Destructobot said:This was the previous stupidest thing I'd seen. Do some research, the beams never melted.upbumpo190 said:You obviously have misunderstood these "conspiracy theories", since everybody knows that the main beams of the towers were melted, from the inside, by bombs.
p1ngpong said:Its not stupid, its physics, nothing apart from high temperature explosives could cause those pools of molten metal!
jabjab said:no idea, im an ignorant brit with a USA flag
i know the media can be pretty biased but the interviews with the public after obama had won were amusing:
random black person1 "YESSSS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT"
random black person2 *tears streaming down face* "YESSSS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT"
and so on.
Not one of them mentioned anything about him as a politician or even as a human being.
Not everyone will be like that ofc, footage would have been selected etc
I am just surprised there were no "YESSS NO RETARDED SARAH PALIN"
Lol. I dont even know what Sstew was replying to, but I am glad to see someone else wondered the same thing that I was wondering for 8 years.Destructobot said:No, we didn't. We said "holy shit, how did that retard manage to steal the election? Only smart people should be able to do that!"Sstew said:Um, Hello we said the same about Bush.
gizmo_gal said:I missed the announcing of the president elect because I fell asleep ad no one woke me up, but I'm gonna watch it on YouTube or something.
positive discrimination is a form of racism also.BlueStar said:jabjab said:no idea, im an ignorant brit with a USA flag
i know the media can be pretty biased but the interviews with the public after obama had won were amusing:
random black person1 "YESSSS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT"
random black person2 *tears streaming down face* "YESSSS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT"
and so on.
Not one of them mentioned anything about him as a politician or even as a human being.
Not everyone will be like that ofc, footage would have been selected etc
I am just surprised there were no "YESSS NO RETARDED SARAH PALIN"
People from all sides of the political spectrum were saying that either a black president or female vice-president would be a momentus step for America - Even George Bush has said that much.
sonic209 said:His speech is on RIGHT NOW!!!
YAY im alive to see a half black president
BlueStar said:p1ngpong said:Its not stupid, its physics, nothing apart from high temperature explosives could cause those pools of molten metal!
That's interesting. How did they manage to get that metal into girder shape in the first place then? By blowing it up with massive bombs before putting it into moulds?
p1ngpong said:As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running.Destructobot said:upbumpo190 said:You obviously have misunderstood these "conspiracy theories", since everybody knows that the main beams of the towers were melted, from the inside, by bombs.
This was the previous stupidest thing I'd seen. Do some research, the beams never melted.
The main support beams were melted and sheared by powerful thermite type explosives. This explains the fact that there were hot spots underground for months after the towers were brought down in a controlled demolition. Basically the clean up teams were finding pools of molten steel six weeks after 9/11, of course everything that burned in the towers could only reach a maximum temperature of half the steels melting point. Its not stupid, its physics, nothing apart from high temperature explosives could cause those pools of molten metal!
A transcription of an audio interview of Ground Zero chaplain Herb Trimpe contains the following passage:
QUOTEWhen I was there, of course, the remnants of the towers were still standing. It looked like an enormous junkyard. A scrap metal yard, very similar to that. Except this was still burning. There was still fire. On the cold days, even in January, there was a noticeable difference between the temperature in the middle of the site than there was when you walked two blocks over on Broadway. You could actually feel the heat.
It took me a long time to realize it and I found myself actually one day wanting to get back. Why? Because I felt more comfortable. I realized it was actually warmer on site. The fires burned, up to 2,000 degrees, underground for quite a while before they actually got down to those areas and they cooled off.
I talked to many contractors and they said they actually saw molten metal trapped, beams had just totally had been melted because of the heat. So this was the kind of heat that was going on when those airplanes hit the upper floors. It was just demolishing heat
An article in The Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah describing a speaking appearance by Leslie Robertson (structural engineer responsible for the design of the World Trade Center) contains this passage:
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Raestloz said:And here's a good fact:
Most steel has other metals added to tune its properties, like strength, corrosion resistance, or ease of fabrication. Steel is just the element iron that has been processed to control the amount of carbon. Iron, out of the ground, melts at around 1510 degrees C (2750°F). Steel often melts at around 1370 degrees C (2500°F).
Considering that the quote above said the fires burned up to 2000 degrees, it must be in °F, even after a few weeks from the actual attack. If after a few weeks it's 2000, a simple logic will say that it's possible the fire's temperature may reach up to 2500. Even if it's not, we don't know whether are they pure steel or not, and thus may have lower melting temperature than 2500, making it even more possible to melt not because some damned thermic bombs, but from extensive burn.
LoL, and what other source of heat other than fire can melt them? Even the sun provides us with heat by burning gases, which conjures firep1ngpong said:You know what also makes me laugh? All the steel was fire proofed with massive ammounts of asbestos too, making it harder to be effected by fire, thats why all the poor rescue workers are dropping dead from lung disease now!
Raestloz said:LoL, and what other source of heat other than fire can melt them? Even the sun provides us with heat by burning gases, which conjures firep1ngpong said:You know what also makes me laugh? All the steel was fire proofed with massive ammounts of asbestos too, making it harder to be effected by fire, thats why all the poor rescue workers are dropping dead from lung disease now!
p1ngpong said:Apart from 9/11 no steel buildings have ever collapsed from fire, on 9/11 three did from small, isolated cool burning fires.
Does thermite not conjure fire?p1ngpong said:Thermite like I said before?
And what im saying is when they built the towers they kind of guessed there might be a fire in them at some point so they over engineered them to withstand that. Apart from 9/11 no steel buildings have ever collapsed from fire, on 9/11 three did from small, isolated cool burning fires.