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Originally posted by Saltarello
Originally posted by roboe
reply to post by Saltarello
I've made it quite clear that the jet fuel only acted as an accellerant to the office fire.
You mentioned raging office fires. Will give you a clue, do you know what black smoke means coming off a fire right? Just in case I will spill the beans for you: means oxigen starved fire, wich means low temperature fire, wich, in any case, would have not melted structural steel. We dont use blast furnaces to make steel just for the kicks, its the only way to melt or bend structural steel, kerosene (jet fuel) just does not burn hot enough, and most of it was blown away in every direction on impact. But as said, enjoy your "bliss".
www.hse.gov.uk...
Large fires involving plastics produce copious quantities of black smoke, such smoke is likely to be more toxic than smoke from a fire involving wood, and would render escape and fire fighting very difficult.
Originally posted by flexy123
Originally posted by Heartisblack
Realistically, they were two buildings made of steel. How the # could they collapse in less then an hour without a bomb ?
And you think an average bomb would be less effective doing that as opposed to a whole JET filled with jet fuel burning for 50+ minutes?
Or reworded: You think that a Jet slammed into the towers and jet fuel burning for an hour would NOT accomplish that - although a bomb surely would bring the buildings down?
Originally posted by Darth_Prime
not nearly enough to gain high enough temperature to melt the steel
and create the river of melted iron
in order for the towers to collapse as they did, the inner core had to have been destroyed
Originally posted by clintdelicious
reply to post by flexy123
If you know about building design you should know that it would take more than jet fuel to collapse such a building. these arnt amll beams, they are massive and would take hours and hours to melt...
Originally posted by budro
It's not hard to understand why people believe the OS but come on, think out of the box for 1 minute.
We know jet fuel and everything flammable in that building can not burn hot enough to melt the steel, but let's pretend it was hot enough to weaken it. How then did all of the steel all the way to the bottom melt? Where did it go? The pictures are there of a few pieces of structural steel left remaining after it collapsed but where is the rest of it.
If you've ever seen the construction of a very small building then you know the steel beams encased in concrete could not just disappear. They are massive. So where are they and why did they fall apart even at the base where there was no fire. Also what caused the "oven" that was talked about under the rubble?
Jet fuel? Come on, if you take a gallon of jet fuel and ignite it it is gone in a split second as can be seen in the fireball. The heat source was gone. So office fixtures and building materials melted the steel at the bottom floors allowing a straight down collapse. Whatever
Originally posted by spoor
Originally posted by Darth_Prime
in order for the towers to collapse as they did, the inner core had to have been destroyed
Why do you claim that?
building 7 had a few isolated fires
and collapsed at a rate comparable to free fall
The only reason the CCTV building fire looks as spectacular as it does, is because it was filmed at night.
Originally posted by spoor
Originally posted by Darth_Prime
not nearly enough to gain high enough temperature to melt the steel
Who claims the steel melted?
and create the river of melted iron
What "river of melted iron" are you babbling about?