Ahhh, Burton. Good to hear you're safe and sound. So today, it seems as though the general population has declared themselves amateur architects. This is the latest argument I'm hearing: "Why didn't they think about this when they were building the World Trade Center towers?" C'mon, people. They didn't consider it because it didn't occur to them, and for godsake why would it? Can you imagine? Architect hovering over some blueprints, hardhat cocked to one side, he's scratching his head contemplatively and saying, "Yeah, these look fantastic, but what happens when two commercial airliners, with full tanks of jet fuel, going speeds upwards of 300 miles per hour crash into these towers at approximately the 82nd floor? What will happen to the building's infrastructure?" Expecting that architects would consider every bizarre possibility is silly. If you're building a house, you don't stand there watching the construction and say to your spouse, "Yeah, honey, it looks great, but what's going to happen to the stain finish on the deck if it starts to rain angry jackyls?" Some things just can't be predicted.
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