What if the WTC towers had fallen over, rather than imploded?

[Berkut]

My memory is a bit iffy on this, but if they could hit a few blocks away, they could have taken Wall Street with them.

That would have saved more money than it cost.

Could Ossama have prevented the financial meltdown???

[grumbler]

He tried his best, and was cursed for it. 

[Warspite]

He tried his best, and was cursed for it. 

True genius is never understood in its own time.

[garbon]

True genius is never understood in its own time.

Perhaps if his attack had been a little more direct.

[The Brain]

As has been said they couldn't have fallen over.

[Iormlund]

No need for the Towers to fell over, if the planes had struck simultaneously once everyone was at work and done it as low as possible (avoiding evacuation and accelerating collapse) the attack might have caused as many victims as a small nuclear warhead in a normal city.

[PDH]

What if the towers burned down, fell over, then sank into a swamp?

[Ed Anger]

What if the towers burned down, fell over, then sank into a swamp?

Swamp Thing would have been PISSED.

[Iormlund]

PDH it depends on whether they had been poisoned and shot four times prior to that.

[Ed Anger]

What if: Isengard had defended itself better from walking trees?

[The Minsky Moment]

My memory is a bit iffy on this, but if they could hit a few blocks away, they could have taken Wall Street with them.

That would have saved more money than it cost.

Could Ossama have prevented the financial meltdown???

Wall Street is a bit of a Potemkin village.  Trading on the NYSE is mostly electronic these days, and is duplicated on other exchanges anyway.  And many of the big financial institutions and their service providers are in midtown - including the former Bear Stearns, although Lehman was still downtown in that time period (in fact they were next door to WTC)

Goldman was is still is headquartered on Broad Street though, so the Huffpost/Rolling Stone crowd would have been pleased.

[The Brain]

My memory is a bit iffy on this, but if they could hit a few blocks away, they could have taken Wall Street with them.

That would have saved more money than it cost.

Could Ossama have prevented the financial meltdown???

Goldman was is still is headquartered on Broad Street

I see.

[Siege]

What if: Isengard had defended itself better from walking trees?

Then there would have not been any rohirrim at Pelennor Fields, and the whole of middle earth would have eventually fallen into Sauron's hands. It would have ended in a cold war with the elves from that island in the West were all elves were fleing to. Nuclear winter being the most likely end after intercontinental spells were used by both sides.

[Neil]

What if: Isengard had defended itself better from walking trees?

Then there would have not been any rohirrim at Pelennor Fields, and the whole of middle earth would have eventually fallen into Sauron's hands. It would have ended in a cold war with the elves from that island in the West were all elves were fleing to. Nuclear winter being the most likely end after intercontinental spells were used by both sides.

Wrong.  Valinor is militarily superior to any possible combination of forces from Middle Earth.  At some point, the Valar would simply annihilate Sauron and his armies, regardless of what happened in the War of the Ring.  The main result would be the extinction of the Western races of Men, as well as hobbits and those Elvish tribes who had not yet migrated to Valinor.

[Ed Anger]

Nerds.