literally just semantics. who cares. i told you in my first post where you asked about whether or not theyre steel-frame that i knew they werent box girder like the empire state building. the idea that 200,000 tons of steel is weak enough to be obliterated by a tiny airplane just because the building is held up by massive pillars of steel instead of an evenly distributed skeletal structure is retarded. buildings like the wtc were originally advertised as being more resilient to potential impacts because the core support is insanely strong, with most of the critical load-bearing being done further inside the structure. with box girder an airplane will be hitting load-bearing columns the instant it impacts, while in core support it has to travel through the outer wall and then through all the trusses before it even touches a critical load-bearing member.
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