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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
I saw that too. And the explanation about the girder cleats made sense.
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I thought it was pretty good. It was horrific. Thinking about it still makes me angry.
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Originally Posted by merrylander
Are you suggesting that such occurances should be taken into account? Those jets were bare airborne, fueld fo a trans-continental flight. All of the fuel was now in the buildings and burning. Want to take a guess at the ambient temperatures.
As for the Italian's documentary, it so happens that I knew and worked with a lot of the NIST people and came away impressed, and I don't impress too easily.
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In the doc or interview me and Dave saw they also said that if the main stairwell had concrete walls instead of the drywall ones in the WTC they probably would've been able to evacuate the upper floors. New skyscrapers had already gone to concrete walls.
Otherwise I agree with you Rob. They could make building them so expensive it'd be crazy. You should take a look at that link, it's pretty interesting.
Pete