jaydeehess
Penultimate Amazing
Yeah, well you see the plane is really just a big bag of air. It weighs 150 tons if you nelt it down into a single block but in reality that 150 tons is thinly spread out not unlike an aluminium cobweb by comparison with the massive steel of the building.(See photos above). Otherwise the plane could not fly.
Ohhh, that's what you are on about, that the plane did not squash up on the exterior of the building and break up into a billion pieces that would rain down on the streets below.
Well even the light aircraft that impacted another apartment bldg a few years ago managed to actually enter the building. It weighed much less than the weight of just the fuel load on a Boeing and was flying at less than half the speed of the Boeing. It was constructed much lighter than the Boeing as well. Yet it did cause damage to the steel wall it hit.
So you have a Boeing weighing a couple of orders of magnitude _= a couple of orders of magnitude more momentum) more than the small plane, travelling at over twice the velocity of the small plane ( = a greater than quadrulpling of momentum)and constructed with a much sturdier frame than the small plane (meaning breaching the wall is easier).
Yes, the leading parts that hit the wall do squash/break up BUT the momentum also allows a breach of the wall AND quickly following this is the rest of the mass of the aircraft pushing through that breach and any lagging debris from the aircraft leading parts and the facade/window glass.
That you do not have the ability to see and understand this is quite apparent but that does not negate it.
Aluminium does not cut steel. That would simply be tantamount to the bread cutting the knife. Especially paper-thin aluminium.
One can in fact snap a knife in half if the bread is simply moving fast enough. I would put the blade crosswise to the direction of travel though since if this is your analogy then it would be encumbant upon you to denomstrate that the columns of the towers were honed edges of steel. Besides, of course, the columns were not 'cut' in the same connotation of the word in which a knife 'cuts' bread. Instead the steel was pushed and bent to its breaking point by the very sudden, and relatively focused horizontal load that was a large, heavy, fast aircraft impacting them.
<<sighs>> water cuts steel but aluminum can't snap steel , gotcha.
a hurricane can push a straw through a palm tree but aluminum cannot break steel, gotcha.
A bullet can punch through steel or concrete(a lead bullet) but aluminum cannot, gotcha.
