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Originally posted by subject x
I still have questions about the events of 9/11, but I'm convinced that the full truth of these events will never be known, and certainly won't be found on the internet.
Originally posted by subject x
Originally posted by Mary Rose
6. Office fires burn at low temperatures of 600-800 dF. Steel melts at 2750 dF. Jet fuel is an ordinary hydrocarbon; its maximal burning temperature is 1200 dF in open air. Neither jet fuel nor the burning contents of the buildings could have caused the towers’ steel structure to buckle or fail.
In reference to the above quote, I found this interesting bit when researching blacksmithing.
HEATING METAL
Temperatures can be judged by observing the colour of the metal as its temperature rises. This can only be learned by practice. The following guide uses terms typical of a smith's workshop.
Black heat (about 550-630°C). No red colour visible except faintly in the dark.
Dull red (about 680-740°C). Used for easy well-radiused bends in mild steel and for forging high-carbon steels.
Bright red (about 850-900°C). Used for simple forging operations, such as bending metal over the anvil, light punching and hot chiselling.
Bright yellow or near-welding heat (about 1 100-1200°C). The principal forging operations are carried out at this temperature, including drawing-down, upsetting, preparing scarfs for welding and punching heavy sections. High-speed steel is forged at this temperature but high-carbon steel must be kept lower.
Full-welding heat (about 1 300-1 500°C). If the blast is correct, the fire clean and compact, a few white bursting sparks will begin to appear. This indicates the correct temperature for welding most grades of mild steel. The surface of the metal appears to "sweat" in the fire.
Brilliant white heat (about 1 500°C). Used for welding wrought iron only and is much too high a temperature for other steels.
Note: A temperature of about 740-850°C is the range for hardening most carbon-tool steels before tempering.
source
From this it is plain to see that steel becomes weakened and is able to bend at much lower temperatures than it's melting point, which could easily cause a loss of structural integrity. For whatever it's worth...
I still have questions about the events of 9/11, but I'm convinced that the full truth of these events will never be known, and certainly won't be found on the internet. Any new investigation would be pretty pointless, as the physical evidence is long gone, leaving nothing tangible to investigate. Sad, but true.
Originally posted by subject x
reply to post by iamcpc
True, but you can find just as many experts that believe otherwise.
I'm not equipped to say who's right and who's wrong on the issue.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by subject x
I still have questions about the events of 9/11, but I'm convinced that the full truth of these events will never be known, and certainly won't be found on the internet.
Do you trust the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth?
Do we need to know the full truth? Don't we know enough?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Scanning this thread I can see that the 9-11 truth movement cannot succeed no matter what they do, no matter how objective they are, how thorough they are, how smart they are - if the general public expects them to prove their case in the manner that a prosecutor does when he/she stands up in court.
[edit on 5/18/2010 by Mary Rose]
Originally posted by iamcpc
The truth movement needs unity which it's not getting because of so many sources of horrible or inaccurate information within the truth movement.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by iamcpc
The truth movement needs unity which it's not getting because of so many sources of horrible or inaccurate information within the truth movement.
The truth movement is infiltrated and it will always be infiltrated, so I think the best thing for the public to do is understand this, use their own common sense, and not wait for the 9/11 truth movement to prove anything to them.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
Hey GoodOlDave, you're finally right!
But unlike yourself, there's no agenda except the truth.
This is exactly why I know the details of your own conspiracy claims better than you do, and yet only 1 out of 100 of you ever actually read the 9/11 commission report.
Originally posted by iamcpc
He says firefighters confirmed explosives (without citing a source).
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by Alfie1
It implies that the BBC made a mistake. In EVERY major news event, there are mistakes made by the media...normally in their haste to scoop the competition. FDNY had been saying that they were sure that WTC 7 was going to fall, someone garbled it and reported it as it had already fallen.
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
Originally posted by iamcpc
He says firefighters confirmed explosives (without citing a source).
Is an FDNY firefighter saying "clear out -- there's a bomb in the building" good enough for you?
OMG, the evidence for 9/11 being an inside job is SO overwhelming, I can't believe ANYONE still defends the Official Fairy Tale.
I'm convinced that some people just can't handle the truth.
[edit on 5/18/2010 by GoldenFleece]
Originally posted by Alfie1
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by Alfie1
It implies that the BBC made a mistake. In EVERY major news event, there are mistakes made by the media...normally in their haste to scoop the competition. FDNY had been saying that they were sure that WTC 7 was going to fall, someone garbled it and reported it as it had already fallen.
I agree but I was intrigued to know why iampc thought it constituted a "shade of grey".
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
Would that be like the Warren Commission Report? Wait, I'll bet you're one of the few who still believes in the Magic Bullet Theory even after E. Howard Hunt made a deathbed confession to his son that the CIA murdered JFK. His son also immediately recognized his father as one of the "three tramps" photographed on the grassy knoll.
Then there's RFK, MLK, Gulf of Tonkin, USS Liberty, Operation Northwoods, Oklahoma City, TWA 800, Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction" -- the list goes on and on.
How gullible are you, anyway?