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Originally posted by russotto
Further, the structure in Philadelphia (1 Meridian Place) was NOT subject to equivalent temperatures.
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Both you and I know that. However I posted in response to temperatures cited by our 16 year old engineer. 1 Meridan Place was also subject to temperatures that he posted - and remained intact. I was going to let him demonstrate again his lack of engineering knowledge.
However the point remains - a structure that requires more than one half hour to evacuate must be able to stand far longer than either WTC tower did. Russotto is correct. Real temperatures inside that or any other building would have eventually resulted in a floor collapse. The problem is that no one floor on the WTC could withstand the collapse of the floor above - in order to build excessively high. That is not true of smaller skyscrapers. A single floor collapse does not result in wholesale building destruction. An so I ask again whether it makes sense to build them too high.
Furthermore smaller skyscrapers confronted by the same temperatures would have given occupants sufficient time to escape.
BTW, my estimate puts the missing in my hometown at about 7% of the households. Yes, some of those pictures of people searching for love ones - I went to school with them.