interview with dr. judy wood and dr. greg jenkins - Journal of 9/11 ...

GJ: So in that ratio, if you do look at the numbers and you use your analysis for the
Kingdome…
JW: Which numbers?
GJ: On your website you had stated a certain average height of the Kingdome before
collapse, and a certain height…
JW: The center of it or just the average shape? And it really would have been lower if
you looked at the actual… I was looking at easy to find numbers, but the error would be
in favor of, it would make a thirty times bigger number.
GJ: Okay it would make it bigger than your 12%
JW: Because I have it that it’s too high already.
GJ: I see.
JW: Because the roof is very thin.
GJ: Yes, it is.
JW: And so if I’m saying just from the shape, you have the cylinder with the spherical
cap on it, and I’m saying it all is the same weight per volume. And the top part’s really
thin. You’re giving it too much benefit, so that’s making the center of it too high…
GJ: Correct, and I agree with that, I definitely agree that’s a good way to look at it.
JW: The error is in… the 30 is a low number.
GJ: Right. Now, on the rim of that, where you take the after-collapse height, the rim is
mainly structural concrete.
JW: I’m not talking about the whole volume of the thing, I’m talking about… there’s
quite a lot of places where somebody measured that. I didn’t measure it. According to
the reference I provided, that’s the number they gave. Then I look at the comparative
height. The towers were a whole lot taller to begin with. About four times or so?
GJ: The towers were 110 floors, roughly 12 feet, and so they were about 1350 feet tall.
JW: 1368.
GJ: Yes.
JW: I don’t remember exactly the equivalent in stories of the other one…