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The WTC cores

Pardalis said:
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OK, that was a tough one. What about this French Canadian cutie?

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I nominate Norah Jones:

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stateofgrace said:


The floors simply braced the core and the external steel super structure together. They were reinforced with concrete. I could be wrong on this one but I am also led to believe that the floors weighted the same, i.e. floor 10 weighted the same as floor 100. They were simply strapped to the core, which took the weight and in turn to the external steel superstructure.
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I would hesitate to use the word 'reinforced', in reference to the floors.

My understanding is that the floor construction was of lattice beams or trusses spanning between the vertical members (the internal and external columns) and supporting corrugated steel decking. As with a corrugated steel roof covering on an industrial building (or even corrugated cardboard) the corruges (yes I just made that word up!) in the steel make it much more rigid than simple flat steel plate and so it's ability to span from one floor truss to another allows for greater spacing of the floor trusses and a saving in materials, time and money.

But corrugated steel aint much fun to walk on and if you don't get the legs of you chair in the right position, you fall over very easily.

After many years of scientific study. the Royal Society for the Study of Wonky Chairs concluded in their 1823 report that it would be more beneficial to cast a simple concrete slab over the corrugated steel deck, thus providing a level surface upon which to place a chair. They then went down the pub at 1827.

But apart from that, I think Stateofgrace was spot on, if slightly scottish.

Apologies if this was picked up in any subsequent posts, but once I saw truthy and christo posting on this thread I just scrolled through to the pictures of the hot chicks (apologies to any hot chicks reading this etc etc)
 
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uk_dave said:
But corrugated steel aint much fun to walk on and if you don't get the legs of you chair in the right position, you fall over very easily.

After many years of scientific study. the Royal Society for the Study of Wonky Chairs concluded in their 1823 report that it would be more beneficial to cast a simple concrete slab over the corrugated steel deck, thus providing a level surface upon which to place a chair. They then went down the pub at 1827.

But apart from that, I think Stateofgrace was spot on, if slightly scottish.

Apologies if this was picked up in any subsequent posts, but once I saw truthy and christo posting on this thread I just scrolled through to the pictures of the hot chicks (apologies to any hot chicks reading this etc etc)
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Haha, Thanks for the correction Uk Dave, yeah I can imagine wonky chairs syndrome, mind it normally happens after I've been down the pub. They just become wonky all of a sudden.

BTW we don't all live in caves up here, we do have some culture:)


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chipmunk stew said:
Just for laughs, please outline a test protocol for this investigation. (If BullSquatter1+2=4 does not wish to participate, I'd be happy to hear anyone else's ideas.)
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We build an exact, full-scale replica of one Tower (two would just be extravagant). TS1234 camps out on the roof for a year, periodically shouting "Nyah Nyah NWO! Bet ya can't blow this one to Kingdom Come!"

Having been mocked into outrage, the NWO BWoD will then blow the tower to Kingdom Come, if said BWoD actually exists.

And on 364 days (out of 365), if it lasts that long, we smack the tower with a (drone ;)) 767, just to see what happens.
 
Arkan_Wolfshade said:
It's monkeys, all the way in the middle.
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Well now that's just confusing. Wouldn't the monkeys just climb the cranes? They do look like monkey bars.

Although this could explain why NASA used monkeys in the first space shots - they expected to find a bunch of them already up there!
 
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