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    Yes, but after WTC 7 went down, all the alarm data was lost.
    No . Thanks again for catching up to the conversation.

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    Wow this is better than Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard!

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    I wonder if the Rush Limbaugh clones in this topic know what caused this explosion.




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    ....gotta give this round to Galileo!

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    After all we know jet fuel can melt steel and stay burning weeks later.......


    Any one who knows basic sciences knows how lame such things are.

    The force by weight and the kinetic energies involve would superheat the interior of the debris. Simple physics. Conservation of mass and energy stuff.

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    When was that picture taken? Since you guys would rather change the subject than deal with the holes in your theories, let's just keep whacking whatever mole you decide to pop up.
    If people were smart enough to look over the NIST summaries and graphics, you would see there were dozens of trusses cut and built into the building at angles. That is simply one of them that fell just right into the debris, or one that was cut when the building was previously modified. That is, if that was part of WTC 7. The beams look too close together to be a photo from that.


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    ....gotta give this round to Galileo!
    I agree. He did an outstanding job of owning himself

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    If people were smart enough to look over the NIST summaries and graphics, you would see there were dozens of trusses cut and built into the building at angles. That is simply one of them that fell just right into the debris, or one that was cut when the building was previously modified. That is, if that was part of WTC 7. The beams look too close together to be a photo from that.

    A truss that is mounted at an acute angle drops perfectly vertical? That also doesn't account for the melting and carbon scoring only right at the location of the cission.

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    I'm glad there are so many gullible dip s in America to make me a wealthy man.


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    The historical landmark St. Nicholas Church was 169 years old when it was destroyed by the collapse of the south tower on 9/11.



    Another theory fails.

    That one was obviously a controlled demolition.


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    Any one who knows basic sciences knows how lame such things are.

    The force by weight and the kinetic energies involve would superheat the interior of the debris. Simple physics. Conservation of mass and energy stuff.
    I know quite a bit of 'basic' science and quite a bit more than just that. When you have a fire that is burning at 550 degrees and the kerosene compounds in there quite easily had the highest burning temperature you need several conditions to increase the temperature.

    In order for the temperature in there to go higher than that you have to take special care that there is no avenue for the majority of the heat to escape. A blast furnace for example has a very large crucible shaped like a weeble with a very small opening at the top.

    Essentially what you had in the WTC was just a big open flame. All that smoke coming out from all those orifices is just heat escaping. That is also only the particles you see and not the radiant heat and hot gas.

    Even that is not enough, you have to continuously have an active air pump into the firing chamber. Convection air flow will not get the temperature that hot. A blast furnace which is optimal in terms of a firing chamber STILL requires the active pumping of air.

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    I'm glad there are so many gullible dip s in America to make me a wealthy man.


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    I do not accept any theory as fact but the only gullibility is blind faith in one or another theory.

    Now is it impossible that the conditions in the towers was such that it could get the temperatures over 2000 degrees for a long enough time to melt the trusses in a fashion uniform enough to cause a completely vertical collapse not once but twice?

    Its not impossible but at the same time I do find it to be the less probable event.

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    I do not accept any theory as fact but the only gullibility is blind faith in one or another theory.

    Now is it impossible that the conditions in the towers was such that it could get the temperatures over 2000 degrees for a long enough time to melt the trusses in a fashion uniform enough to cause a completely vertical collapse not once but twice?

    Its not impossible but at the same time I do find it to be the less probable event.

    Fire can't melt steel! Fire can't melt steel!

    As a mechanical engineer, I can tell you with certainty that steel structures become weakened when they are HEATED.



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    I do not accept any theory as fact but the only gullibility is blind faith in one or another theory.

    Now is it impossible that the conditions in the towers was such that it could get the temperatures over 2000 degrees for a long enough time to melt the trusses in a fashion uniform enough to cause a completely vertical collapse not once but twice?

    Its not impossible but at the same time I do find it to be the less probable event.
    Except that no one is claiming 2000 degrees except the conspiracy nuts who claim that all pools of molten metal are molten steel.

    The NIST based its report on temperatures of a few hundred degrees at which the supporting columns started gaining plasticity.

    Their models showed es of high temperatures as the fire moved around to fresh sources of fuel, as fires are wont to do.

    The parts of the building that were losing their load bearing capacity as the fire progressed were also supporting greater loads due to the impact damage.

    For some reason, common sense thinking about this is impossible for those who want to believe in evil govermment conspiracies.

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    I realize that people love a good conspiracy and looking under corners is good in the long run but assuming something is true becuase it hasn't been disproven yet is stupid.
    The conspiracy theories have been disproven, pretty conclusively. Observed phenomena are ALL adequately explained by collapse theories other than thermite or explosives.

    The theories that the buildings were brought down by explosives/thermite all have observed phenomena that dirctly contradict what one would expect if explosives or thermite were used to bring down the structures.

    This, by anybody's reasonable definition, disproves the explosive/thermite theories about the building collapses.

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    Seven major factors led to the collapse of WTC 1:
    • Structural damage from the aircraft impact;
    • Large amount of jet fuel sprayed into the building interior, that ignited widespread fires over
    several floors;
    • Dislodging of SFRM from structural members due to the aircraft impact, that enabled rapid
    heating of the unprotected structural steel;
    • Open paths for fire spread resulting from the open plan of the impact floors and the breaking
    of par ion walls by the impact debris;
    • Weakened core columns that increased the load on the perimeter walls;
    • Sagging of the south floors, that led to pull-in forces on the perimeter columns; and
    • Bowed south perimeter columns that had a reduced capacity to carry loads.

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    The use of an “average” gas temperature was not a satisfactory means of assessing the thermal
    environment on floors this large and would also have led to large errors in the subsequent thermal and
    structural analyses. The heat transferred to the structural components was largely by means of thermal
    radiation, whose intensity is proportional to the fourth power of the gas temperature. At any given
    location, the duration of temperatures near 1,000 °C was about 15 min to 20 min. The rest of the time, the
    calculated temperatures were near 500 °C or below. To put this in perspective, the radiative intensity onto
    a truss surrounded by smoke-laden gases at 1,000 °C was approximately 7 times the value for gases at
    500 °C
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    the core:


    * Was far from any source of fresh air
    The results of the visual analysis included:
    The locations of the broken windows, providing information on the source of air to feed the
    fires within.

    • Observations of the spread of fires.
    • Do entation of the location of exterior damage from the aircraft impact and subsequent
    structural changes in the buildings.
    • Identification of the presence or absence of significant floor deterioration at the building
    perimeter.
    • Observations of certain actions by building occupants, such as breaking windows.

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    As for the OP:


    [Example video transcript:]

    Government Train Wreck: How government covers up freight train accidents…

    "The noise sounded like two freight trains going over a trestle right over your head; it was an ugly roar. My wife said the noise when the house went was like a giant pencil sharpener working.”

    http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/1953beecher/storiesFJ.php

    [Did a fright train pass over their head? Was there a giant pencil sharpener really over there heads?]

    “While I was in my kitchen I heard this terrible roar coming," she said. "It sounded like a freight train coming right down my road here”

    "It looks like it's been bombed. There's just a lot of destruction, a lot of debris," said Michael Bartz, a state emergency official. "

    http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER...ado/index.html

    [Was it a bomb? Did a real freight train go down her road?]

    "It indeed sounded like a freight train roaring past us, and when it was gone, we came out to find things a mess."

    http://www.offenburger.com/farmarchi...?link=20040906

    It came with "the roar of forty freight trains."

    http://www.tornadochaser.com/UDALL/reports.htm

    “It sounded like a freight train”.

    http://www.disasternews.net/news/new...articleid=2954

    “Before I reached the bottom of the stairs, I heard the sound of a roaring freight train”

    [enter image of NOAA weather map an hour before the tornado touches down.]

    As you can see, there was no tornado on that day, according to NOAA.

    So why is the government covering up train derailments?

    [enter sinister music]

    In 2003 Amtrak was going bankrupt. They couldn't afford to rebuild the homes of Americans after a derailment.

    ETC.. ETC..

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    Since the 9-11 CTers like to copy and paste ad inifinitum, let's see if we can get some good stuff here.

    It might surprise you CTers but there is a whole cottage industry built up around your bull .

    They don't sell T-shirts, mugs, or crappy videos.

    http://www.lolloosechange.co.nr/

    http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...24912447824934

    http://www.911mysteriesguide.com/

    http://www.911myths.com/WTC7_Lies.pdf

    Here is a gem: The 9-11 "truthers" in their own "like, words". Icky.
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...66640147&hl=en

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...w/1227842.html

    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/

    http://wtc.nist.gov/

    http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm

    http://www.911myths.com/

    Best one out of all the lot so far:
    http://www.debunking911.com/

    Mike Walter talking about the plane hitting the pentagon, and how irritated he is with the 9-11 "truth" movement for lying about what he said.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPUDktZpCU

    Link to a TON of debunking links:
    http://www.debunking911.com/links.htm

    Here ARE SOME REALLY PRECIOUS LINKS.

    9-11 "truth" scholars turning on each other. You thought they were unstable and kooky when they talk about the government, wait until they start talking about each other.

    http://www.911myths.com/html/911_infighting_links.html

    Shabby, Self-Serving Internet Reports by Pseudo Journalists and Activists Cause Webb Family Grief - It's Time for Real Journalists and Activists to Shun Demagogues, Hysterics and Profiteers

    by

    Michael C. Ruppert
    A whole page of youtube debunking videos

    A whole page of decent debunking links and one of the best ones so far.

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    By the by, here is how the official report plays out the initial collapse, essentially the same for both buildings based on my reading of the NIST report. Feel free to read the thing and correct this with a better understanding if you so choose.

    Airliner impacts building. Collision injects fire and initial fuel into an office environment filled with other fuel, such as plastic, paper, and furniture, in addition to literally knocking the thin coating of spray on insulation from the structural steel. Simultaineous fires start in multiple floors of the building in wide sections of those floors, in addition to weakening the structure.

    In the damaged sections, you have the remaining load bearing structure taking up the extra load from the portions that were destroyed from the collision.

    Add to this extra load stress per column (both inner and outer), additional lateral (sideways) stresses are placed from expanding trusses exposed to heat. With the additional load, and weakened by fire, the hottest columns start exhibiting "plasticity" and begin to sag, pulling on the connecting floor, and pulling the face of the building inwards at the floor/wall joints.

    Eventually, some part of the buildng gives way, and this instantly places more stress on the remaining structure, itself nearing limits of load/stress capacity. This results in a rather rapid collapse of nearby sections and simple physics do the rest.

    Did the structural steel melt? No. You don't have to even get close to melting point to get loss of strength. Medieval blacksmiths didn't have near the ability to melt iron or steel, but could get it hot enough to work with hammer and anvil into swords, armor, horseshoes, and all manner of things.
    Steel loses about 20% of its load bearing capacity at 300C, and some portions of the fires were hotter than that.

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    A truss that is mounted at an acute angle drops perfectly vertical? That also doesn't account for the melting and carbon scoring only right at the location of the cission.
    I know, but like I said. It could be when they modified the building. It could have been an existing beam cut to make room for an angled truss. I don't have the answers. Only speculation. Speculation is all the conspiracy theroists have too, and nearly all of it is so easily debunked. there will be some examples that are hard to answer, especially with certainty.

    Bottom line, there is not a single item of direct evidence to call for a conspiracy. It is only very weak cir stantial evidence.

    Anyone have any direct evidence?

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    Besides the mountains of physical evidence that disprove these crackpot theories, WTC7 just doesn't make any sense as a target.


    Let me see if I understand the logic...


    Having the north and south towers collapse and the Pentagon struck wasn't enough to justify a war on terror, but WTC7 was somehow the final straw?


    Doesn't add up.

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    I know quite a bit of 'basic' science and quite a bit more than just that. When you have a fire that is burning at 550 degrees and the kerosene compounds in there quite easily had the highest burning temperature you need several conditions to increase the temperature.

    In order for the temperature in there to go higher than that you have to take special care that there is no avenue for the majority of the heat to escape. A blast furnace for example has a very large crucible shaped like a weeble with a very small opening at the top.

    Essentially what you had in the WTC was just a big open flame. All that smoke coming out from all those orifices is just heat escaping. That is also only the particles you see and not the radiant heat and hot gas.

    Even that is not enough, you have to continuously have an active air pump into the firing chamber. Convection air flow will not get the temperature that hot. A blast furnace which is optimal in terms of a firing chamber STILL requires the active pumping of air.
    You are missing what happens to a moving object when it suddenly stops. All that kinetic energy through gravitation acceleration has to go somewhere. What isn't turned into other forms of energy is turned to heat when it comes to rest. This part of physics has nothing whatsoever to do with the fires. It's kinetic rather than chemical energy.

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