re: 9/11 Was A Conspiracy!

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Also think about it. A B25 bomber full of BOMBS once hit the Empire State Building and it is STILL here decades later but a PASSENGER plane hits a MODERN building and it falls in LESS THAN ONE HOUR.

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The two buildings relied on completely different structural systems. The World Trade Center had non-structural exterior curtain walls. All of the supporting structure was inside of the building. Much of that structure on a single floor was knocked out by the building crash. The rest on that floor was heated until it buckled, causing the systematic failure of the rest of the building structure.

The Empire State Building has much of its structure on the exterior of the building. This meant that even though much of the inside was burning, the lad bearing members were not taking the heat, so not enough of them failed as to precipitate a collapse.

The World Trade Center was also bombed in the 90s when a van full of explosives was detonated in the parking garage. That one failed as well as not enough columns were heated to the point of failure to instigate a collapse.