On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:40:51 UTC, David Hansen
wrote:

: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:20:54 -0700 someone who may be "Roger T."
: wrote this:-
:
: While I agree that there are sometimes overblown claims of safety
: your examples are debatable.
:
: Rather like the Twin Towers? Able to take the force of a jet aircraft
: impact?
:
: They did.
:
: However, they did not survive the subsequent fire.

Damn! I just posted almost the identical thing. Sorry, David, should
have read your post first.

: There are a whole host of things one could crash an aeroplane into,
: as well as Windscale. Chemical works (an oil refinery for example)
: and suspension bridges are two obvious things.

I wonder about suspension bridges. I suspect the wires are just too
much an area of concentrated strength, and would probably cheesecutter
the wings off. It would still be a heck of a mess, of course.

: So-called security measures are not going to prevent disasters. Only
: draining the swamp will work.

Well said, that man.

Ian