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Originally posted by 4hero
and thermite was most likely used to cut the beams.
No, the bombs were responsible for the explosions
and no, explosions are not necessarily normal in office fires,
the noise is attenuated cuz it's underground.
Originally posted by Darkwing01
News flash: Rapidly heating up material a) Vaporizes some of that material, creating gasses and b) Causes gasses already present to expand in keeping with those pesky little things called the gas laws...
HIGH explosives do NOT do their damage because of expanding gasses as low explosives do. They do their damage by virtue of the rapidity of the reaction itself which induces a high velocity shock wave which, by virtue of its being high frequency interacts readily with surrounding materials, something that is not true of the low velocity shock wave generated by low explosives.
Originally posted by Darkwing01
I thought that the mere fact that the sound was attenuated means it was not explosives.
Originally posted by Fluffaluffagous
Originally posted by 4hero
and thermite was most likely used to cut the beams.
No, the bombs were responsible for the explosions
So thermite was used to cut the beams. What were the bombs for then?
and no, explosions are not necessarily normal in office fires,
Yes they are. Your ignorance of this doesn't make you right.
Originally posted by Fluffaluffagous
Steel can be cut 2 ways. the most common is with cutter charges. It uses RDX or similar high explosive and copper. the copper is turned into a plasma by the explosion, and the directional nature of the shape charge drives it through the steel. But it can also be cut (sloppily) by a high explosive. Place enough in close proximity to the steel and the explosion creates a shockwave that essentially "tears apart" the steel.
Originally posted by 4hero
Erm, quite simple really, both were used in combination.
Originally posted by 4hero
Originally posted by Fluffaluffagous
Originally posted by 4hero
and thermite was most likely used to cut the beams.
No, the bombs were responsible for the explosions
So thermite was used to cut the beams. What were the bombs for then?
and no, explosions are not necessarily normal in office fires,
Yes they are. Your ignorance of this doesn't make you right.
Wow, I didnt expect you of all people to actually own up about thermite!
Erm, quite simple really, both were used in combination.
Originally posted by 4hero
Originally posted by Fluffaluffagous
Steel can be cut 2 ways. the most common is with cutter charges. It uses RDX or similar high explosive and copper. the copper is turned into a plasma by the explosion, and the directional nature of the shape charge drives it through the steel. But it can also be cut (sloppily) by a high explosive. Place enough in close proximity to the steel and the explosion creates a shockwave that essentially "tears apart" the steel.
So you agree that fire alone is not responsible for the simultaneous failing of all the crucial steel beams in the towers/WTC7.
Originally posted by Fluffaluffagous
Originally posted by 4hero
RDX is just a punt on your behalf, you have nothing to back this up, thermite is more probable based on particle findings.
Thermite doesn't explode brah. And thermite wasn't found either. Paint was found.
The recordings were captured at a safe distance from the towers, and they were still audible, and as for the brissance, you certainly had that in close proximity.
Delusionally wishing this to be true doesn't make it so...