Beijing's Mandarin Oriental Hotel today (pics)

[underpants]

A general view shows the Mandarin Oriental Hotel which caught fire in Beijing February 10, 2009. Fire consumed a building in Beijing that formed part of Central China Television's new headquarters, as residents launched fireworks throughout the city to celebrate the Lantern Festival on Monday evening. The Mandarin Oriental had been due to open this year.
REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA)

[Bluebear]

1. What a sad sight :(

[LakeSamish706]

2. Damn, it's still standing to.... That fire must have been hot as hell....

Hmmmmm Wonder why WTC 7 fell down so easily?

[TrogL]

5. Damn you beat me to it - it's a different style of construction

If WTC and been properly built, it probably wouldn't have fallen down.

[anonymous171]

6. Because the reptillians planted explosives throughout the building.

[Ediacara]

7. Because no one was fighting the fire in WTC 7

There weren't massive flows of debris hitting this hotel.

Etc.

[LakeSamish706]

9. Lol... Yeah ok.... But still, I'm surprised it didn't fall into itself.... n/t

[Ediacara]

10. If you let a building burn uncontrolled and allow several hundred tons of debris fall on it from....

...300 meters in the air.... it's likely to collapse.

[LakeSamish706]

11. Based on the Youtube video of the hotel burning.... see URL

Just how the hell do you figure that they were fighting this fire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B1OnhSucP8

[Ediacara]

13. Since the camera is probably a kilometer away....

your point is.... pointless.

[TrogL]

3. dupe

see post 2

[DS1]

4. Insurance fraud

Your mandatory, yet half-serious :tinfoilhat: reply

[LakeSamish706]

That crossed my mind, since it was supposed to have been ready for....

the Olmpyics and was not..... Would not surprise me to find it was intentionally torched.

[LeftyMom]

15. This probably isn't the best time to open a gigantic luxury hotel

:shrug: It wouldn't surprise me much.

[Zywiec]

8. All the tin foil was already discussed ad-nauseum at this link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x233360

:puke:

[underpants]

16. I...uh, I ....

I didn't mean to provoke that in any way. It honestly never crossed my mind

[earth mom]

12. Molten steel, huh? nt

[K Gardner]

14. Thanks.. I hadn't even heard about this !