atheists and "conspiracy" theories

[Abishalom]

The fires are near the top, not at the top. If the weight of the detached structure, meaning the very top floors crashed down, which it did, it would only need to crash down to the next floor in order for more weight to then be applied, thus collapsing the next floor and so on. It's not rocket science. If the top floor of my house collapsed, it would likely collapse the next floor, despite there being steel beams in my cellar. If there were another floor beneath that, it would just keep going. In short, it only needed to be heavy enough to collapse the next floor. The structure of the entirety of the building didn't have a chance once the structure of the affected floors was compromised. There was more than enough weight to take it all down. I was in those trade centers. Each story was massive in its own right. Also, terrorists can think too. In a way, it was controlled demolition, just not done with construction explosives. It was done with fuel.

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Take this photo for example.



See where the plane hit? There are several floors above that area. How much do you suppose that weighs? I'm guessing that is more than each of the houses of the people in this thread combined.

No it's not that easy unless we rationalize it as you have. Even if the top floors collapse that does not explain the domino effect we see in the WTC collapse videos. You're claiming that because the floors were large the top floors cause the lower floor (that are not on fire) to just collapse at once (in less than 2 hours). It doesn't work like that. The WTC were structurally sound. The only way it could have collapsed (under your proposed scenario) is if the whole structure was on fire, but it was the top. That not enough to enact the devastation that occurs upon the WTC.