"No.
It is your [Grizzly Bear] attitude to a succinctly stated professional opinion as being effectively meaningless, that I find to be biased, lacking in objectivity, adherence to a preconceived belief, and abject denial.
And as for all that great research of yours that you keep trumpeting, you have not made a single discovery that would suggest that Bart Voorsanger gave his professional opinion offhandedly.
You have no proof that his opinion was cursory. That in itself is clear evidence of your lack of objectivity, bias and denial.
And then you have the gall to raise the issue of close up examination.
A close up examination which you could only do staring at a photo image on your pc.
I reasonably requested that if you wanted to debunk his professional opinion, than all you had to do was find a comparable professional who had also done a close-up examination of that WTC debris specimen.
Voorsanger was clearly in position to do the close-up examination he based his professional opinion on."
"We did!! The three quotes i posted all say compaction. Do you expect them to prove a negative and say "there was no molten steel"? Your argument is ridiculous. There is no mention while the specimen was on site, closely examined and undisturbed that it contained molten steel. if there was they certainly would have made mention of such an extraordinary phenomena. Wouldn't the presence of molten steel be extraordinary? if not and it is expected than its presence is a non issue. They examined it closely, end of story, non negotiable. Your evidence is lacking beyond a single hyperbolic off hand remark."
I have never said there was no compaction.
You never established that any of your observers were talking about the same WTC debris specimen that was examined by Bart Voorsanger.
Secondly, I cannot find your James Glanz and Eric Lipton reference in the book location you specified.
Which leaves you with;
Terry Strobel said:
"My gang cut away a section of a wall. We counted 14 floors compressed into eight feet." –Ironworker Terry Strobel, PBS.org: America Rebuilds"
I can easily counter that with a few ironworker molten steel quotes from WTC Ground Zero.
Getting back to your comments though,
molten steel was apparently only considered extraordinary by those who found it still in a red hot or molten state.
With so much acceptance of melting steel at the time of 9/11, seeing previously molten steel in its re-solidified state was not likely to raise much interest or curiosity.
Obviously architect Bart Voorsanger thought it was of interest (he was collecting special artifacts for the NYC Port Authority), but apparently he had no idea how extraordinary his discovery was.
So either it was extraordinary, or it wasn't, at that time?
Which kind of undermines your belief about re-solidified molten steel that;
"There is no mention while the specimen was on site, closely examined and undisturbed that it contained molten steel. if there was they certainly would have made mention of such an extraordinary phenomena."
It really wasn't until much later, when everyone was denying molten steel that such a discovery took on its special significance.
The NIST showed no interest in the report of still existing molten steel, claiming it never existed. This raises a good question as to why, in their 10,000+ page WTC Twin Towers Report, does the NIST not show some sort of report on this debris specimen?
For the NIST, surely a finding of molten steel should have aroused their interest?
Or was this another report for which the NIST turned a deaf ear?
MM