impact from a 707, a similar sized plane to those which hit the buildings. The design was poor. Not to tie the floors to the walls properly immensely weakens the structure. But how about WT7? How on earth did that collapse? It was almost untouched. A small fire, the impact of bulding debris. Many other buildings suffered similar fates that day without falling down.
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fat_boy wrote:
But how about WT7? How on earth did that collapse? It was almost untouched. A small fire, the impact of bulding debris. Many other buildings suffered similar fates that day without falling down.
Almost untouched? It had a tremendous gash in the side, about a quarter of the height of the building. But, like the twin towers, it wasn't the holes that toppled it - it was the fire. The gash lined up with the fuel system in the building, causing a horrific inferno. WTC7 collapsed for the same reason that the twin towers did, unlike the other buildings that failed to collapse.
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
Unless you're secretly a structural engineer
Guess what... I used to design steel work for buildings.
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fat_boy wrote:
Guess what... I used to design steel work for buildings.
Then you should be able to guess at how strong bare steel is when it's been exposed to 500-600 degree temperatures for an hour or so. How many of your buildings could survive an impact like those on 9-11?
