Perspective: long term questions

[tw]

Originally posted by Hubris Boy
Hubris Boy KNOWS that a body at rest tends to remain at rest, and a body in motion tends to remain in motion. Anybody else who was awake in high school physics class KNOWS this too; apparently, tw is not a member of this elite group.

According to our 16 year old engineer, a falling WTC floor should have kept falling until it got to China. Hubris Boy cites bodies floating in free space whereas floors on the WTC were subject to boundary value conditions.

In many earthquakes where a floor has pancaked, the rest of a building remains intact. In Philadelphia, structural members were subject to equivalent temperatures without any collapse. Structural failure of one floor, either from heat or from vibration, should not result in the complete and immediate destruction of a building.

Furthermore, a building should be designed so that occupants have sufficient warning to escape. IOW a building so tall as to require over 1/2 hour to evacutate is simply not an intelligent design. Design - something that a radical and emotional high school student would not yet understand.

Right wing radical extremist: anyone who does not agree must be a left wing militant. Fortunately some high school kids do eventually grow up. Otherwise we would have more terrorists.