payne1000 wrote:
All skyscrapers are designed where floors are an integral part of the entire structure. Floors don't move or collapse independent of the total steel framework which supports them. The massive steel framework cannot collapse in compression (straight down). Even fires which have burned much longer and hotter than on 9/11 have never been able to bring a skyscraper down.
You're trying to sell lies. That's why you hide your identity.
Of course the floors are an integral part of the entire structure. The floors in the twin towers were critical to the structural stability of the building. However, the idea that the floors "don't move or collapse independent of the total steel framework which supports them" is patently false.
Each floor in the twin towers (or any building) has a specific weight independent of the weight of any other floor. Each floor is secured to the vertical support independent of the connection of any other floor to the same vertical support.
Any mass on the planet, whether a floor or a feather, has WEIGHT, which means that it is under the pull of gravity, which means that the natural tendency of a mass resting at some point above the ground is to FALL to the ground. Each floor in the twin towers had weight, therefore it was under the pull of gravity, which means that if its connections to the vertical support are broken, the floor will FALL toward the ground. The floor connections in the twin towers were not sufficiently strong to withstand the force of a very heavy mass coming down on them, so they broke and the floor joined in the rush downward and FELL toward the ground.
It is curious that a young man named James Gartenberg was in his office on the 86th floor of the North Tower on the east side of the building facing the river when the plane hit the building. He called 911, then he called the NY Times, then he called a NY TV station WABC and told a national audience that he was trapped.
"I heard a noise and felt the whole building shake and saw glass falling out. The glass on my floor was blown out from the inside . . . . and part of the interior core of the building collapsed. . ."
"The fire door has trapped us, debris is falling around us, and part of the core of the building is blown out . . . "WTC victim, Jim Gartenberg, core blown out, WABC,09:32am, 9/11Fear on the 86th FloorJim Gartenberg was in an office
7 floors below the lowest floor struck by the jet. What this tell me is that when the jet crashed into the building, before the ensuing fires had effected anything, tons of building wreckage and debris collapsed down into the lower floors.
Jim and his administrative assistant, Patricia Puma, who was trapped with him were killed in the collapse. Jim's body was found in the rubble, his family identified him.