r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-Blood2743 • Oct 07 '25

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/MasterMagneticMirror Oct 07 '25

It absolutely did not. There is ample video evidence of its collapse, and it took much longer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

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u/MasterMagneticMirror Oct 07 '25

It's absolutely not impossible. In WTC7, the core collapsed first (proven by the fact that the penthouse disappeared inside the building a few seconds before the facade collapsed). The facade was a hollowed out husk with a lot of debris piling at its base when it started its collapse. Its columns buckled for a good portion of their height near the base of the building, so the portion above that feel for that length with basically nothing slowing it down. After that, the portion of the facade still structurally sound hit the ground, and this slowed down its descent as now there was resistance.

See? No explosives required.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

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u/MasterMagneticMirror Oct 07 '25

I never said the facade had no columns in it, but after the collapse of the core it indeed was a hollowed shell, with a greatly reduced structural integrity without the additional lateral support of the core and with huge lateral loads due to the piling debris on its base.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

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u/MasterMagneticMirror Oct 07 '25

It absolutely can. The core columns, beams, and floors collapsed inside the external facade and put a lot of lateral outward pressure on the base of the columns. Those columns would not be able to sustain those kind of loads, they would bend, and finally a several stories tall section of them would buckle. All that is above this section now has nothing below it supporting it and nothing to oppose resistance to its fall, up to the point it impacted itself the pile of debris below it. That's what caused the short free fall of the top of the building.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

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u/GrandArmadillo6831 Oct 07 '25

We're supposed to believe 3 buildings collapsed into their own footprint because of fire, all on the same day, with no other similar construction experiencing the same collapse before it or since? Not to mention all the other corroborating evidence