OK, so Loss Leader thinks that the aircraft impact somehow provided energy to propel the material 300 ft sideways an hour and a half later?? If any of the rest of you have intellectual honesty, you will correct him.
Shmendrick, let's try an exercise in itellectual honesty.
Will you agree that the towers of the World Trade Center were very unique buildings? They were two of the tallest buildings in the world. They were also built with a very unusual central core design instead of the common skeletal steel structure.
Will you also agree that some evidence points to the fact that some of the construction including the fireproofing was not done as well as possible? In part, this is because some of it was controlled by the mob.
In fact, the manner in which the buildings were fireproofed (with spray foam) is not considered acceptable in today's construction.
And you also must agree that the Boeing 767 is an aircraft that did not exist at the time the towers were built.
On that topic, certainly you must concede that prior to 9/11, nobody had ever crashed an in-flight Boeing 767 into an office building. In fact, there's really very little precedent for any Boeing 700-series aircraft being flown into any types of buildings.
All of that being true, would you demonstrate the intellectual honesty to admit that nobody on the planet earth could predict how the towers would react to being hit with 767s? I mean, you must agree that there is no precedent. There is no way to be able to model beforehand what might happen in that event. Nobody ever did and nobody could.
All this being true, why does the behavior of the buildings offer any surprises? Why do they create any "observations" to "explain"? Why, after the fact, are we suddenly smart enough to say "The buildings wouldn't have reacted that way," if we couldn't do so before the fact?
Isn't is much more logical to look at this one-time, unprecedented event and state, "I never thought that would happen"?
Ah, he woun't read this. And even if he does, he sure as heck won't answer.