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"But the tires are gone (wheels remain), the headlights and taillights are gone, the glass is gone (not broken - gone), bumpers are gone, the fabric of the seats is gone, and even the steering wheel and dashboard is gone where this is visible."
All the plastic and rubber and fabric stuff is gone, which would happen in any sizable automobile fire, what with them being all melt-ey and burst-ey-into-flame-ey like, however, in the last picture, there's some jagged, angular brown stuff sticking out of the edge of the driver's side second window from the parts of the vehicle designed to hold automotive glazing.
Grab the photo, blow it up to 100% and look for yourself.
It's broken glass. No: The glass isn't, "gone."
"It’s clear these cars were not impacted by falling, burning debris."
Pictures 1, 2, and 3 all show cars crushed by falling debris, including other cars.
How is it clear that those cars weren't burning already?
"He even said that there were spots that water had pooled up and was just bubbling like a pot of boiling water with molten metal underneath, like in the Nat/Geo movies of underwater volcanic lava flows.”
What in little pink bunny rabbits?!?!?
Water, when it boils, stays at about 212° F, 100° C, no matter how hot the stuff underneath it is, because the heat of transformation sucks up a
lot of the heat in the state change from liquid to gaseous state. Add lots more heat and all you get is lots more steam; The the water stays at the boiling temperature.
The only way to change that is to put on a lot of pressure, like, say, an
ocean, and a functionally inexhaustible source of heat, like, say, a planet's worth of magma.
Any self-respecting pool of water sitting on top of a pool of molten metal would either:
1) Boil away from the heat, and fairly quickly because of the temperature, or
2) Quench the molten metal.
You can't have
both a pool of water and a pool of molten metal at the same time, Right?
Sheesh.
....
I'm going to a Truther presentation next Monday to hand out copies of the Popular Mechanics answer to the Truthers:
"Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report" (reprinted with permission) in hopes I can save a few rational, thinking human beings.
What was it Jonathan Swift said? "You can't reason someone out of an opinion that he didn't reason himself into in the first place," or something like that.
I'm still going to try.
[ETA] Oh - hey - and - at what temperature does glass melt, so that it can be, "gone?"
2700° to 4200° F (1500° to 2300° C), depending on composition, according to
Wikipedia.
At what temperature does aluminum, the most common material of modern automobiles, melt?
1220.58° F (660.32° C)
same source
At what temperature does steel melt? It's complicated:
(
same source) ...but
less than 1500° C.
Any fire hot enough, from any source, to dispose of glass would also dispose of the aluminum and steel of the cars, right??
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