...> But more important than the issue of the likelihood of the steel failure, is the FACT (not conjecture) that ALL THREE buildings ... to plow through 70-80 odd floors of pristine and undamaged steel -- literally thousands of huge beams and concrete pads-- with ... is negligible compared to the kinetic energy acquired by the upper 1/3 of the building after it has fallen through the height ...

...the fires blazed and the temperatures rose within the buildings, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) believes, the remaining core columns (those not severed by the planes during impact) softened and buckled, transferring most of the load to the building's outer structural columns. The floors . . . began to sag from the heat, pulling those columns inward and adding ...

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> Somewhere in the impact area, the beams broke. The upper section (top third) of the building started falling at free-fall speed. When this section hit the intact floor below, it delivered an enormous force to this floor, breaking it's supports almost immediately and sending it moving down at a speed much greater than free-fall. The upper section of the building continued falling ...