No One Talks About WTC3
But it was a large building-- a 22 story hotel nestled next to the twin towers.
WTC3 was almost completely obliterated, presumably by debris falling from WTC1 and WTC2. Here are some fascinating pictures of WTC3 during the destruction of WTC2 and after WTC2 was demolished.
Looks to me like two concrete floors slabs broke off and fell here along with large sets of exterior columns. What is strange is much of WTC2 tilted to the east as it went down, but here we have a large chunk of WTC2 falling to the west.
You can see these large sections of building falling AWAY from the tower-- notice the intact tower wall in the background. So what is driving the global collapse if huge amounts of the building are falling to either side?
This is from the same view as above, and what is truly freaky here is the sets of exterior columns from WTC2 that have planted themselves into the ground like a set of lawn darts. If nothing else, this picture illustrates how much structural damage a large tower can absorb without undergoing complete collapse!
It really is absurd to think that a limited amount of asymmetric damage on upper floors of the WTC towers led to COMPLETE decimating collapse of the towers. If you look at the pictures of ground zero, there IS NOTHING LEFT of the tower structure except for some perimeter walls. How the hell could the massive core structures completely disappear without some extremely powerful outside force?
WTC3 was almost completely obliterated, presumably by debris falling from WTC1 and WTC2. Here are some fascinating pictures of WTC3 during the destruction of WTC2 and after WTC2 was demolished.
Looks to me like two concrete floors slabs broke off and fell here along with large sets of exterior columns. What is strange is much of WTC2 tilted to the east as it went down, but here we have a large chunk of WTC2 falling to the west.
You can see these large sections of building falling AWAY from the tower-- notice the intact tower wall in the background. So what is driving the global collapse if huge amounts of the building are falling to either side?
This is from the same view as above, and what is truly freaky here is the sets of exterior columns from WTC2 that have planted themselves into the ground like a set of lawn darts. If nothing else, this picture illustrates how much structural damage a large tower can absorb without undergoing complete collapse!
It really is absurd to think that a limited amount of asymmetric damage on upper floors of the WTC towers led to COMPLETE decimating collapse of the towers. If you look at the pictures of ground zero, there IS NOTHING LEFT of the tower structure except for some perimeter walls. How the hell could the massive core structures completely disappear without some extremely powerful outside force?
posted by spooked at 7:21 AM
1 Comments:
Hey, thanks for recognizing WTC3.
WTC3: "I don't get no respect!" ;-)
I think "they" want you to forget about WTC3.
Beyond the "lawn darts" in the street (good description), where is the WTC3??? It went "poof" and a significant portion of the building's material is missing in action! Where is it?
Right after this picture was taken, WTC1 went "poof" and the photographer of this picture (Bill Biggart) was killed. Somehow, I know that he knew just how important this picture would be to us. Thanks for posting it.
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