In message , at 11:52:56 on
Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Chris Tolley remarked:
: Rather like the Twin Towers? Able to take the force of a jet aircraft
: impact?

Which they did, remarkably well. What they didn't do was survive the
fire.

That does seem a bit like arguing that the people of Hiroshima survived
the dropping of the atom bomb and only died as a result of the
explosion. Unless you are suggesting that any architect who might have
envisaged an aircraft striking the WTC would not have foreseen that a
fire was likely.

You miss the point. The original assertion was about the *force* of the
impact.

The OP didn't say "able to survive the impact of a jet aircraft".
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Roland Perry