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CanadianTrump 21 points ago +23 / -2

If you think buildings can collapse like that cause a fire in the top floors, i have a bridge to sell you

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teleomorph 7 points ago +8 / -1

"happened because of some planes."

Building 7 wasn't even hit by a plane.

Yet it fell at free fall speed into it's own footprint after it was announced it was going to collapse even though a skyscraper has never collapsed before nor since due to fires.

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BigHandsome91 13 points ago +14 / -1

Seriously, controlled demolition 100%

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tdwinner2020 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yes they can, and did. Some of the structure was taken out by the planes. Some of the asbestos was knocked off. The burning jet fuel softened the steel just enough, and the weight above did the rest.

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CanadianTrump 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sure lets say it did for the big two, now do building 7

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LostViking1985 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nice moving the goalposts there, like a champ leftie...

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CanadianTrump 1 point ago +1 / -0

Eh? I was clearly asking him to apply his theory to building 7. Whats your iq lol

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CyrusKingOfAnshan 1 point ago +1 / -0

I wonder if you could build a scale model from the same material and actually test it.

I'm not sure you can scale for material stresses though.

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tdwinner2020 2 points ago +2 / -0

You could use butter sticks as steel beams

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tom_machine 1 point ago +2 / -1

You can’t.

Why can fleas jump so far, but elephants cannot?

Scale.

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CyrusKingOfAnshan 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'm not sure that's correct.

If the correct metals exist at the correct thicknesses it might be doable. NASA can simulate asteroid impacts at scale for example.

It might not be possible but it's not that simple.

The constraints of biological life in terms of energy consumption and the strength of biological materials has very little to do with what synthetic materials can do.