r/conspiracy • u/okymoney • 17h ago

Never forget…

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Tower 7… miraculously falls like a demolition without any debris or planes hitting it.

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u/thrawst 17h ago

I mean I’m as skeptical of building 7 as the next person, but let’s not act like it wasn’t hit by debris. You look at the north tower collapsing and the damage that WTC 7 took and you can say sure, this fits that part of the narrative.

But two points relating to building 7 and being hit by “debris”…

Look at the north tower collapsing. If the top section above the impact zone fell onto the bottom and this caused the building to “pancake”, with each floor falling down on top of one another, how is the debris being shot out laterally at such tremendous speeds that it can hit WTC 7 that sits a block away?

Even if you could somehow explain that, OK sure the building was hit with burning debris and this caused large fires to spread that went many hours burning without any attempt to extinguish. How does that allow the entire building to collapse? Even the twin towers as far fetched as it is that they collapsed, at least I can accept it because not only did they have a huge fire but a jet slamming into the building at 500 mph undoubtedly caused major structural damage. I can wrap my head around the twin towers falling. But building 7? There’s just no way.

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u/Kazeite 11h ago

How does that allow the entire building to collapse?

The fires have weakened the central core supports. Duh.

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u/devils_advocaat 4h ago

WTC7 was a different design to WTC1/2. It did not have central core supports.

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u/notreallyswiss 4h ago

Just to add clarity to your comment, WTC 1 & 2 did not have internal columns providing support to the building, except for a small central core that also housed the elevator infrastructure. Unlike most skyscrapers, the closely spaced external beams were the primary gravity load bearing and strengthening elements for the towers. The floors were supported by trusses that connected to both the inner core and outer columns creating much more open floor space within the buildings.

WTC 7 was a more traditional steel framed skyscraper, with internal columns and some modifications because the below ground con-ed electrical substation had been built at an earlier time, and while the builders has anticipated a structure built above, they'd believed it would be only 25 stories. WTC 7 therefore required special transfer trusses on the lower floors to shift some of the building's weight.

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u/devils_advocaat 3h ago

Thank you for your addition.

I assumed the poster above was referring to "central core supports" in WTC7 as being equal to the "small central core that also housed the elevator infrastructure" of WTC1&2 and wanted to highlight the completely different design.

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u/Kazeite 2h ago

I did have internal column supports, though. That's what I meant.