Re: 9/11 Debate
Reply #125 –
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 if we keep it simple 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
The truth is though, that the collapsing structures absorb a lot of that energy, but it is the available energy.
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 between the 40th and 60th floor, they peeled outwards like a banana. 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 (actually a better description is launched ballistically) from a height above 40 stories, causing multiple buildings to be damaged or collapse. So much for claims about falling straight down, and just this alone would have had significant structural effects on surrounding buildings, it is probably a miracle more were not damaged!