Creative Speculation

... which is just the right prerequisite for believing that he must be right because he's an engineer.

Skyline Towers was the total collapse of a structurally independent section of the building. That photo shows the adjacent section which survived because it was structurally independent, on the other side of an expansion joint. But partial versus total has absolutely nothing to do with Cole's claims, anyway. That collapse was exactly like the WTC towers and Verinage demolitions, and many partial collapses like Ronan Point in one important way: Falling mass created a dynamic force that was more than the structure below could absorb.

It's clear that you're never going to understand why Cole's experiments are idiotic, but surely you can see that there must be something wrong with his claim that such things are impossible?

Can you not, or can you just not admit it?