Posted on 06/11/2015 11:16:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Isaac Newton is raciss...
He’s guilty of thought crime. Indict!
I think the Pentagon might have held up against the airliner if they had not put windows in the Exterior walls.
My thoughts on the matter for what their worth.
All of those holes in the wall are stress locuses.
The windows are actually blast resistant, but the plane even breached the concrete structure itself making a hole 75 feet wide. The outside wall collapsed some time after impact but the initial size of the hole could determined by the number of interior support columns the plane destroyed.
Sure but they still has plenty of space between them as we saw with people jumping from those spaces. And IIRC that extwernal steel was a lot thinner than the girders inside. The few girders in the case of the WTC by comparison to a normal building. That said, I get your point.
Shaq always has been whack. He was just popular because people value athleticism more than intelligence.
Shaq? Hell, Wilt would have brought him to tears on the court.
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ISIS in IRAQ: I like SHAQ, but I wonder: Did SHAQ say anything about how we can wipe ISIS in IRAQ from the face of the earth?
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ISIS in IRAQ: I like SHAQ, but I wonder: Did SHAQ say anything about how we can wipe ISIS in IRAQ from the face of the earth?
You would think a 300 Pound Basketball Player would understand Inertia. Then again, it is Shaq...
“...he insists the composition of the buildings was too strong and “wouldn’t allow a plane to slice through it as cleanly as Flight 175 did”
Shaq the Quack, his lab coat way too small, wearing his Lakers warm-up underneath, hi-top basketball shoes and a set of “Nutty Professor” teeth in his mouth, taps the 10-foot wooden pointer on an oversized green chalkboard where his original calculations are prominently displayed. However, it’s just another cartoon.
I’m sure that a Nuclear Reactor Containment building would not withstand it. In fact, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it would be a huge disaster.
Wondered about this myself a while back and looked it up.
They’ve done the study. Would obviously mess up the power plant and take it offline, but wouldn’t breach the containment building.
Most of the exterior surface of the Towers were windows. Glass doesn’t stop much of anything, much less 5 ton pretty solid engines hitting at 586 mph, the speed the 2nd plane was clocked at.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/speed-likely-factor-in-wtc-collapse-25-02-2002/
Actually, as I understand it, a howitzer would probably just scratch the paint on the exterior of the containment building.
I suspect these are far and away the strongest structures ever built.
Hey Shaq, I think the Icy Hot went to your head.
I read somewhere Shaq is a Muslim convert. Thought he was part of an article headlined as ‘Top Ten Americans you did not know were Muslim.’
Shaq should stick to hoops.
I didn’t know they even made Tin foil hats that big...
Does Sly Stone know about this ?
Well Shaq wasn’t hired for his IQ.
The Towers failed as designed.
They collapsed vertically as the floor beams sagged as a result of the fire, as they sagged they came off the beam seats and fell to the floor below, exceeding the load capacity of the supporting steel and this accelerated with each floor.
The concern at the time of construction was a winter hurricane, a category 5. The fear was the tower or towers could fall like a tree and cause a domino effect up Manhattan.
Because of this fear, the floors were designed to walk off the beam seats if the buildings leaned to far off-center, preventing them from falling over. It was also assumed that they would have enough time to empty the building before the storm.
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