Jed Rothwell wrote: > So you say, but the people at Controlled Demolition say otherwise. I have read > books and seen documentaries from them. They make a very good case for that, > based on straightforward classical physics. So forgive me if I give them a > little more credibility than I give you. They show that is physically > impossible to make a building pancake down (implode) with a small amount of > preplaced explosives without first weakening the structure. Your assertions to > the contrary are not physics.
I suspect the WTC towers were designed with a structural weakness to make any future demolition easy. Modern buildings like many other modern devices follow the design philosophy of make-it-disposable. Harry
