In a scene of the Super Mario Bros movie one of the World Trade Center towers disintegrates in a manner resembling its collapse on 9/11.

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[–]SMCAB 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Come on man! Everyone knows it doesn't defy physics at all for a building built to withstand multiple airliner crashes to fall into its own footprint at freefall speed from some fire at the TOP, a fire that wasn't even big enough to burn a passport! COME ON!!!! Conspiracy Theorist!!!!!

[–]package 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why would a building not fall at "freefall speed"? Are you expecting it to stop at each floor? Or just kind of slowly shrink?

[–]monkeymagic 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

are you fucking serious?

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I'm 100% serious. Describe what you think it should have done.

[–]SMCAB 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

At the simplest level, a 110 story building cannot fall directly into its own footprint at freefall speed with resistance. With damage to the TOP of the building, that resistance would be there to the tune of 90 floors of concrete and steel. Fires at the top would cause a sideways collapse if ANYTHING. Never before in he history of skyscraper structure has a building fallen from fire. Especially one built specifically to withstand this kind of damage. The facades have been replaced around an intact frame.

Just look it up.