Study Faults Bolts in WTC Collapse

Aw, heck, let's get this over with and blame God for gravity. This part is troubling--

A federal investigation said the towers' unconventional design contributed to the collapse, noting weak floor supports gave way during the attacks — a similar conclusion to the one drawn by the MIT researchers in their upcoming report.

I'm not sure which federal investigation they're talking about, but as I have posted in the past, everything presented so far concludes that the tower's perfomance far exceeded its design specifications. Yes, it fell, but it cannot be said that it was designed in a way that was knowingly detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare. As the FEMA report (again, the only one I know of--there may be others) notes, other buildings may have stood up longer or not, but there's basically no way of knowing without doing a full scale test of DRIVING PLANES INTO BUILDINGS! In retrospect, given what has been discovered, there are some changes that can be made to building design that provide additional protection for occupants at a reasonable cost, but absent the IMPACT CAUSED BY CRAZED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS FLYING FUEL-LADEN MULTI-TON BOMBS into the towers, there was no way to validate the benefit of such changes.

As always, there seems to be an undying urge to blame someone other than the culprit--in this case, I would have to say it was Boeing for not producing a Nerf airliner powered by rubber bands. They recklessly endanger millions every day by sealing people into non-squishy tubes full of flammable stuff.
posted by Terry at 4:48:00 PM