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Originally Posted by Rochard
Let's just say that there was no fire. No fire at all. The planes smashed into the buildings at full force, at speed. It took out several floors of support on one side, as well as the middle. No one is sure what other damage the impacts had. This in itself is more than enough to take the buildings down.
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Engineers who built the towers have said it was built to withstand such impacts, several of them actually.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Seems to me the building fell... just like any other building when it falls in on itself.
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Find me a building that has fallen on itself without controlled demolition.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Yes, the towers had a steel core in the middle. But don't make it sound like this was solid steel thirty feet thick. Inside of this "steel core" was a large number of elevators - multiple large tall empty cores.
In fact, the moment the airplanes hit huge fireballs were sent down these elevator shafts and into the main lobbies.
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Jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel.