>>13612028Well the official claim is that the thermal expansion pushed one column out of it’s seat, and then, like a domino, this column magically collapsed the next columns, from the inside out, until it reached the outer columns at PRECISELY AND EXACTLY THE SAME TIME to produce a completely symmetrical collapse. That’s preposterous, it would require a miracle of coincidence, and I don’t believe in miracles. This building was engineered to collapse.
The whole facade came straight fucking down at EXACTLY FREE FALL. You have to be a complete idiot to not see through this one.
The way to see that this is not a natural collapse is simply to observe that the supports “on the facade” at the left of the building collapsed at the same time as the supports “on the facade” at the right end, as I can see with my own eyes. If you examine cases of natural collapse, e.g. the delft building:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bizr86N-4nca column fails, a part collapses, the rest of the building stays standing, and the collapse is asymmetrical and incomplete. In the case of the video, the left of the Delft buidling collapsed, the rest stayed up, as expected from localized failure.
That’s always the case when buildings have natural collapse, a column fails here, another there, and they fail at different times, and some don’t fail at all. The building becomes a hollowed out wreck, similar to what you see in postwar pictures of Germany.
The heat expansion coefficient of steel is such that even for heating of the entire span of steel to 700 degrees (which is absurd, it’s like placing the whole building in a furnace), the steel would expand by some centimeters, or tens of centimeters. This leads to a noticible “sagging” of beams, as you can see in the steel-framed high-rise fire, because a few centimeters of extra length translates to some meters of bend in the beam.
