Third WTC Tower Collapse

[rabbitproof]

Kind of blows my mind I didn't know about third joint until this weekend when in conversation with a Muslim friend... this is wild. I was just at ground zero in December.

Did you guys know? I feel so ignorant. What else do you know and not know?

http://www.wtc7.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTC_7

[Flacolaco]

The building has 2-foot- (60-cm-) thick reinforced-concrete and fireproofed elevator and stairway access shafts, whereas the original building used only drywall to line these shafts. The stairways are wider than in the original building, to permit faster exits. Steel columns are encased in much thicker fire protection. The building is being promoted as the safest skyscraper in the U.S.[19] According to Silverstein Properties, the owner of the building, it "will incorporate a host of life-safety enhancements that will become the prototype for new high-rise construction".

Wow. Pretty cool.

[alexamenos]

I'm familiar with WTC7....

another thing most people don't know -- John F. Kennedy and John Connolly weren't the only guys shot in a flurry of bullets that November day in Dallas....a parade watchin' fellow by the name James Teague also took a bullet from Oswald's rifle (presumably).

[MavsX]

anything else?