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scienceplease 2
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 Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject: Guardian article ponders the tower collapses |
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Another guardian article on 9/11...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2009/oct/20/9-1 1-al-qaida
| Quote: | As for whether they knew the towers would fall, that's a fascinating question. I'd have to think that maybe they did know, or at least hope. The WTC towers were famously designed by Minoru Yamasaki without any interior support columns, which were and are standard in most skyscrapers, so as to maximize open floor space (see the "Structural Design" section on this page). The load was borne by the distinctive vertical exterior perimeter columns, which also gave the towers their unique look (and reduced windows to 22 inches in width).
I was chatting with an architect friend of mine shortly after 9-11 and he told me that that morning, architects all over New York were on the phone with one another asking in fascination whether the famous (and in their world somewhat controversial) design would hold up. So if al-Qaida had an architect or building engineer on the payroll, which doesn't seem a stretch to me, they probably knew they had a shot at taking the towers down. |
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scienceplease 2
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| Quote: | | Seemed to me that there were quite substantial interior core columns. in fact "massive" |
Indeed. So many people that have swallowed the disinfo... |
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