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RichardNoggin 3 points ago +3 / -0

Honest question, how does a jet strip a coating? How then would that one section where the jet fuel was burning then soften the steel so many floors below that the building would collapse like an implosion? I would think that much like the videos of which you speak it would cause the building to lean and topple like a melting candlestick instead of spontaneously implode right into it's own footprint. Just some honest curiosity. I don't know one way or the other but I have a brain and logic and I've never understood this.

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jstressman 1 point ago +4 / -3

How do you think a jet slamming into I-beams covered in basically spray foam would strip that coating off? Seems self explanatory.

Further, you had that specific floor fail, which allowed the weight of the entire rest of the upper portion of the building to drop a full story, smashing into the the floor two stories below, causing a cascading failure as that massive upper weight dropped and slammed into each consecutive floor going down, made easier since the floors were basically a large hollow tube with a central pillar of elevators, with the floors stacked like pancakes on a stick inside a tube. Once one floor failed and the entire upper portion of the building fell and slammed into the lower one, it just pancaked as it fell, basically into the opening of the tube below, which in turn damaged the buildings around it, etc.

From the NIST study;

Based on its comprehensive investigation, NIST concluded that the WTC towers collapsed because: (1) the impact of the planes severed and damaged support columns, dislodged fireproofing insulation coating the steel floor trusses and steel columns, and widely dispersed jet fuel over multiple floors; and (2) the subsequent unusually large number of jet-fuel ignited multi-floor fires (which reached temperatures as high as 1,000 degrees Celsius, or 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit) significantly weakened the floors and columns with dislodged fireproofing to the point where floors sagged and pulled inward on the perimeter columns. This led to the inward bowing of the perimeter columns and failure of the south face of WTC 1 and the east face of WTC 2, initiating the collapse of each of the towers. Both photographic and video evidence—as well as accounts from the New York City Police Department aviation unit during a half-hour period prior to collapse—support this sequence for each tower.

https://www.nist.gov/topics/disaster-failure-studies/faqs-nist-wtc-towers-investigation

See point 6.

Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzInIjD6nKw

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OG_Phantom_ [S] -2 points ago +3 / -5

you're a special kind of down syndrome if you think 400 degree jet fuel in open air is gonna impact steel fucking beams

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Tenet -1 points ago +1 / -2

https://youtu.be/PK_iBYSqEsc

They don't have to melt, they just have to weaken below capacity, warping sagging, and putting loads on connection points that they are not designed to take.

Have you taken any courses in Structural Engineering?

Consider "Simplified Mechanics and Strength of Materials" by James Ambrose.