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In reply to the discussion: The Great Thermite Debate... [View all]William Seger
(11,092 posts)I can't force you to see it or to understand it, but it's hard not to notice that you are deliberately avoiding the physics: When the top section tips, it is trying to rotate around its center of mass, and for a building to topple over like a tree, the structure that its pivoting on must be able to resist the lateral force that's pushing in the opposite direction. That means that whether or not a particular building can resist that lateral force depends entirely on the construction details of that building. If you had understood that before your post #132, you wouldn't have attacked a straw-man:
> Oh how nice to have Bolo to explain to us why bumblebees can not fly and buildings can not topple.
You can't actually argue against the substance of what I'm saying but your ego won't let you admit that you didn't understand the physics involved, so you'll keep posting over and over and hope nobody notices. It's a tiresome game.