Absolutely amazing. I'm still shocked that those buildings fell straight down instead of sideways. I'm sitting in midtown Manhattan as I write this . . .
wow. So terrifying for anyone there. I am going to NYC for a while this summer just to visit. I absolutely love that city.
Unreal. Still blows me away that this happened. My first time to ground zero was about 3 years after it happened and my wife and I were speechless. It was completely quiet there. Very eerie.
exactly.. it totally blew me away. Everything in that city is full of people talking and noise but for a few blocks its just SILENT. It was in 04 when I went, so probably around the time you did. It was just like a giant graveyard with the eerie silence.
Just reminds me how much I want those mother fucking terrorists to fucking die a horrible and dishonorable death. Fucking bastards.
That's how they were designed. Those were some tough photos for me to look at as friends of mine were trapped in each tower. Some of that dust was them.
It's possible, I've seen it several times. Although Przybilla and Oden fell sideways, the Wicked Witch of the West melted vertically into a black pile with her conical hat left on top. Dorothy had just discovered that water was her Kryptonite. Actually, they were designed not to crumple at all, up to a Boeing 707. But these planes were larger, so the design doesn't explain the vertical fall. What matters is that many other skyscrapers have been well-designed but none have fallen down from earthquakes, many of which have been more powerful than a plane.
A couple of issues with that analysis. First, the 707 calculation wasn't done full of airplane fuel. It stood up to the impact of the aircraft. It couldn't stand up to the heat generated by the fire once the insulation was blown off. Second, the steel weakened due to heat (it didn't have to melt). The floors then pancaked. Each successive floor driven by gravity added more and more weight, accelerating the pancaking process. There was no controlled demolition. That's tinfoil hat bullshit.
But the weight of those floors being affected (melting, whatever) wasn't big enough to take down the whole damn building or was it? I still believe there was something else going on here. Not going to say govt, could have been terrorist, foreign agencies, etc.
I think we can all agree that the real tragedy here is that the photographer's last name is Semendinger. 911 nvr 4get
