# Did anyone watch Nova's Why The Towers Fell?

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**Created:** [May 1, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-watch-novas-why-the-towers-fell/106607 "2002-05-01T01:29:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-watch-novas-why-the-towers-fell/106607/21 "2002-05-01T22:51:29Z")

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**Engineer’s pet peeve/nitpick:** The person responsible for ensuring the structural integrity of a building is not the architect, it’s the structural engineer.

I didn’t see Nova, but a few months ago I did see the TLC show that others have metioned in this thread. I droned on about it esoterically in [one of my LiveJournal entries](http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jaytee&itemid=31362).

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-watch-novas-why-the-towers-fell/106607/22 "2002-05-02T00:55:40Z")

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In the TLC show from a few months ago there was a particularly wrenching scene with the architect. As he’s describing some aspect of the buildings he says, “Well, the Twin Towers **are** the-” and then he corrects himself, “I mean the Twin Towers **were** , I still can’t get used to the idea that they’re gone…”

I think its a bit silly to point fingers at anyone but the terrorists. Crashing an airliner into it was something no one could have designed or planned for. And I don’t think it can (or should) be seriously considered in future building designs. Emphasis should be placed on **preventing** it from ever happening again (i.e. armed pilots, racial profiling etc.)

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