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Originally posted by GoodOlDave
The steel used in the WTC weren't I beams but box columns
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
and they were four times as large and ten times thicker.
By myself in my last post above :
And I posted years ago already, that the right thermobaric device, placed in, or around a thick steel boxed-column, will shatter it as if it were made of glass, instead of steel.
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Originally posted by LaBTop
We have discussed the thermobaric viewpoint extensively in the past, thus I can give you a few very good leads :
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Tom Bedlam :
However, just for fun, I found some research being done on drilling into box girders and flooding them with thermobarics a split second before you detonate them - guess what - it shatters steel box girders like glass.
What a weird thing to research.
In the heat of the discussion, I never was able afterwards to ask TB for the source of his research. However I found some comparable notes in my research. In that case, a certain thermobaric composition could shatter these huge steel boxed columns also like glass, but in this case the thermobaric explosion went off outside the columns. The explosion front velocity in this case is so high, that nothing but solid rock could resist it.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
As far as the video in the OP is concerned, it's GAME OVER for the truster camp.
Originally posted by ohhwataloser
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
The steel used in the WTC weren't I beams but box columns, and they were four times as large and ten times thicker.
note the steel got smaller and thinner the higher you went. halfway up the building the steel was typically 12x36 and only 2 inches thick.
I don't think your qualified to tell how much it would take. even if it did take 20 times as much....who cares? also if you watched about 12 minutes into the video, he shows how box columns could be attacked. And this is just some guy coming up with ideas. Hes just showing its possible, not how it happened.
i will even bite on your senerio, I will claim no one would notice, put your "rings" above the ceiling around the column right at the top of the deck...99% of people won't see it and the maintence guys up in the ceiling, he probally won't see it, whos gonna think anything of something close to the top of the deck anyways? I don't understand, have you ever looked above the ceiling in any office building? do you understand what maintence guys do? I don't see who else would be in the ceiling besides them. Your full of it dave.
Again I don't think your qualified to make such assumptions, and i believe you changing the subject. the video is about proving the "thermite can't do that" theory wrong, such as in the nat geo program. Which you can't even deny (wait wait... im sure you will) it does with flying colors.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
This in no way invalidates the statement that the box columns in the towers were completely different than the type shown in this video, making it an apples to oranges comparison.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
I am going by the assumption that the size of the demolition package shown is the standard size, and I can definitely say it will take twenty of those to defeat a box column of the size used in the core columns. Any smaller and they'd be ineffective, and any larger and they'd scream HERE I AM to any passersby.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
All right, here's a served-on-a-silver-platter chance for you to show I'm full of it. Please post the inspection rotation of the towers and list what they would inspect. If the list doesn't contain metal fatigue and water damage...and those very joints where the horizontal braces connected to the vertical columns would be the spots they'd be inspecting for this...then I'll wholeheartedly eat my words. Otherwise I'm going to assume they inspect what everyone else inpects, and I'm going to have to assume that once seen, an inspector is going to ask, "what the heck is that"?
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
I'm not saying that thermite can't defeat structural steel.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
I'm saying it can't defeat structural steel in the way you conspiracy people are claiming it did.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
These were *occupied* buildings, and claiming that anyone could sneak into an occupied building and plant all these explosives everywhere without anyone noticing what was going on is far fetched in the extreme.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
All your video showed is that thermite can destroy a small I beam laid out in the middle of a field. All right, fine, but claiming that this is remotely applicable to how the WTC could have come down IS conspiracy mongoring, whether you want to admit the fact or not.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
This is why you never have been, nor ever will be credible in any residual form.
The perimeter columns were box columns, but the core columns employed box and I-beam columns.
Maybe at the base of the towers. But the higher the buildings went, the thickness went down.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
So are you trying to say the core columns did NOT have box columns?
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
And as I've proven ad nauseum, none of the steel from any of the core columns recovered during the cleanup of ground zero showed any damage from explosives.
Originally posted by turbofan
reply to post by pteridine
The red chips in the dust are energetic. The DSC proves it and the high mag. images prove the structure
cannot be paint.
You still have not visited my thread to debate the science after three invites.
Thread title, "Jones' Sceince Paper: Common Arguements Addressed"
Within that thread we can put to rest your claims of combustion and oxygen presence during the DSC tests.
Barium is often found in high voltage related work
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The red chips are energetic; they are burning. Jones' energetics prove that they are burning. Peanut butter in DSC under a stream of air is also energetic but it is not thermite, either. The images do not prove that the chips are thermite. What Jones calls aluminum looks like an aluminosilicate.
I did read Jones comments and can see his tap dancing. The part about why the chips did not completely combust is a smokescreen. The flaws in the energetics calculations were hand waved away by some comments that have no basis in fact. More smoke screen.
Thermite Proven! Jones Science Proves Red Thematic Material not just Red Paint Chips,
is also energetic but it is not thermite, either. The images do not prove that the chips are thermite.
I did read Jones comments and can see his tap dancing.
Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by impressme
Your threads did not show my comments to be incorrect. Your desire to reach your predetermined conclusions clouds your judgement and distorts your reasoning skills.
Originally posted by turbofan
I can show scientifically that any combustable material by ambient
oxygen was insignificant in the experiment.
Your threads did not show my comments to be incorrect.
Your desire to reach your predetermined conclusions clouds your judgement and distorts your reasoning skills.
Hes just showing its possible, not how it happened.