05-11-2015, 04:12 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:To my (untrained) eye it appeared to be a collapse. However, watching it live, I somehow knew the South Tower building was going to "collapse" a few seconds in advance. I cannot say if I saw the upper section start to lean sideways, or buckle, or if there was some sort of vibration that I subconsciously perceived, but I said, out loud, "That building's coming down!" and then it did. When the dust cleared I was quite surprised at how little remained; I was expecting a far greater portion of the lower building to remain intact.
I did not see any similar sign of the North Tower start to collapse.
I saw material being ejected to the sides as well, and I have been told (both) that the sideways ejection of steel beams at speed is anomalous, and that it is normal. This is a poor analogy at best, however, when I am breaking a handful of uncooked spaghetti sticks (for my kid's favorite meal) there is an awful lot of small bits of spaghetti in all directions on the kitchen counter.
So, in truth, I cannot say my personal observations were "consistent with collapse" nor "inconsistent." In view of completeness, however, let me say that what I saw of Building 7 going down is consistent with controlled demolition.
When the spaghetti that you break goes flying in all directions, was there not an outside force being applied to the spaghetti therefore causing the directional disbursement of spaghetti? I would suggest that if you hand a handful of spaghetti and punctured the bundle three quarters of the way up (initial plane impact) the spaghetti bundle would not collapse upon itself. And if it did simply perform a gravitational collapse (from spaghetti structure weakening) the spaghetti would not be disbursed in the same violent pattern as if an outside force had been applied.