Luxury Tree House

When I was a kid, I really wanted a tree house for me and my friends. It would be the ultimate hideout. I knew my parents couldn't afford to make or buy one, but I didn't let that stop me. Instead, I told all eight of the neighborhood kids to go scouring through their house for wood and logs. I looked in alleyways and in people's yards, feeling like a spy on a top mission. When we all met together about a half hour later, meaning our search couldn't have possibly been that fruitful, I went into a long speech about how I wanted our dream tree house to look.

This pioneer log home of British Columbia is exactly what I dreamed about that day!

It's no wonder me and my friends gave up on making the tree house after the adults busted us and made us put the wood back where we found it.

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Somebody tell Rosie O'Donnell about this quick! Gotta be another Presidential conspiracy, cuz everybody knows that fire can't melt steel or concrete!
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Uh, no, Dave. This is the work of the eeeeeevil gubmint, see. Rosie says that this is only the SECOND time in all of recorded history that fire has melted steel. She's been hitting the Krispy Kremes a bit hard and might be hyperglycemic, though.
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Good stuff Miss Cellania :) worth noting in your writup though - the fire caused the collapse, not an explosion. It may sound odd, but that much fuel doesn't actually explode, but it does burn very well! The fumes from spilled gas DO explode, so an almost empty gas can is much more dangerous than a full one.
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The loads on connecting bolts are much higher here than in WTC buildings - a 30m + span of freeway connected to too pillars at one end as opposed to floor sections connected to outer walls and central columns all around outer + inner perimeter. Any distortion is therefore magnified by the enormous weight of the road section - basically this thing sagged a bit and slipped off its supports (which are left standing - bet they'll just stick a new bit of road onto them). Lighter weight floor sections with evenly distributed bracing are far less liable to this kind of collapse.

More importantly, though, where's the pancake effect? This thing just flopped down onto the freeway below - which remained standing so that the fire dept. could walk along it with hoses etc. But the drop was much more than that between floors of WTC, and the mass of the collapsed span enormously greater than a falling bit of floor.
So I honestly don't think this validates any official explanation for Trade Center collapses
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