[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
I think the only way to knock them over would have been taking out, say, the left side of the first five floors (so all the weight is on the right side).

That's the point Phoenix, even that would not have caused the building to fall over, only down. Taking out one side of the bottom five floors and would have definetly changed the center of gravity enough to tip the building. But before it could reach the point where it could fall over, all the internal weight bearing structures would have collapsed and brought it basically straight down. Very similer to what we saw happen. Perhaps the pile would have been a bit more spread out. Maybe those buildings around it that fell a few hours later would have come down right away. But it wouldn't have landed on wall street or anything.

Geoschmo