Why can't you admit that you don't know? Ya'll take a listen to
this.
Because I
do. While the evidence of which you speak-which would, presumably, in
your world, prove that archons of the Bavarian Illuminati, using secret alien stealth technology, set charges in the buildings, and that the planes were an elaborate hoax and that Osama Bin laden (who bragged more than once about 9/11 on video-oh, I guess the U.S. government made those too?) was a patsy-the "evidence" of which you speak is completely unecessary:
We know planes hit the twin towers.
We know how much the planes and their fuel weighed, and how fast they were traveling.
We know the construction of the buildings, and where they were hit-in the case of South Tower, we know precisely where it was hit from video.
Because we know the weight of the planes, how fast they were traveling,where they hit, and how the buildings were constructed, we can calculate and/or model nearly precisely what sort of damages were done to the buildings on impact.
We can further calculate, given the materials inside the building, probable effects from impact on fireproofing, and fuel load, precisely how hot the fire might have gotten at ceiling level in the impact zones.
We can quickly determine from this the loss of strength to the steel-not "melting" but enough heating took place to approach melting and quickly cause a loss of integrity.
As an important digression, the way I got into device neutralization? Just an interest in
fire science-it was a requirement at Indian Point for me to be a firefighter, and I had to go to school for it every year-pretty much hated it. Most of the Hudson Valley, where I grew up, is dependent upon volunteer fire departments and ambulance corps, and we received better training than most volunteer firemen-I was coaxed into joining the local fire department through a sense of community obligation. Though the local fire department, I wound up taking classes in arson-investigation, and, after that, classes on recognizing explosive decices-from there it wasn't that big a step to neutralizing them.
In any case, one of the little
facts I picked up along the way was this, and it's important that one think of the fires at the WTC as "room fires" after the planes' impact and fuel's ignition: the peak temperature
at the ceiling in a house fire can reach as high as
1200 degrees centigrade within the first two minutes.
I'll repeat that : the temperature at the ceiling in a house fire-where, presumably, there are only ordinary combustibles-can reach 1200 degrees centigrade within the first two minutes.
That's 2192 degrees fahrenheit.
Even if the ceiling only averaged 900 degrees centigrade-which seems more likely given the flame charactersitics apparent from the video footage- that's 1652 degrees F.
The melting point of structural steel like that used at the WTC? About 1517 degrees fahrenheit-and this temperature needn't have been sustained at all in order to weaken the steel substantially-given the way that the building was constructed, it fell just the way it should under those conditions.
These are
facts, based on
evidence. Other explanations are-to misuse Ockham's Razor as so many others do-largely superfluous. You can say that little grey men from Area 51 set the fires, or that it was a controlled demolition. I'm even familiar-unlike others-of several ways that it could have been done. It's entirely possible to make the buildings shake themselves to bits, and they'd probably have fallen about the same way. In any case,though:
We all saw the planes hit the buildings, and, given the evidence: the buildings, construction,etc.-no further explanation is necessary.
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