You've got to come to terms with the physics dicussed in the OP to accept the fact that I have.Originally posted by: ElFenix
you've yet to prove that doing so is impossible.
Because it is based on long understood and consistently demonstatable laws of physics, as explained in the OP.Originally posted by: Cogman
And how is your argument anything more then a faith based argument?
Again, it does it when it is engineered to, but of course such facts don't stop a falser like yourself from claiming otherwise.Originally posted by: BeauJangles
... thermite doesn't blow up.
This is a good description of you and the rest of your ilk who refuse to address the facts presented in the OP.Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
They believe it so strongly they don't need to listen to contradictory facts or arguments; how could any facts possibly disprove something that they absolutely know is true?
I not only have reason to doubt them, but outright reject their claims, and I presented the reasoning for that in the OP.Originally posted by: LegendKiller
You have no basis to doubt intelligent people with no agenda that were actually there.
Originally posted by: kylebisme
Again, to everyone:
Please look at the facts I presented in the OP. Then ask yourself, without even thinking of 9/11; could fires cause a system of interconnected mass to collapse with an observable period of free fall acceleration? Please don't try to interpret how you believe it once did, don't imagine up theories of how it could, and don't rely on other people to do your thinking for you; but rather seek proof of what can be done in physical reality. Also, please ask your friends to do the same. If you are unwilling to do as much, then please at least respect the fact that you are arguing from a position of faith here, and stop trying to shout me down for doing otherwise.
From now on, I will only respond to posts here which address WTC7's period of free fall acceleration, as that is what this thread is about.
If steel is glowing orange it isn't "molten." Hot steel != molten steel. And last I checked the WTC wasn't a foundry. Pure aluminum doesn't glow orange hot. However, there were all kinds of impurities mixed in with the aluminum which can easily cause it to glow orange.Originally posted by: munky
In the photos over the web, you can clearly see pieces of rubble glowing orange from the heat. Last I checked, molten aluminum, which does melt at much lower temperatures than iron, doesn't glow orange hot. And the photos show solid chunks of metal glowing orange from the heat. Sounds like aluminum to you? Not to me it doesn't.
Then I have to wonder what would cause the rubble to sustain such high temperatures for weeks after the collapse, especially after being dumped with rainwater, and being doused by fire fighters.
And, that still doesn't explain the ridiculous reaction from the director when being questioned about it.
You're new here. Jones's chips have been debunked as invalid "evidence" over and over in P&N. When something is debunked and the troofers continue to trot it out, seemingly obliviously, they deserve to be tagged as morons.Originally posted by: totalnoob
Do you have a proper "debunking" explanation? I think it's pretty clear that the material was NOT simply rust, but a thermitic material. Calling people "troofer morons" for bringing up these questions is not a satisfactory answer.
Originally posted by: totalnoob
Originally posted by: event8horizon
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
http://www.bentham-open.org/pa...02/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM
abstract
"We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic."
to the pseudoskeptics-
this is your mission if you choose to accept it. think about how 15.9mm of a36 steel "corrodes" in just 8 days. that would be wtc 7 steel. i wanna see corrosion rates, how much sulfur content is needed for a eutectic to form at 1100C and all that jazzzzzzzz.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
btw, it's truthers that believe "Active Thermitic Material has been Discovered in the Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe". So who do you think you're fooling with your regurgitated, debunked garbage?
Do you have a proper "debunking" explanation? I think it's pretty clear that the material was NOT simply rust, but a thermitic material. Calling people "troofer morons" for bringing up these questions is not a satisfactory answer.
Originally posted by: nick1985
Anyone else think "truthers" spew this garbage because they have nothing else to do and for some odd reason get some sort of satisfaction from it, even when they know deep down they are full of shit?
Originally posted by: totalnoob
Do you have a proper "debunking" explanation? I think it's pretty clear that the material was NOT simply rust, but a thermitic material. Calling people "troofer morons" for bringing up these questions is not a satisfactory answer.
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: nick1985
Anyone else think "truthers" spew this garbage because they have nothing else to do and for some odd reason get some sort of satisfaction from it, even when they know deep down they are full of shit?
In my humble opinion, people that buy into the truther nonsense do so because it is comforting. Somehow believing that our government did this rather than a bunch of relatively uneducated arabic men helps them sleep better at night and they'll do anything to deny the reality of how vulnerable our country is to attacks from abroad.
Originally posted by: munky
So it doesn't raise your suspicion to see claims such as:
13. Why did the NIST investigation not consider reports of molten steel in the wreckage from the WTC towers?
NIST investigators and experts from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEONY)?who inspected the WTC steel at the WTC site and the salvage yards?found no evidence that would support the melting of steel in a jet-fuel ignited fire in the towers prior to collapse. The condition of the steel in the wreckage of the WTC towers (i.e., whether it was in a molten state or not) was irrelevant to the investigation of the collapse since it does not provide any conclusive information on the condition of the steel when the WTC towers were standing.
Any molten steel in the wreckage was more likely due to the high temperature resulting from long exposure to combustion within the pile than to short exposure to fires or explosions while the buildings were standing.
Originally posted by: kylebisme
You've got to come to terms with the physics dicussed in the OP to accept the fact that I have.Originally posted by: ElFenix
you've yet to prove that doing so is impossible.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
If steel is glowing orange it isn't "molten." Hot steel != molten steel. And last I checked the WTC wasn't a foundry. Pure aluminum doesn't glow orange hot. However, there were all kinds of impurities mixed in with the aluminum which can easily cause it to glow orange.Originally posted by: munky
In the photos over the web, you can clearly see pieces of rubble glowing orange from the heat. Last I checked, molten aluminum, which does melt at much lower temperatures than iron, doesn't glow orange hot. And the photos show solid chunks of metal glowing orange from the heat. Sounds like aluminum to you? Not to me it doesn't.
Then I have to wonder what would cause the rubble to sustain such high temperatures for weeks after the collapse, especially after being dumped with rainwater, and being doused by fire fighters.
And, that still doesn't explain the ridiculous reaction from the director when being questioned about it.
As far as what caused the rubble to sustain such a high temperature you might want to check out the reaction between iron and steam, which just happens to be exothermic and also, incidentally, causes sulfidation as well.
Besides that, truthers imply that thermite fueled these underground fires. However, when the calculations are done the results show that an obscene amount of thermite would have been required to do that.
So where did the energy come from to stoke the underground fires in the first place? It came from the energy released during the collapse of the buildings themselves. The collapses generated a massive amount of heat, plenty of "fuel" (paper, plastics, etc) was buried in the rubble, and the rubble pile acted as an insulator to retain that heat for weeks.
Originally posted by: munky
Then I have to wonder what would cause the rubble to sustain such high temperatures for weeks after the collapse, especially after being dumped with rainwater, and being doused by fire fighters.
Originally posted by: kylebisme
Again, to everyone:
Please look at the facts I presented in the OP. Then ask yourself, without even thinking of 9/11; could fires cause a system of interconnected mass to collapse with an observable period of free fall acceleration? Please don't try to interpret how you believe it once did, don't imagine up theories of how it could, and don't rely on other people to do your thinking for you; but rather seek proof of what can be done in physical reality. Also, please ask your friends to do the same. If you are unwilling to do as much, then please at least respect the fact that you are arguing from a position of faith here, and stop trying to shout me down for doing otherwise.
From now on, I will only respond to posts here which address WTC7's period of free fall acceleration, as that is what this thread is about.
Originally posted by: nick1985
Anyone else think "truthers" spew this garbage because they have nothing else to do and for some odd reason get some sort of satisfaction from it, even when they know deep down they are full of shit?
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: munky
Then I have to wonder what would cause the rubble to sustain such high temperatures for weeks after the collapse, especially after being dumped with rainwater, and being doused by fire fighters.
high temps + water + iron = lots of energy released (fire, basically)
Originally posted by: munky
Steel glows orange at temperatures well above those required to melt aluminum. And if aluminum glows orange, it definitely wouldn't be solid at that point. Not to mention that the amount of aluminum in the rubble was nowhere near the amount of steel. So as convenient as it may sound to pass it off for molten aluminum, it doesn't prove that it was aluminum melting in there.
As for your steam theory - where did the steam come from? You're saying that water poured into the rubble from outside, causing steam, but nothing went out due to insulation? That's one ridiculous claim if I ever heard one.
How much energy went into generating heat? A lot of the energy from the collapse was spent pulverizing the concrete and crushing steel. Only a fraction of it could possibly generate heat. Do you have numbers showing that the amount of energy left over was sufficient to generate all that heat?
If steel is glowing orange it's not "molten."Originally posted by: munky
Steel glows orange at temperatures well above those required to melt aluminum. And if aluminum glows orange, it definitely wouldn't be solid at that point. Not to mention that the amount of aluminum in the rubble was nowhere near the amount of steel. So as convenient as it may sound to pass it off for molten aluminum, it doesn't prove that it was aluminum melting in there.
As for your steam theory - where did the steam come from? You're saying that water poured into the rubble from outside, causing steam, but nothing went out due to insulation? That's one ridiculous claim if I ever heard one.
How much energy went into generating heat? A lot of the energy from the collapse was spent pulverizing the concrete and crushing steel. Only a fraction of it could possibly generate heat. Do you have numbers showing that the amount of energy left over was sufficient to generate all that heat?
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
If you want the numbers I suggest you read the following web page:
http://www.debunking911.com/moltensteel.htm
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
How much energy went into generating heat? A lot of the energy from the collapse was spent pulverizing the concrete and crushing steel. Only a fraction of it could possibly generate heat. Do you have numbers showing that the amount of energy left over was sufficient to generate all that heat?
Originally posted by: LunarRay
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
If you want the numbers I suggest you read the following web page:
http://www.debunking911.com/moltensteel.htm
What I find interesting is that folks on one side of the issue seem to denigrate the links proffered by the other side as being a 'truther' link and that it has no validity. I think I disagree if we are speaking to fact application like applying a known formula to a problem.
To dismiss as 'truther' nonsense the findings of Thermite/Thermate or termites when the constituent bits are present that may have more than one interpretation is NOT a fair reading of the science. That kind of situation should be stated as it actually is: The findings reveal the following [insert what that would be].
Originally posted by: DLeRium
you can't fucking melt steel without a blast furnace or some really hot shit ok? NIST put the jet fuel around 1100-1500F and with office furniture you can push the fires up to 1800F or so. That's not enough to melt steel. Steel doesn't just melt. I remember when the MacArthur maze collapsed because of a gas tanker fire people yelled MOLTEN STEEL because the steel was all twisted.
With these temperatures I listed it's very possible anything molten that was seen COULD HAVE BEEN aluminum. 660C is the MP for Aluminum (1220F I think?). You know another metal that COULD have melted although is less likely given its higher melting point? Copper? Copper pipes? Copper melts around 1000C if I remember correctly, so that's like 1900 F or so. Not entirely out of range of the 1800F for an office furniture fire. More likely than steel which clearly needs at least 1400C for a eutectoid variant...
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
If steel is glowing orange it's not "molten."
Of course there's nothing to prove it was molten aluminum, just as you have no proof it was molten steel. That's the entire point. However, it's far, far more likely to have been molten aluminum since the temps were not hot enough to melt steel in the first place.
As far as the water goes, yes, water seeps through soil and debris very readily. The debris being an insulator doesn't mean that NOTHING went in or out. I have no idea why you're even suggesting such a thing except to create a straw man argument or maybe you don't understand about insulating properties in the first place? Based on your comment above I'd have to say it was the latter.
Then you go on to demonstrate a further lack of physics. Pulverizing concrete and crushing steel doesn't simply cause the energy to dissolve into nothingness. Heat is generated during those process. Considering the large amount of material in the WTC buildings, a lot of heat was generated by those processes.
If you want the numbers I suggest you read the following web page:
http://www.debunking911.com/moltensteel.htm
