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I dunno — to me, both structures behave as my intuition tells me they should. I've never felt confused by the progression of the Twin Towers collapses, based only on knowing that static forces (e.g. a brick resting on one's head) and dynamic forces (e.g., the same brick dropped onto my head) can...

I've heard this a bunch of times. I'm not sure what such resources would look like. The deep explanations for the collapses of the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center are highly technical. PBS Nova did a pretty good job covering the high points for the Twin Towers in "Building on Ground Zero"...

Is the lateral ejection of Kapla planks at 0:33–0:34 in this video evidence that explosives were used? Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EBnRVLwVn0

These bare assertions assume, without evidence, that the framing sections didn't and couldn't have come apart upon impact. Unless you have everyday personal experience with large structural elements falling hundreds of feet and then hitting other buildings, you can't say what "would have"...

My personal favorite. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x09n2EG-Ajo

(Emphases mine) These are an awful lot of personal thought experiments hinging on what "would" have happened. The details of 110-story steel skyscrapers collapsing are not something that one can intuit via naive thought experiments. For example, claiming "the top part of the building would be...

Longtime lurker and admirer of the Metabunk All-Stars. I could not stay out of this one, however. This is bunk. I am an audio engineer. The frequencies on microphones for voice are rolled off no higher than 100Hz, the fundamental frequencies of male voices starting around 80Hz. An explosion —...