North Tower Acceleration

[jesters]

67. Absolute B.S.

"Where do you think the kinetic energy not being used to accelerate the upper sections is going and doing, jesters? "

This is a bizarrely phrased question. What extra energy are you referring to? The only energy available to pull the top section of building through the lower is through gravity. Bazant and Zhou assume a free fall initiating impact which did not occur, and then ignore the absorption of kinetic energy by the lower, much more intact, much larger structure. That's where they get their "inevitability", their "overwhelming" force. This is hardly a best case scenario. It's a fabrication. The best case scenario for collapse arrest is reality: the buildings remained standing after the plane impacts. Were it not for incendiaries, they would have remained standing or at most suffered partial collapses in the upper portions.

Bazant's model has been shown to be wrong by numerous independent analyses, on both sides of the debate.