Calling Out Demolition Deniers

[Rayaan]

Rayaan. Seriously. You're making yourself look like a blithering, foaming-at-the-mouth idiot. I have held you in intellectual esteem, but this is starting to seriously corrode it.

Mull over that one a little more.





A quote in an article by Richard Gage, AIA, Gregg Roberts, and David Chandler (on WTC 7):

The overall building mass fell uniformly and with almost perfect symmetry through what should have been the path of greatest resistance – 40,000 tons of structural steel. This requires a precisely timed patterned removal of critical columns – which office fires, a gradual organic process, is not capable of. Only a carefully engineered implosion could cause this 47-story building to collapse in on itself – and land mostly within its own footprint. After all, demolition companies are paid large sums to accomplish this feat, and only a few can do it with tall buildings.

Also, the destruction was complete. The building had been built especially strong so that alternate floors could be removed in case a tenant needed an extra tall space. Yet its forty-seven stories were reduced, in less than seven seconds, to about four stories of debris – like a house of cards – with the virtually complete dismemberment of the steel skeleton, including both braced and welded moment-resisting (bend-resistant) frames.