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therealdope said:
I don't know about that.

The buildings were built in 1970 and '71. There were 747s flying around for 5 yrs flying in and out of Newark and JFK with more fuel than the 757/767 had that day. Plus when they were building the WTCs they knew that a 707 had plowed into the Empire state building in the 50s. So it was definitely on their minds.

I'll just say this, i was in DC that day and watching the events on a TV at a hotel in a conference area with about 30 people. The guy next to me had worked as a welder on skyscraper projects and by about 10:30 we all knew it was a terrorist plot -- almost certainly by Bin Laden. When it was clear that these fires were going to burn for a long time he said, "they're trying to melt the buildings down. They won't withstand this.".
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I'm going off a show I saw on it. At the time, there was no way anything could bring those buildings down. They were supposedly uncollapsable. That was from the engineers who built it.
 
Captain Davis said:
I'm going off a show I saw on it. At the time, there was no way anything could bring those buildings down. They were supposedly uncollapsable. That was from the engineers who built it.
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Everything is collapsible - what kind of moron engineer said that? None I bet. I'll bet it was the bldg mgmt company that said that.

The engineers who designed the Citi bank bldg in NYC never expected a hurricane to come to NYC. less than 3 yrs post completion a hurricane was headed straight for NYC. One of the ideas was to have the Army bring it down in a controlled manner. Luckily a westerly wind took it to Long Island just before it hit Manhattan.
 
therealdope said:
Everything is collapsible - what kind of moron engineer said that? None I bet. I'll bet it was the bldg mgmt company that said that.

The engineers who designed the Citi bank bldg in NYC never expected a hurricane to come to NYC. less than 3 yrs post completion a hurricane was headed straight for NYC. One of the ideas was to have the Army bring it down in a controlled manner. Luckily a westerly wind took it to Long Island just before it hit Manhattan.
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There is a bunch of crap out there on the subject. I'll just leave this:

http://www1.ae911truth.org/faqs/655...d-to-survive-the-impact-of-the-airplanes.html

Anyway, apparently they were wrong.
 
PolishHeadlock said:
The bar hosting the Christmas party ran out of Bullitt Bourbon 2 hours in.

Bunch of heathens... luckily they had Knobb Creek Rye on standby
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Been meaning to try this, though I'm not a bourbon drinker at all I've heard it's really good.
 
Captain Davis said:
There is a bunch of crap out there on the subject. I'll just leave this:

http://www1.ae911truth.org/faqs/655...d-to-survive-the-impact-of-the-airplanes.html

Anyway, apparently they were wrong.
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After reading the article I want to poke my eyes out.

Both buildings survived the impact and would have remained standing. What they didn't mention in the article is the fact that the impact destroyed the insulation protecting the steel beams from heat. The open air burning temp of jet fuel is 1000C, the yield strength of steel at 1000C is 3% of what it is at 25C, 100C or even 200C. Simply put the structural steel beams were heated to a point where they had 1/30th of their designed strength.

Look at figure 4 of this paper and you can see the temperature dependence of yield strength of steel.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.560.3179&rep=rep1&type=pdf

the buildings withstood the impacts (as designed), unfortunately the insulation was removed from the beams during the impact, the beams heated and eventually the steel yielded.
 
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lil dude is a straight pimp w/ his new Gordon Hayward 'do
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PolishHeadlock said:
The bar hosting the Christmas party ran out of Bullitt Bourbon 2 hours in.

Bunch of heathens... luckily they had Knobb Creek Rye on standby
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Knob Creek is good shit. One of the few things I can actually drink straight, no ice. It's a good sipper.
 
Got vip tickets to a Jim Beam bourbon festival a few years ago

Got to try all the different vendors there and go to have unlimited drinks of whatever I wanted at the vip bar

Knob Creek was there so I drank that all night

There was a country concert and other cool shit as well, I won the tickets on the radio, but it would have been well worth the $125 price tag for vip, gonna probably go again this year
 
Prime Ang said:
Got vip tickets to a Jim Beam bourbon festival a few years ago

Got to try all the different vendors there and go to have unlimited drinks of whatever I wanted at the vip bar

Knob Creek was there so I drank that all night

There was a country concert and other cool shit as well, I won the tickets on the radio, but it would have been well worth the $125 price tag for vip, gonna probably go again this year
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There's a place near my work that does and annual bourbon and beef fundraiser.

It's $50 all you can drink/eat. They have a bunch of carving stations where you get unlimited tastings of dry aged steaks, pork belly pastrami, pork chops etc... and for drinks they have Booker's, Basil Hayden and Baker's bourbon along with Knobb Creek Rye.
 
Hey does anyone know where I can get a Terence "Bud" Crawford signed glove?
 
I like how it's got his nickname there. I know sho Terrance Crawford is, but who the fuck is "Bud" Crawford
 
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