BadComrade wrote:The outer walls were half of the support, and the inner "core" was the other half, obviously.
Please cite your source for the 'half and half' load bearing distribution.
No one ever said that the support was from outer wall to outer wall.
You wrote that the towers had a "totally open floor plan", which is understandable, because the PBS special
America Rebuilds showed animation that omitted the core columns.
The truss supports under the floors on the twin towers were only strong enough to hold up the floor, they weren't part of the skeletal structure of the building.
Even if you're right ( I'll try and find proof otherwise later ), how do the failing trusses 'pull' the core columns down with them, or segment them so neatly? Why didn't the core remain like a spindle?
Here's the Sears Tower. Notice all of those extra huge vertical and horizontal beams in the places that the twin towers didn't have any? Big difference. If the twin towers would have had all that extra support, it wouldn't have come down.
So,are you saying that there were massive fires on the floors below the plane impacts, and that these fires weakened the lower floors so dramatically that when the 'cap' above the impact zone dropped what, two floors, because of the supposed symmetrical truss failure, that this drop of two floors created such an impact on the floors below that this moving weight ( the same weight that the lower floors supported for 30 years ), this new dropping weight was now sufficient to drive through all the lower floors at free fall speed? Because that's what happened, according to the official 'global collapse' theory. The official theory all rests on fires burning much hotter than hydrocarbon fires burn,
across the entire width of the buildings, on floors 100's of yards from the impact zones.
The videos don't show these fires, but the testimonies of many who were in the vicinity and the radio transmissions of the firefighters do report explosions on the lower floors and in the basements. Why do you believe in magic fires that you can't see and not believe in those who lived through it?