I've found that serious editing is necessary to reply to thecritta. I've tried not to alter the intended meaning of the original.
Not exactly, no. NIST's modelling indicates that one of the floors gave way at the connections to column 79, and fell on the next floor down, breaking the connections on that floor too. This happened over several floors, leaving a long section of column 79 unsupported. Column 79 was designed to be braced by the floor support beams; without that lateral bracing it wasn't stiff enough, so it buckled and collapsed. The rest of the core followed, resulting in the inside of the building collapsing before the outside. We know something like this must have happened, because videos show a clear view to sky through several upper storey windows between the penthouse and facade collapses, so the interior must have already collapsed at that point.
The shell itself had some strength, though not enough to hold itself up. But one of the points some truthers like to make is that they don't think there was enough resistance to the collapse, because part of it was at an acceleration close to freefall.
From the vertical columns of the facade, and from the lateral connections between them. But they weren't designed to stand on their own once the floors were gone, so they didn't.
Not exactly right, because of the timing involved. The first penthouse collapse started about 4-6 seconds before the facade collapse, and it would have taken about 7 seconds for the interior to collapse to ground level even if there wasn't any resistance to that part of the collapse. So the interior was still falling as the facade began to collapse, but there probably wasn't any structural connection left between the core and the facade by then.
Dave
Then thing is the building doesnt mostly look empty to me when it falls, even when it is descending straight down into a cloud of dust it still looks like building with most of the floors intact, it looks like to me the building is
collapsing staright down because columns have been removed and the floors are hitting each other crushing slamming against each other pulverising the floors at the weight of the building is being dragged down by gravity pulversising everything inside to dust.
Think about it this way look how much dust there was when wtc 7 had fell completely to the ground would it NOT require a tremendous amount of mass
hitting the ground to displace all that dust? Just think about it in order for all that dust to move the way it did it would require that a great amount of air
in the atmosphere be compressed and displaced and in order to compress move and displace all of that air and dust would you not need a tremendous
amount of weight & energy and all of that weight & energy require to displace the air and atmosphere would have to come from largely an intact
structure with most of the floors in place descending falling and crushing each other.
Im sorry i just can imagine how an empty shell with some of the inside
of the building still in place could displace all that dust and create all that
airpressure maybe you can prove me wrong idk we shall see.