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How can uncontrolled fires bring down the building if it's "absolutely impossible" to do it with controlled fires?
Nice straw man.
How can uncontrolled fires bring down the building if it's "absolutely impossible" to do it with controlled fires?
How can uncontrolled fires bring down the building if it's "absolutely impossible" to do it with controlled (targetted) fires?
How can uncontrolled fires bring down the building if it's "absolutely impossible" to do it with controlled (targetted) fires?
The ball succumbed to gravity because I let go of it. How does that relate to the collapse of WTC 7?
How does that relate to the collapse of WTC 7? The ball succumbed to gravity because I let go of it.
How can uncontrolled fires bring down the building if it's "absolutely impossible" to do it with controlled (targetted) fires?
You need to look up how they get iron out of iron ore.
smelted iron requires hot-working and can be melted only in specially designed furnaces
Dodge noted.
But as an observation, I don't recall anyone saying anything remotely close to "it's absolutely impossible to [bring down WTC7] with controlled (targetted) fires". I'm not fishing this thread to confirm it either. Show me the post.
And I'll ask again: You obviously don't believe that uncontrolled fire+gravity was the culprit for the collapse of WTC7. What facts and/or evidence lead you to believe otherwise?
Smelting is a human activity. It doesn't just happen by chance like NIST's Probable Collapse Sequence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ferrous_metallurgy
Beginnings
Early iron smelting used charcoal as both the heat source and the reducing agent. By the 18th century, the availability of wood for making charcoal was limiting the expansion of iron production, so that England became increasingly dependent for a considerable part of the iron required by its industry, on Sweden (from the mid 17th century) and then from about 1725 also on Russia.
Actually you didn't read that link you just put up. It says & I quote:
Notice the hilited sections Bard? Charcoal & wood produce fire, you know, FIRE! You're wrong about NIST!
Early iron smelting was done by people using specially designed furnaces. Are you saying that WTC 7 just happened to have all the features of a specially designed iron smelting furnace?
This statement is completely irrelevant considering there was no melted steel in WTC7...
There was no melted steel, fires in the debris pile yes. Thermite, none. No viable means to keep such mixture for thermite intact, no viable means to ignite it, nothing. Thermite demolition is a non-starter since the evidence for it does not exist period.
Then aliens came and abducted the blackboxes??? Didn't Leftysargeant mention that the fires did away with the blackboxes?
What caused the molten blobs underneath the ruble? An underground volcano in downtown Manhattan?
bardamu said:Early iron smelting was done by people using specially designed furnaces. Are you saying that WTC 7 just happened to have all the features of a specially designed iron smelting furnace?
sabretooth47 said:This statement is completely irrelevant considering there was no melted steel in WTC7...
Let us review:
YOU said:
I never said that. Secondly WTC7 fell due to fire damage. What initiated the WTC 1 & 2 collapse? As far as I understand you defend the theory it was due to fire damage. If it wasn't fire damage in a way similar to WTC7 then what was it? Explosives?
You are correct, that is my mistake...Bard actually made the first comment...I shall edit my statement to fix my error. I don't have any trouble admitting that I sometimes screw up.
However, this does not qualify your statement as relevant as bard and I were both referring to WTC7 and that has nothing to do with black boxes.
The relevance is in the fires that lead to the collapse.
Fire (normal fire) induced steel weakening is stated as the cause of the three buildings.
If there was no molten metal in WTC7 then surely according to your theory there should be non in WTC 1 & 2.
Or was there? And if so why?
NIST concluded that the source of the molten material was aluminum alloys from the aircraft, since these are known to melt between 475 degrees Celsius and 640 degrees Celsius (depending on the particular alloy), well below the expected temperatures (about 1,000 degrees Celsius) in the vicinity of the fires...http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
Yes, there was "molten metal". However, just for clarity, "metal" does not always = "steel". That being said, here is what NIST said:
Quote taken from: http://www.debunking911.com/moltensteel.htm