[_Jim]

Why hasn't anyone said WEIGHT.

It *DID*, after all, take 55 minutes for the south tower to collapse - the fire first had to take it's toll/do it's damage before the eventual collapse ...

What kind of property/strength changes does steel go through in the temp range of between 1000 and 2000 degrees?

Or - why not 'weight in motion' (impact force/inertia) as the first fire-weakened middle floors collpased - followed by the MONSTEROUS weight of the remaining floors as they come down and gained speed ...

[summer]

AfterI suffered repeated abuse and insults on another thread by a poster named HalfIrish -- insults, BTW, for which Hugh Akston kindly unsuccessfully attempted to intervene and obtain an apology for me from HalfIrish -- I have repeatedly -- REPEATEDLY -- and nicely, asked HalfIrish NOT to write to me; TO LEAVE ME ALONE.

I don't mind that he writes to other people. Nor do I care if he post on threads I start, so long as he addresses his posts to someone ELSE or to all.

But, despite my REPEATED requests and THE INTERVENING OF THIS MATTER BY ANOTHER, here is HalfIrish, posting FOUR TIMES to me on this thread.

Consequently, please ban HIM for AT LEAST A YEAR, and DELETE his posts to me here, numbers 35, 36, 38, and 39.

I do not know why SOME people do NOT respect my POLITE REQUEST TO: Please not write to me anymore.

Had he respected that, I would not NOW have to RESORT to asking you to BAN him for AT LEAST A YEAR until DEC 2002.

Thank you!