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Also, posting a pic taken at the WTC after the steelworkers had cut those beams to help remove the debris, does not really help your case.
originally posted by: Flatcoat
a reply to: cardinalfan0596
Also, posting a pic taken at the WTC after the steelworkers had cut those beams to help remove the debris, does not really help your case.
That's just an assumption made by debunkers. For a start, if you look at the photo you'll see that the column is in the middle of a pile of debris. There's no way they climbed over that just to get to that one column. They would have cleared it first. Secondly there is absolutely no reason for a steelworker to waste so much time and energy making a perfect 45 degree cut. It'd take twice as long and use twice as much gas and would be a very dangerous way to do it. The column would telescope vertically and you wouldn't know where it was going to fall.
originally posted by: loveguy
Ain't it telling a story;
Take traditional building practices and toss them away.
"We need these things to pancake" i assume was somewhere in the initial schematics?
"No conclusive evidence was found to indicate that pre-collapse fires were sever enough to have a significant effect on the microstructure that would have resulted in weakening of the steel structure." NIST NCSTAR 1-3C, p. 235
no evidence the type of joining methods, materials, or welding procedures used was improper NIST 1-3 p.99
recovered bolts were stronger than typical. NIST 1-2 p.133
"no core column examined showed temp. above 250C" NIST 1-3 6.6.2
NCSTAR1-3 7.7.2 "because no steel was recovered from WTC7,it is not possible to make any statements about it's quality"
" The NIST reports were peer reviewed by "5" individual subject matter experts CONTRACTED by NIST" NCSTR1A xxxi
Shyam Sunder and the HYPOTHESIS crew at 2008 NIST technical briefing
"the phenomenon that we saw on 9/11 that brought this particular building down was really thermal expansion, which occurs at lower temperatures."
You don't KNOW the reason why it was cut like that
As for where it would fall ,what if a crane was already in position to lift it
It would be a complete waste of time
.lookie who is back.
Bob....are you ready to actually look at the evidence this time?
you might want to make directional cuts that will give you SOME idea of exactly where its going to fall.
When you are cutting steel that still sticks in the air 50-70 feet...you might want to make directional cuts that will give you SOME idea of exactly where its going to fall.
originally posted by: Flatcoat
a reply to: wmd_2008
You don't KNOW the reason why it was cut like that
I've done quite a bit of steelwork over the years, and I can not think of one good reason to cut the column like that. It would be a complete waste of time and effort. And still doesn't explain why they picked that one column in the middle of a huge pile of debris without clearing access first.
As for where it would fall ,what if a crane was already in position to lift it
Again, why the weird 45 degree cut, and why not lower down instead of that awkward height?
obviously you are someone whom has NEVER dealt with OSHA!!!
nothing fell by a means of someone cutting at that site.....specially on unstable structural debris with HUNDREDS of people working around you......everything was tethered off from above and lowered after so NOTHING fell after it was cut.