nlinecomputers
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Ok, I dont want to get into this deeply but I will go this far.
Its not "kerosene", you shouldnt play down the intensity of burning modern jet fuel.
It's not 10% damage causing 100% failure, its critical to understand the design of the building.
It was not a STEEL FRAME BUILDING, not a frame everyone is used to.
The towers were designed with a new exoskeleton support system, not a standard box type.
The towers were designed to survive an impact from a 707 (conspiracy theory people say 747, that is wrong, the 747 didnt exist when the towers were designed.).
The heat from the fire did NOT melt the steel, it softened the support braces. The softening caused the metal to warp and the critical support areas collapsed on one floor causing the weight of that floor to be placed onto the next floor below it. It was not a gentle placement of the weight either, it was a drop of the floor onto the next. The lower floor is not designed to take not only twice the weight of the above floor but ALL the floors above it as the upper floors now collapsed inward due to the exoskeleton design.
Once the first collapse occured the building could not possibly survive, all the floors above began to collapse onto the next floor and the weight plus impact of the collapse caused each floor to collapse. The collapse was near vertical due to the design of the building and how previous floors were collapsing causing the exoskeletion to flop inwards from the top down.
I worked in WTC1 for a few years. You could not put bombs or thermite or anything in the walls, the walls were so thin and there was so little in between the windows. Nobody could have designed something in 1966 to be set off in 2001 without hundreds if not thousands of people knowing. To this day only a handful of nut jobs claim to "know something" about bombs.
That's all I am going to say, I know that there are all kinds of weird theories and each has been proven to be wrong but people don't want to let it go.
I guess people need to find something to do with their free time and I guess this is one of those things.
Ok I am going to get real rude here but only to make a point. You just made some assumptions and put words into my mouth and I don't appreciate that tactic at all. I never said ANYTHING about 747s nor about melting steel or softening steel so DO NOT PUT WORDS in my mouth. GOT IT?
I don't even understand your 1966 statement. Are you saying the building was BUILT with bombs? That is a ridiculous statement.
Yes I know it is jetfuel. Jetfuel is NOT that different then basic kerosene. It burns somewhat cleaner but not much hotter burning. But your point is valid I will use the better term. My Bad.
The tube design of the building is not structurally weaker then the traditional frame design. The opposite in fact as such structures have to support wider open spaces. Even so the core of a tube building is much stronger then the typical frame design. So it should have survived better then the rest of the building. Yet the cores were completely destroyed. And there were fires in 10 or so floors in upper weaker parts of the building. The lower parts did not have fire, are of stronger designs and yet failed just as fully as the lower parts. And why didn't the building topple? Every joint in the building failed exactly the same way? Even though fire was only concentrated in one corner of the south tower? And none of this explains the pulverized concrete. Every 1 acre 4 inch floor slab in each building was crushed to micron sized dust. Dust that appeared at onset when only one or two floors have fallen and only have moved 10ft. Shouldn't some of the floor slabs remained intact? Especially the upper floors? Then there is the heat from the pile. This was a hydrocarbon fire. Yet weeks after the attack the clean up team is finding red hot glowing steal beams. The FEMA report. The first report done on the attack mentions that some of the steel found and examined by them had been subjected to a sulfur corrosion. They offered no explanation to the source of the sulfur. http://www.wpi.edu/News/Transformations/2002Spring/steel.html
I can go on and on. I will say that there are lots of civil engineers, architects, and even physicists who question this and have put quite a bit of genuine scientific methodology in examining this.