09-06-2011, 09:45 PM
Kyle,
The compress air can be displaced by an entire floor at once... unlikely (pancake) or parts of a floor (more likely) and show large bursts through the windows... so the collapse need not be entirely uniform... but it's pretty fast and we don't get to see too much of it anyway before it is obscured by the falling dust.
Haritt admitted to me last Fall that the ejections could be compressed escaping air as easily as they can be exploding... rapidly expanding gas. One can't tell and the speed of the ejections doesn't appear to me to be an explosion... But I am not an expert.
Everyone has an opinion about what something look likes. Some people's opinions, for what it's worth are more informed and better observers. Lemkin said any child can see it was an explosion. I would rather not leave this determination to a child.
We can agree that the ejections were debris carried by AIR moving very rapidly... and the speed CAN be measured and compared experimentally to explosions. So why hasn't anyone done it?
The compress air can be displaced by an entire floor at once... unlikely (pancake) or parts of a floor (more likely) and show large bursts through the windows... so the collapse need not be entirely uniform... but it's pretty fast and we don't get to see too much of it anyway before it is obscured by the falling dust.
Haritt admitted to me last Fall that the ejections could be compressed escaping air as easily as they can be exploding... rapidly expanding gas. One can't tell and the speed of the ejections doesn't appear to me to be an explosion... But I am not an expert.
Everyone has an opinion about what something look likes. Some people's opinions, for what it's worth are more informed and better observers. Lemkin said any child can see it was an explosion. I would rather not leave this determination to a child.
We can agree that the ejections were debris carried by AIR moving very rapidly... and the speed CAN be measured and compared experimentally to explosions. So why hasn't anyone done it?