You must be right, I think I visualize how it can work now: heaviest bit (staircases) in the middle tends to fall first, and far away periphery has large torque action preventing tipping over...
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: OT: Whoa, Fido.... > > > Michel Jullian wrote: >> Hi Jed and Steven, >> >> I don't believe in a conspiracy either, but I think it's conceivable >> that distributed explosives were used to minimize the death toll by >> making them fall cleanly (vertically), rather than messily (laterally >> over neighboring buildings) if/when their fall became unavoidable. >> >> Unless there is a non-explosive way to design towers so that even >> when fragilized on one side they will fall vertically? Maybe there >> is, after all it's an > > I've read that with such a structure, in which the center of gravity is > on the centerline, hundreds of feet from the edges, it's difficult to > get the building to fall any way _except_ straight down. > > Tall buildings don't normally tip over; they just collapse. > > Again, so I've read -- I'm certainly no expert (but then, neither's > Steven Jones and that doesn't keep him from shooting off his mouth, so > there you go). > >> >> Michel >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrionWorks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:56 PM >> Subject: Re: [Vo]: OT: Whoa, Fido.... >> >> >>> Greetings Jed, >>> >>>> The person in this video asserts that the Twin Towers were >>>> destroyed on purpose, with explosives. As Ed Storms and I have >>>> pointed out previously, hundreds of the world's best civil >>>> engineers examined the videos and physical evidence from the >>>> Towers, such as the melted steel. This was the most detailed, >>>> expensive and thorough engineering investigation in history. All >>>> of them agreed that the airplanes alone destroyed the structure. >>>> The notion that you could fool all of these experts, or bribe or >>>> frighten them into hiding the truth, is ludicrous. It is utterly >>>> impossible -- utterly absurd. >>> ... >>> >>> I pretty much agree with analysis you and other structural >>> engineers have had to say on this particularly sordid historical >>> event. >>> >>> Unfortunately, as I'm sure you are also well resigned to, your >>> arguments will do little to change the minds of what appear to be a >>> number of vocal participants who remain convinced the WTC buildings >>> were brought down by missiles pre-launched by the jets, combined >>> with a carefully planned conspiracy that had to have been conceived >>> and implemented from within the highest echelons of our government. >>> >>> >>> It seems to me that it's really not about uncovering the awful >>> truths of what actually happened on that awful day of 9/11. It's >>> more about grappling with the belief that we live in a cynical >>> world where intrigue and deception lurks in most of the established >>> institutions that run the daily affairs of our mundane lives, for >>> which many of us may occasionally feel helpless to change. >>> >>> As I have suggested many times in the past: Chose your conspiracies >>> wisely. >>> >>> Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com >>> >>> >>> >> >
