9/11: Inside Job?

[geerussell]

Not what I meant--what I mean is, per the pancake theory, the vertical beams should have been standing at least a little while after the collapse.

The vertical portions weren't single pieces. Each floor was its own set of bits that crumpled and got dragged down with the other stuff it was attached to until you just had a big pile of twisted crap at the bottom. This affect would be accelerated as each collapsing floor went down under the weight of all the floors above it.

This subject has been given plenty of excruciatingly detailed treatments in print and on tv with architects and engineers and you know, science. Here's just one example. It's lengthy and thorough and required reading for anyone entertaining conspiracy theories:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...w/1227842.html

There is simply no one with better than tin foil hat credibility pushing "alternative" theories to fuel-laden jumbo jets causing the collapse.