Magorian Aximand said:
Steel is roughly three times as dense as aluminum. According to the impact depth equation you keep citing, an aluminum object would only need to be three times as long as a steel block is thick in order to break all the way through. 767's range from 159 ft in length all the way up to 201 ft.
If your own simplified idea of the events is to be taken seriously, the wall of the tower would have to be more than 53 ft thick in order to stop the plane from penetrating.
Now, the plane is not a solid chunk of aluminum, but neither was the wall a solid chunk of steel. Further, this is an incredibly high mass, if low density object. Planes are ******** huge. There is no reason to think it would be unable to punch through the wall, especially because the difference in length/thickness is so great. This is behaving more like a wrecking ball than a bullet. It is a high mass object, and it uses kinetic energy (which is not analyzed by the impact depth equation) to cause the damage.
you are trying hard arent you? what is the density of the plane? it is a tube that can easily be crashed. you need structural resistense to penetrate something. an aluminum tube can easily bend. it is not dense. it is empty. it is just a shell. even bird crashes cause heavy damage to the planes.
the building is close to being a chunk of steel. it is a steel net. it has 4 layers consisting 2 columns each adding upto 8 columns each thicker than tank armour. and the collapse? are you aware of how huge this building is and also how resistent steel is? IT CANT TURN INTO DUST UPON COLLAPSING!
carosene melting tons of steel.
"collapse due structural damage" and the building (marble, steel, concrete, wood etc) turn into uniform dust?
both towers uniformly? is this how a collapse occurs?
i rest my case. and it is so weird that not a single forumite agrees.
good bye.