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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
Imagine part of a floor weighing, say a million pounds, falling on to the floor below ... that floor below must support both itself plus that additional weight ... then, imagine a portion of next floor above those two falling on top of them ... and repeat that once or twice more, and the design limit is going to be far exceeded leading to a pancaking effect...
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I think your wrong here. One floor does not hold the weight of the floor above it. The outer shell and the inner core are what support the floors, and the floors are "suspended" between the two.
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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
With all that said, as another poster above said, all this debating takes away from a more important issue being who was really behind 911 / did the U.S. government, as in Pearl Harbor, know a major attack was imminent, and purposely allow it to happen?...
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But that's an impossible task.
In the 1940s we were pretty sure an attack from Japan was coming, but not where or when. In hindsight now it seems obvious, but in 1941 Hawaii was a military outpost - it was not a US state then or even a tourist destination then. It was also one of a dozen or so US military outposts in the Pacific. Don't think the US military knew it was coming and knew where the attack would be.
Likewise, we know another attack is coming. But you can't prepare for it if you don't know when, where, how, and who. In the summer of 2001 no one imagined that we could have a terrorist attack like this on US soil - even though they had already targeted the WTC before.