Reply #211: Just read a little about Controlled Demolition...

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Controlled demolition requires a great deal of planning and preperation. Many, many parts of a building have to be pre-cut with torches and charges have to detonate in a very specific preplanned way.

http://www.controlled-demolition.com/default.asp?reqLocId=7&reqItemId=20030225133807

Some quotes from the article:

Under CDI direction, Homrich/NASDI’s 21 man crew needed three months to investigate the complex and four months to complete preparations for CDI’s implosion design.

CDI’s 12 person loading crew took twenty four days to place 4,118 separate charges in 1,100 locations on columns on nine levels of the complex. Over 36,000 ft of detonating cord and 4,512 non-electric delay elements were installed in CDI’s implosion initiation system, some to create the 36 primary implosion sequence and another 216 micro-delays to keep down the detonation overpressure from the 2,728 lb of explosives which would be detonated during the demolition.

At 439 ft. tall Hudson’s is the tallest structural steel building ever imploded, eclipsing the record CDI set in 1997 with the felling 344 sq. ft. tall #500 Wood Street Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Those facts make it seem HIGHLY unlikely that this was controlled demo...