posted 09-09-2002 07:52 PM
I'm kind of tapped out on the survivor stories right now. I know a lot of what I am hearing (and not hearing) is motivated by TV ratings. I feel like much of the media is jerking me around right now, so I have been looking looking elsewhere...I found links I think are interesting & some of you might dig them too. Not human interest type stuff - more techy, data, etc.. Geek alert.
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html
This is an awesome article about why the buildings collapsed. Talks about the claim that jet fuel melted the steel (not true!), why it couldn't have tipped over, and more.
http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/9-11/default.htm#
Pictures taken of WTC and Pentagon sites from the IKONOS satellite
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/cortlandt.html
Cortlandt station (under WTC). This one was interesting to me becuase a)I was pretty familiar with this station and can easily remember the layout, and b) because I'm a geek who likes NY subway history. It's amazing how fast they re-built the track here.
http://www.constructioninst.org/WTCReport.pdf
Report by the ASCE on the rebuilding of the WTC. A bit dry, but it brings up all sorts of reasons why you would rebuild differently. Even what we want from a building has changed in the last 30 years, not to mention the need to have new stuff that could help you deal with bio attacks and such.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
NOVA program "Why the Towers Fell". I haven't gotten thru all of this yet. Does have an interview with T Eagar - the guy who wrote the article I liked (above)
And a few articles from the New Yorker that I like http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020729ta_talk_goldberger
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http://www.newyorker.com/PRINTABLE/?FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/010924fr_archive05
about Afghanistan. A friend e-mailed me this not long after the attacks last year. I was eager for information about Afghanistan and this article was good at creating a picture of what it's like, who is involved...
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