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PAINFUL DECEPTIONS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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If this woman had tossed a steel beam off the edge, it would have hit the ground about eight seconds later.
The formula to figure this out is very simple if we ignore air resistance: 94 floors at 12 feet per floor is 1,128 feet.
Divide that by 16 ...
and take the square root ...
and we get 8.4 seconds. This means that the North Tower collapsed as fast as objects fall when there is no air resistance. |
