How did the World Trade Center collapse?

Pat Robertson told me the WTC collapsed because G*d willed it to collapse. We have committed grave offenses in the sight of the Lord, he said, e.g. eating meat on Fridays and not smearing ashes on our foreheads once a year. G*d is unhappy with us, Robertson said, and if we're not careful, something else might collapse next. He wasn't very specific on that.

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How did the World Trade Center collapse?

I would also point out that Barack Obama's original birth certificate (the one that lists his place of birth as "Ulan Bator, Mongolia and his mother's profession as "Hippy") was in the World Trade Center when it was blown up by ACORN at the direction of Bill Ayers.

The Windsor Building was of a similar truss design to the twin towers, the fire started 11 storeys from the top of the building, and it burned at temperatures of 800ºC for more than 18 hours [AFP]. The core of the building did not fail.

The fire in WTC 1 is reported to have burned at 800ºC and was located roughly 17 storeys from the top of the building meaning the inner core supported only 6 additional floors of weight above the fire zone in comparison to the Windsor Building. WTC 1 collapsed after only 85 minutes, reportedly through core failure.

Don't you find this odd?

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtc1_core.html

The Windsor Building was of a similar truss design to the twin towers, the fire started 11 storeys from the top of the building, and it burned at temperatures of 800ºC for more than 18 hours [AFP]. The core of the building did not fail.

The Windsor Building wasn't hit by an airplane that destroyed some of the uprights causing the others to have to carry more load. The airplane also blew off much of the sprayed on fire protection that would have still existed in the Windsor building.

Let's see.. steel protected by coating lasts 18 hours. Steel not protected by coating lasts only 45 minutes. That kind of gives you an idea how IMPORTANT fire protection is in a building, doesn't it?

In July of 1971, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) presented a national award judging the buildings to be "the engineering project that demonstrates the greatest engineering skills and represents the greatest contribution to engineering progress and mankind."3 Others noted that "the World Trade Center towers would have an inherent capacity to resist unforeseen calamities." This capacity stemmed from the use of special high-strength steels. In particular, the perimeter columns were designed with tremendous reserve strength whereby "live loads on these columns can be increased more than 2,000% before failure occurs."

Additionally this summary states that the perimeter columns softened, yet your findings (NIST) make clear that "most perimeter panels (157 of 160) saw no temperature above 250C".

To soften steel for the purposes of forging, normally temperatures need to be above 1100C (6). However, this new summary report suggests that much lower temperatures were be able to not only soften the steel in a matter of minutes, but lead to rapid structural collapse.