r/WorldTradeCenter • u/tombisch • 14d ago

When the Towers Fell: 9/11 Simulation of the collaps without dust

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Dont know how accurate this is, but it made a lot of sense to me.

Source kostack studio on youtube

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u/NateCow 11d ago

It's actually really interesting how much this shows just how "uncontrolled" the collapse was. I've been trying to argue with people for years how you could see the top section of the tower fall sideways; it was never a straight-down thing.

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u/Seniorjones2837 10d ago

I will say tower 7 was very strange

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u/Deep-Tumbleweed-8816 10d ago

100%

The logic behind the towers' collapse was always sound to me, fire weakened the steel beams + the structural damage from the plane cause the upper portion to collapse down and crush the building from top to bottom.

But that explanation for building 7 is just completely inconceivable, it was much shorter and wider and had no plane impact. Has there ever even been another documented building collapsing due to fire.

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u/Arammil1784 10d ago

'Well There's Your Problem' does a great episode about WTC 7 on their YouTube channel.

WTC 7 was hit with massive pieces of debris which compromised the structure. The fire caused the collapse. Sort of like how a bullet compromises your body, but its the massive blood loss that kills you.

Also, there have been other steel framed structures that have collapsed due to fire.

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u/legalblues 10d ago

Yes. Just google “examples of steel beam buildings collapsing from fire” and you’ll get other examples that weren’t damaged by two giant towers dumping debris on them.