# 9/11  controlled demolition?

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**Created:** [July 11, 2005, 6:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/9-11-controlled-demolition/724 "2005-07-11T06:40:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![vq30de](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/9-11-controlled-demolition/724/24 "2005-07-12T17:39:15Z")

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> [@Denton](#):
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> I will say this. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me that a building of that size falls straight down and all the debris is concentrated in a relatively small area.

The building was engineered to collapse that way rather than crushing everything around it, or so says my structures professor…

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