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originally posted by: dfnj2015
originally posted by: opethPA
It seems like common sense to me but Conspiracy Theorists get stuck on the "jet fuel cant melt steel" idea.
For a collapse to occur it doesn't need to melt steel, it only needs to weaken it enough to make a collapse possible.
Regardless, steel reinforced columns do not collapse at free-fall speed. If the building tipped over it would be believable.
It's doesn't matter anyway. Israel got exactly what it wanted.
google "9/11 purim children"
originally posted by: xdriver14
The real issue as I see it, is as follows; Most of the jet fuel burned up on impact. It started fires in the offices, desks paper etc. Office furnishings do not burn very hot. The steel in those buildings was massive, the central columns were feet thick and many hundreds of feet tall. The amount of heat that the steel structure could absorb before it reaches a dangerous temperature is enormous.
Furthermore the damaged or weakened steel would be at or above the impact point, all the steel below that point was undamaged. There is zero chance the upper floors could fall through all those undamaged lower floors. Fire had nothing to do with the towers collapsing.
originally posted by: PsychicCroMag
Almost all the kerosene fuel was consumed in the initial fireball outside the building. There is a picture of a woman standing ih the hole the plane made looks like the fire is out there,Paper carpet and desks don't melt or weaken steel-was a low temp black smoke fire firefighters said they could put out. How do you turn 32 acres of 4in thick concrete into dust? surely not with kerosene.
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: FyreByrd
I can melt steel with a paper match.
I don't see why 10,000 gallons of jet fuel couldn't heat steel to the temperature where it would deform and lose its structural integrity in an office building with elevator shafts providing a passable chimney.
So black smoke means no fire low temps does it Average office fire can reach a 1000 c.
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: neutronflux
Citing Plato is not good enough for you?
LOL, it's so blatantly obvious that your only goal here is to stir the pot in defense of the official fairy tale.
originally posted by: Salander
If you were certain that I don't know what I'm talking about, you would not be wasting your time replying.
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: neutronflux
If it is possible for fire to cause the collapse of modern steel high rise buildings, why are you unable to prove it?