leftysergeant
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Going through some of SlimeBuster's vids on YouTube, I noticed something which may address the question of the use of explosives, at least on the perimeter columns, of the towers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJd7Smu0k7M
At about 6:00 to 6:45, he shows several perimeter columns from the ends where they were bolted together.
The bolts are bent and broken off at the threads. It would appear to me that these columns were bent outward, relatively gently, until the bolts snapped at their weakest point, which would be the threaed ends. I would be at a loss to explain how that could possibly be done with the use of explosives. Explosives, from what I have observed, would have more likely just sheared the bolts more or less cleanly along the plane of the joints. If this is typical of the damage observed in the rubble, it does argue very much for progressive collapse. The weight of falling rubble piling up inside the walls, trying to move downward under gravity, but delayed somewhat by the minimal resistance of the floor slabs, would be the exact mechanism to so shove the panels of columns outward. Does anyone see this differently?
On this same video, at about 6;48, there is a brief view of some of the steel showing eutectic melting. Perhaps it is just something about the different resolution as compared to other pictures I have seen, but this looks an awful lot like the acid etching I did in high school to show the crystaline nature of case-hardened steel. This supports my pet theory that this melting was the result of sulphuric acid formation from steam and burning rubber and storage batteries in WTC 7. Agree or disagree with this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJd7Smu0k7M
At about 6:00 to 6:45, he shows several perimeter columns from the ends where they were bolted together.
The bolts are bent and broken off at the threads. It would appear to me that these columns were bent outward, relatively gently, until the bolts snapped at their weakest point, which would be the threaed ends. I would be at a loss to explain how that could possibly be done with the use of explosives. Explosives, from what I have observed, would have more likely just sheared the bolts more or less cleanly along the plane of the joints. If this is typical of the damage observed in the rubble, it does argue very much for progressive collapse. The weight of falling rubble piling up inside the walls, trying to move downward under gravity, but delayed somewhat by the minimal resistance of the floor slabs, would be the exact mechanism to so shove the panels of columns outward. Does anyone see this differently?
On this same video, at about 6;48, there is a brief view of some of the steel showing eutectic melting. Perhaps it is just something about the different resolution as compared to other pictures I have seen, but this looks an awful lot like the acid etching I did in high school to show the crystaline nature of case-hardened steel. This supports my pet theory that this melting was the result of sulphuric acid formation from steam and burning rubber and storage batteries in WTC 7. Agree or disagree with this?
