Duane Dibbley

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Pancake theory is bunk.

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What? Are you serious?

Let me try to explain this to you; it's pretty straightforward, though.
The numbers I'm going to use, with the exception of the energy transferred, are for illustrative purposes only.

First, let's address the bowling ball nonsense.
When you drop the bowling ball, it becomes a projectile moving downwards.

The amount of energy needed to break through the first level will scrub some of the speed off and because the bowling ball remains the same weight the amount of energy available to break through the second layer is diminished.

( kinetic energy is calculated as half the mass (\(m\)) times the velocity (\(v\)) squared )

Which means that there will be less energy available to break through the next level.
That's why the bowling ball stops after a short distance, but that's not the case with the World Trade Center.


Let's say that each floor of the World Trade Center weighed 1 million pounds. That means that if there were 10 floors above the initial failure, that would be a 10-million-pound projectile moving downwards at, let's say, 5 feet per second.

That means when the projectile hits the next floor, the amount of energy transferred will be 2.89 million foot-pounds of energy.

No steel beam on the planet can handle that amount of force without giving way. When it does, it adds its weight to the projectile.

So, every floor that collapses increases the weight of the projectile by 1 million pounds, which increases the amount of energy available to break through the next barrier, which the bowling ball does not do.

And because there's more mass available for gravity to work on, the speed will increase.

So, after ten more floors, you now have a 20 million pound projectile moving downwards at, let's say, 15 ft per second that will give you 69.9 million foot pounds of energy to break through the next barrier.

After 40 floors, you now have a 50-million-pound projectile moving downwards, let's say at 35 feet per second —that's 950 million foot-pounds of energy.

That's why there were sheared beams in the debris.

The weirdest one I can think of is when she would take buttered toast, tear it into bite-sized pieces, and pour chocolate milk on it. That was my breakfast on Saturday mornings while I was watching cartoons.

Some of these AI-generated reimaginings can be fun. This one's my favorite now.

Ju'Juan got that chest. Give Ju'Juan the ball.

H&R makes a single-shot 28-gauge shotgun, and Benneke has a 28-gauge slug, which, in my opinion, would be better for hunting deer, and you could use it for squirrels. The only downside is that you would likely have to buy your ammo online.

H&R Pardner Model SB1 28 Gauge Single Shot Shotgun...$159.99

Is ABC one of the providers? Because it's simulcast on both ABC and ESPN.

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Original taste was great.

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Korean soup spoons, they were under ten dollars when I bought them; now they're double that, but they're worth every penny. I use them all the time when cooking.