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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2007, 08:02:09 PM »
So what do you think? It fell on its own, or was demolished by someone on the ground ?
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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2007, 08:28:19 PM »
So what do you think? It fell on its own, or was demolished by someone on the ground ?

Neither; it fell because of fire damage.
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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2007, 09:34:29 PM »
So what do you think? It fell on its own, or was demolished by someone on the ground ?

Neither; it fell because of fire damage.

Sorry, that's what I meant. 
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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2007, 10:22:47 PM »
I don't know , but right next door one of the worlds largest buildings has collapsed , might have shaken the foundation a bit.

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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2007, 11:51:53 AM »
I don't know , but right next door one of the worlds largest buildings has collapsed , might have shaken the foundation a bit.

It was actually attached; when the towers collapsed, they took a chunk of building 7 with them. Then the fire damaged it past the point it could support itself.
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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2007, 12:31:09 PM »
It was actually attached; when the towers collapsed, they took a chunk of building 7 with them. Then the fire damaged it past the point it could support itself.

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But it was not visibly on fire, there was little or no Jet fuel in Building 7, and it would be more logical if the building collapsed at an angle facing where it was connected.

Instead, it all seems to have collapsed evenly on all four corners.

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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2007, 12:34:58 PM »
But it was not visibly on fire, there was little or no Jet fuel in Building 7, and it would be more logical if the building collapsed at an angle facing where it was connected.

Instead, it all seems to have collapsed evenly on all four corners.

Collapsing evenly is what steel structures do.

And where was all that smoke coming from if there was no fire?
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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2007, 08:39:02 PM »
What I saw looks more like the usual debris more than smoke.

And steel frame buildings seem to do this, because most of those we have seen collapse were deliberatly loaded on each corner with structured charges.
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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2007, 08:45:08 PM »
And steel frame buildings seem to do this, because most of those we have seen collapse were deliberatly loaded on each corner with structured charges.

Except, of course, those that collapse from fire damage. And those collapse evenly as well because of the design; all parts of the building are tied together with steel. When it goes down, the whole structure collapses inward on itself. That's exactly what you want to have happen in a city. You don't want one building to take down a whole block by collapsing sideways.
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Re: Building seven collapse film
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2007, 08:49:39 PM »
Actually, Xavier, it has much to do with the structure of the buildings. Massive fire weakens the structure as a whole, as do explosives at set off at the structural supports for a building. So a massive fire would cause the building to collapse evenly. This has happened with other steel structures that have suffered massive fire damage.
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