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originally posted by: wmd_2008
a reply to: Elbereth
You mean cutting with a thermic lance like this
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Elbereth
And yes, the guy squatting is running a thermal lance. The picture angle, or pixilation, is hiding the long thin lance.
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Elbereth
Can you give the context of the picture, evidence who took the image, where the image was captured, when the image was taken, prove the image is authentic and not manipulated, where the image was uploaded from.
originally posted by: Elbereth
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Elbereth
Where in this article, news.bbc.co.uk... does it mention molten metal. The caption states workers cleaning wreckage. That usually involves cutting steel. Prove otherwise.
The image was provided in response to Pilgrum's claim that "Evidence of molten metal 'long after collapses' seems to be founded purely on doctored photographs..." Considering that the photograph is from the BBC, I think it is unlikely to have been doctored. I see no evidence of cutting devices in the image, and I seriously doubt if there was any activity of that type going on that the two workers pictured would be standing in such close proximity to it.
The image is titled "Investigations began as the wreckage was cleared," not, as you claim "workers cleaning wreckage."
Why did you mischaracterize the title of the photo, neutronflux?
So are these two workers actually investigators inspecting a suspicious, very hot and glowing area on what looks to be a large girder, or is this simply part of the debris removal process being depicted? I'm not sure.
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originally posted by: Elbereth
originally posted by: Pilgrum
a reply to: Elbereth
Evidence of molten metal 'long after collapses' seems to be founded purely on doctored photographs and hearsay statements.
Doctored? BBC using AP image. Maybe there is some type of debris removal cutting device I am missing in the image?
BBC News: World Trade Center Puzzle Lingers
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Hearsay? I guess, technically.
Knight Ridder Newspapers: Recovery worker reflects on months spent at Ground Zero
Underground fires raged for months. O'Toole remembers in February seeing a crane lift a steel beam vertically from deep within the catacombs of Ground Zero. "It was dripping from the molten steel," he said.
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D-Day: NY Sanitation Workers' Challenge of a Lifetime
New York City Department of Sanitation spokeswoman Kathy Dawkins: “Once the area was cleaned, normal commercial trash collections resumed by the haulers that are licensed and regulated by the Trade Waste Commissioner,” Dawkins says. But for about two and a half months after the attacks, in addition to its regular duties, NYDS played a major role in debris removal — everything from molten steel beams to human remains — running trucks back and forth between Ground Zero and Fresh Kills landfill, which was reopened to accommodate the debris.
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GCN: Technology, Tools and Tactics for Public Sector IT
'In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten steel,' Fuchek said.