That is the kind of hand wave NIST does, like not looking for explosive residues because they don't expect top find any.
Wrong. There was no evidence of explosives, and bomb-sniffing dogs had already been over the scene.
You cannot assume that it had nothing to do with the collapse until the investigation is finished. A real investigation looks at all the evidence and considers al the possibilities. Molten metal weeks after the event is a clear sign of thermite.
So there is no possibility it is not? Funny how all of the possibilities does not include the ones you don't like.
This is really what the iron spheres debate is about. There is no other known explanation for the iron spheres or molten steel/iron in the debris pile. That is why government loyalists vehemently deny all evidence of molten steel/iron.
Except that we're not. We think that the presence of molten steel is unprovable, and thus irrelevant until that changes. What with it being
physically impossible to distinguish molten steel from any other metal or lots of other molten things by eye,
even if one is a trained metallurgist. Doesn't matter if they were there or not.
We also think that the presence of iron microspheres
does not necessarily indicate the presence of thermite. Can you find three posts in this thread that deny the presence of iron micospheres?
You've got nothing but unproven assertions that even your source disagrees with. Even if you disregard the letter, Lee and the Lee group do not think the iron microspheres were evidence of thermite.
It isn't ignoring the "technically" when
the statement Basquearch quoted did not actually have "technically" in it. In fact, your second statement, about the beam "technically" being molten, is only valid
if we accept your earlier statement about the definition of molten as true in the first place.
It is also incorrect, as several posts distinctly quoted the "technically" sentence.
Disprove the first statement, and the second is automatically incorrect. Since your first statement has been proven incorrect--and I'll bet you can't produce a single non-Truther that agrees with your definition of "molten"--whether the second had "technically" or not is irrelevant.
It's also rather hypocritical from someone who keeps ignoring me.