# Skyscrapers on fire, not collapsing

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscrapers-on-fire-not-collapsing/553541
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [September 12, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscrapers-on-fire-not-collapsing/553541 "2010-09-12T22:53:57Z")
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### Author: ![Mozart1220](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Mozart1220](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mozart1220)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyscrapers-on-fire-not-collapsing/553541/463 "2010-09-27T22:05:57Z")

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> [@pikey\_pete](#):
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> i just want to make one point: No one had ever run an airliner into a skyscraper before. All the theory in the world is just that, theory. Until you have an actual example of what happens when you smack a jet liner full throttle into a skyscraper, you just cant be 100% sure of what is going to happen. That being said, WTC 1 & 2 behaved just like engineering, physics ad material sciences predicted they would.

Yup, just like the magic bullet. Ah…the Warren Commission trained you well.

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