Posted on 04/15/2018 8:03:37 AM PDT by NRx
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Recently, Rosie O’Donnell, a co-host of ABC talk show The View, made comments on the show that renewed controversy over the collapse of World Trade Center 7.
While saying she didn’t know what to believe about the U.S. government’s involvement in the attacks of Sept. 11, she said, “I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7—building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes—7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.”
Okay, thanks.
We had a lot of fun with that one back in the day.
By ripping the side open, it made the bulkheads worthless. A head on strike would have crippled the ship...she would have stayed afloat.
Ships even then are built with a collision bulkhead near to the fore peak. The void space between the stem and the collision bulkhead was meant to absorb the energy of an allision/ collision and maintain the watertight boundary.
The allision with the berg raked down the side of the ship simultaneously opening several compartments to the sea. So much buoyancy lost pulled the ship down, with water overtopping the compartment bulkheads progressively flooding more compartments, the ship’s fate was sealed.
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