by Lionel Bascom — June 22nd, 2007 — 1 comment
The inhabitants of the Twin Towers might have survived the 9/11 attacks long enough to evacuate the buildings had 20,000 gallons of burning jet fuel had not ignighted and sent fire throughout the buildings.
This is the finding of a computer science professor at Purdue who created a computer animation of the attacks to determine, if possible, why the buildings collapsed after two planes were slammed into the structures. Christoph Hoffmann led a team of 10 professors of civil engineers, computer scientists and graduate students.
Their findings can be seen at :
news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007a/070612HoffmannWTC.html
Hoffmann is a professor of computer science and director of Purdue’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, a division of Information Technology at Purdue. He says the animation reveals more information than could be conveyed through a scientific simulation alone.
“Scientific simulations restrict us t showing the things that are absolutely essential to the engineer,” Hoffmann says. “This gives us a simulation that doesn’t deliver much visual information to a layperson. Our animation takes that scientific model and adds back the visual information required to make it a more effective communication tool.”
11:39 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News
The truth is that two jets did crash into the World Trade Center buildings, igniting the workplace of 3,000 individuals. Thus, these innocent victims lost their lives. Thus, their families have to cope with reliving the horror of that day each year on September 11. Thus, tens of thousands more individuals suffer from severe illnesses because they either responded to this crisis with bravery and determination, or they returned home to their apartments while toxic residue still wafted through the air.
No scientific animation can communicate the change associated with this truth. As George Bernard Shaw once asserted, “the problem with communication … is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
Jeanne · June 23rd, 2007 at 7:02 am