well, I dunno what you did know
but now you know that the reason the twin towers fell straight is that is precisely what they were designed to. Circle of steel supports around a hollow core means it's very hard from them to fall outwards. Specifically designed for major impacts and earthquakes (and a British architect, natch).

You don't seriously think architects use Jenga as a basis for building design, do you? although it could be funny I suppose...

So, sorry, whatever Bush and Cheney might be guilty of, it wasn't that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 16:31, 2 replies)

well put
it amazes me how many people fail to think that large buildings aren't designed (to some extent) to deal with the possibility of collapse or impact.

a point though. the architect more than likely wouldn't have had a great deal to do with making it not fall down in certain ways.

/civil engineer
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 16:39, closed)

I immediately stopped reading
When someone uses tumbling Jenga as the logic for an unbelievably complex skyscraper.

Let's compare a balloon and the earth - a tiny pin-prick, a fraction of the size of the balloon totally OBLITERATES the balloon.

Similarly, an asteroid the size of a mini would OBLITERATE THE WORLD!!!!!!!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 12:06, closed)