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[–]jagworms 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The point here is that this Spanish building burned throughout, for many hours. Every structural member was under thermal stress. . .yet it stood. On 9/11, the buildings were on fire from the point of impact - UP. The lower 80 floors were not on fire, and not structurally weakened by the thermal stress of fire - yet the strength of those floors evaporated all at once when the top floor started moving down.