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Office Fires: How do they work?

submitted by marbles

1 decade 2 years 9 months 1 week ago

Watch in slow motion as a 47-story steel framed building collapses from office fires. Newly released video (Jan 2011) by National Institute of Standards and Technology following Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

NIST: The building "collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishes. It did not collapse from explosives or from fuel-oil fires."

Catherine Fletcher - FOIA Officer, NIST: "NIST did not test for the presence of explosive residue"

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Having one side ravaged by the debris from a falling skyscraper probably didn't help much, either.

>> ^NicoleBee:

Having one side ravaged by the debris from a falling skyscraper probably didn't help much, either.

If falling debris caused any structural damage, then the building would've fell over toward the side with the damage--the path of least resistance.

As seen here:
http://videosift.com/video/Dumb-dangerous-building-demolition-inevitably-ends-in-fail
http://videosift.com/video/Building-demolition-goes-a-little-bit-wrong

therealblankman

Hilarious. *comedy

Adding video to channels (Comedy) - requested by therealblankman.

jokingly says...

What the scientists don't know is that Building 7 was built upon a unique gravitational vortex which made it possible for it to collapse symmetrically on its own footprint, essentially defying the laws of physics which exist everywhere else in the known universe.

(it was also built on a foundation of toothpicks.)

>> ^therealblankman:

Hilarious. comedy

poor taste.

Thallium says...

In before the "WTC 7 was blowed up by splosives hurr" people.

>> ^marbles:

>> ^therealblankman:
Hilarious. comedy

poor taste.

Shut up Faggot. And I say that in the Louis CK way...you're not gay you're just being a faggot.

FlowersInHisHair

You know that building that rolled over wasn't WTC 7, right? It was a different building. Built differently and destroyed in a different way, under different circumstances.

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