Southwark Towers Implosions

South Philadelphia public housing site is razed by NEF, CDI and Haines.

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[DontUputThatEvilOnMe]

All I want to do is watch a cool building implosion, but every video I go to there are people arguing in the comments about 9/11. Shut the hell up and enjoy the video.

[2012AhKin]

Mini WTC

[9521johnnyboy]

@Achisachis73 @AirForcedude5 its you guys that make demolition videos on youtube horrible, i see this all the time 2 stupid cunts arguing over that 9/11 was a inside job really shut the fuck up this video has nothing to do with 9/11 why do u guys even do this?? do you have nothing better to do with your lives?? whats the point of even doing this its not gonna change how someone thinks about 9/11, and as of you two and for everyone else SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH IF NOT....PLEASE KILL YOUR SELF

[AirForcedude5]

@Achisachis73 that's an easy one. the towers fell straight down because they started falling from the top, and it was almost like a pancake onto the next one. There was still enough structural integrity that the building would stand, but hat one of the floors suddenly caught the falling debris and stopped it cold, the transfer of energy would be so huge that the building probably would have tipped over.

[Achisachis73]

@AirForcedude5 ok then, let's just agree that 11 sec. is a reasonably time...in a perfectly vertical line? ....I was in NY in '94 and saw the WTC, it was amazingly tall and thin. I just cannot believe it can fall straight down to its basement, which is what expert demolition crews do, explode the basement first and then the top. There were explosions in the basement and witnesses recorded on video before the towers came down. And then there is building 7....NORAD stand down, etc.etc.etc.

[AirForcedude5]

@Achisachis73 We all agree that buildings are 90% air, and the way that the buildings fell was one floor on-top of another, like a pancake. Well that air that is trapped has to go somewhere, and out through the windows is the only way. and while the building is falling the build up of pressure acts almost like a temporary cushion for each floor, slowing the buildings downward decent. 11 seconds is a perfectly reasonable time.

[Achisachis73]

@AirForcedude5 That is my point indeed. A building that tall should have taken much longer to fall. Where is the wind resistance? where is the resistance from the other floors? And why does it fall perfectly in a straight line towards the basement? Can you please use your simple math formula and prove how building seven collapsed as well?

[AirForcedude5]

@Achisachis73 I am actually a physics major, so I can disprove that with very simple math. Now the speed of gravity is 9.8 M/s/s. The roof of them was 415 M, now without air resistance as a factor, the roof by itself would take 4.32 seconds to hit the ground. using the equation t=H/G t=415/9.8^2. The actual speed of the fall was 11 seconds, more than half as slow as the speed of gravity, and that was due to several factors, like air resistance and the remaining structural integrity

[Achisachis73]

@AsEasyAsEasyIs I lived thorugh those riots and I will tell you that the media blew this way out of proportion. They punished the rest of the population in the LA metropolitan area when the riots where only in a few blocks in south central area. It was useful for them to see the reaction of the masses during the curfew. Social experiment.

[Achisachis73]

@AirForcedude5 They will not fall straight down. Make a simple experiment with popsicle sticks, build a TALL structure glue them together like you said "several small structures together" and then burn the middle really fast with a torch and see what happens . Another thing, The collapse of the twin towers was faster than the speed of gravity.