Date:         Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:20:05 -0700
Reply-To:     T Berk <tberk@MINDSPRING.COM>
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From:         T Berk <tberk@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: ripples of diaster ..
Comments: To: "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@CATT.COM>
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"Horace K. Sawyer" wrote:
>
> But to those bastards, they probably really and truly <think> they are doing the
> right thing.
> That's what so damn scary about them.  They don't perceive themselves as
> evil.
<snip>
> building.  He plants implosive detonation devices here and there, all
> carefully crafted and placed at the precise points.
<snip>

Good points you had. Perception of other's than our own is hard to come
by.
Just want to mention one thing:

The towers were sturdy but relatively light so as to not collapse during
'normal' loads from their own weight.

The load of the air frames (the planes) and the initial impact and the
subsequent burning of both the aviation fuel and the buildings contents
weakened the steel supports allowing a relatively (still) stiff upper
section to start a domino effect that combined to collapsed the buildings.

Implosion devices (explosive charges) were not needed as you might have
originally surmised.

I know it may not seem likely, but modern buildings are holding
themselves up in some very unusual ways.

In any case the ramification of this will continue to be felt, even here
3000 miles away, and around the rest of the world.  Besides New Yorkers
there were other countries representatives in those buildings.


Peace be with you and yours,
TBerk