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Originally Posted by kandah
Aluminum cans are hollow and does not have massive steel core columns.
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Tell me you are not that thick. Several floors were destroyed when the plane crashed in there at 100's of miles per hour. Forget the dumb fucking steal can't melt at blah blah blah temperatures when in point of fact what you SHOULD be thinking about is the damage to the steel core by the impact making it and every floor above it structurally compromised.
What steel support is left sits there holding up 100's and 1,000's of tons or more of building. When it begins to fail, all that massive tonnage of building comes straight down like a hand crushing the top of an alumminum can collapsing the steel frame on the floor below by sheer brute force. Adding the weight of that to the next floor which collapses and so forth by the steadily increasing weight that is coming down at unimaginable pressures.
Yes the core was made to hold up the building, what is wasn't made to withstand was the pressure of part of that building collapsing down several floors instantly. After that physics takes over and for all intents and purposes it behaves just like that aluminimum can.
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