Reply #364: It may be, but

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The article is full of disinformation. I remember discussing it with people when it came out. I was astonished, because I'd been keeping up with the several structural investigations through the New York Times and other sources, and the fire magazine article just didn't jive. The author had some axe to grind.

As for your steel building comment -- the WTC collapse was way outside the scope of any building fire or collapse that's ever happened on planet earth. It can't be compared to anything else. The engineers say that everything that happened is explainable, given the scale and magnitude of the disaster. Just because nothing like it has ever happened BEFORE means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. There is no architectural disaster that can be compared to it, anywhere, because no buildings of that size ever sustained any damage of that magnitude before.