Serious question here directed towards 9/11 conspiracy experts about the whole jet fuel/steel beams debacle.
0 2017-09-14 by Keserine
I know a little about metals, heat treating, etc. I've never understood the argument about fire intensity and heat not being capable of toppling the towers. It takes only the heat of a camp fire to make mild steels of a moderate thicknesses glow red and lose structural strength. The available materials/ kindling around an average office seem plenty sufficient to weaken and topple the towers considering the weight of the above floors and amount of oxygen exposed due to nonexistent windows.
Convince me...
29 comments
1 yellowsnow2 2017-09-14
Hot enough to melt/weaken steel yet reality shows a different picture. http://web-images.chacha.com/images/Gallery/7402/15-most-mysterious-things-ever-photographed850386066-nov-22-2014-1-600x500.jpg
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
That picture isn't all that convincing to be honest.
Depending on airflow, location of fuel, etc. that could very well be the coolest spot on the floor!
That is also someone likely out of options and at death's door. Who knows what that makes you capable of withstanding...
1 johnknoefler 2017-09-14
First, the steel was not mild steel. It was high temperature resistant alloy.
Next, structural support beams were coated in fire resistant ablative mineral .
The steel was designed with to be fire resistant to deformation.
Next, all office furniture had to be fire resistant.
Now, explain to me how fire went all the way down the passenger elevators to the main floor. Especially how the fire got past the built in barriers between floors. Also the passenger elevators are not continuous from the crash site to the floor. Your turn.
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
Seriously looking for specifics like this to look at. Thanks I'm not as educated as a lot of you on this specific subject (9/11), but logic and experience with metals are what led me to question the narrative.
1 Throwawayy666drugs 2017-09-14
I can explain it all with this, look up "war by deception" by Ryan Dawson on YouTube! all your questions will be answered there.
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
I'll look into it. Thanks!
1 FunkyFoamyFacko 2017-09-14
There was liquid steel found in the the collapsed structure. What could have possibly happened to cause the steel to melt and stay molten?
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
Some sort of fuel, and a lot of oxygen, typically... Kidding
You mean steel was still molten after the collapse?
1 MilkyWitness 2017-09-14
Yes, there were literally running pools of steel after they collapsed. Under the buildings temperatures were still reading upwards of 1300 degrees F. No simple office fire did that. They also found nano thermite in the rubble rofl.
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
Not to over-use the camp fire analogy, but...
You could wake up the next morning, piss on the embers of last night's fire and it would still be 1300 degrees.
1 MilkyWitness 2017-09-14
They were that high of tempts for WEEKS dude, weeks. Not just the day after.
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
Seriously, thanks.
Going to look at the nano-thermite angle too.
1 gjones33 2017-09-14
Forget for a second trying to use these analogies to describe this situation. Think about facts we know:
1) before 2001, no steel framed building has ever collapsed due to fire. On 9/11 that happened 3 times in one day.
2) jet fuel is kerosene, it simply cannot burn something quickly enough to turn it into molten steel at the rate required to amke buildings collapse like that.
3) go watch any video of the collapse and you'll notice something important. Most of the smoke from the fires they claim did this were dark black. Why? Because oxygen poor environments burn dark black. Oxygen Rich fires the smoke is white (as would be needed for such a fuel to burn hot enough).
If you have experience with metal as you say, you should at least agree that whether or not kerosene can melt steel, the "simple office fires from furniture" which brought building 7 down at free fall speed (later admitted by NIST) could not have possibly brought it down
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
1) I'll take your word on this one for now.
2) Correct, you could burn kerosene all day long on a pile of steel and not turn it to a molten state or even get it to catch fire. However... use that kerosene to ignite a pile of furniture and paper, add good ventilation, and you can make steel glow a dull orange. This renders any previous treatments, shape, or strength void and subject to change.
3) I will pay attention to smoke colors as you suggest, there is some merit to that in general, but some materials also just produce darker, thicker smoke.
I agree I need to read the complete NIST account as a couple of you have suggested.
1 Nogrim6 2017-09-14
2) in this case that actually doesn't work out, you would need bellows like forced airflow to feed enough oxygen to those fires.
that possibility is debunked by the black smoke billowing out of the building, which actually tells you a lot of the fuel was not even burning completely which means it was oxygen starved.
1 Nogrim6 2017-09-14
the problem with that molten metal is how cooling works, sure debris insulated it and kept it hot for a long time after, but it still needed to be hot enough in the first place for the steel to go fully molten (or hotter) jet fuel simply can not explain that at all.
1 throwaway50955932 2017-09-14
Don't forget the fact molten steel was present literally WEEKS after and the remaining debris was still smoking MONTHS after the fact. See : Into December 2011.
1 Nogrim6 2017-09-14
short answer thermite, long answer something that burned a hell of a lot hotter than jetfuel possibly could.
1 DonaldTrumpisRacist 2017-09-14
I have no doubt that high fire could "weaken" the beams. But I would imagine after breaking off it would tilt itself over from the part which was cut from the base. The top portion of the tower met no resistance of 100 floors or so beneath it.
Honestly, we would never build another skyscrapper again if fires alone would make it crush all matter under it into dust.
1 DonaldTrumpisRacist 2017-09-14
I have no doubt that high fire could "weaken" the beams. But I would imagine after breaking off it would tilt itself over from the part which was cut from the base. The top portion of the tower met no resistance of 100 floors or so beneath it.
Honestly, we would never build another skyscrapper again if fires alone would make it crush all matter under it into dust.
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
You don't think humans would do something inherently dangerous over and over?
You need to look at the bigger conspiracy... Humans are greedy, ignorant, and self destructive.
1 DonaldTrumpisRacist 2017-09-14
That's no conspiracy, friend. That's life.
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
Cheers to that
1 Nogrim6 2017-09-14
yeah but if it were the case no insurance company would ever insure one again.
1 5pez__A 2017-09-14
you can even see yourself the explosions cascade down the corner of the tower very clearly on video. have a look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDoGuLpirc
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
What I see is a combination of weight and air pressure the likes of which most people (including many architects and engineers) can't wrap their head around.
Controlled demolitions are always referred to as being an obvious conclusion, because of one characteristic or another.
I'm going to go out on a limb, and guess there aren't too many controlled skyscraper demolitions of this scale to compare to.
Google may make me out to be a dumbass though...
1 5pez__A 2017-09-14
you don't observe that at all. you are making a conclusion based on conjecture. there's no experiment to even compare it to, nobody has ever seen what you are describing.
besides, there's no pile driver. anyone can clearly see it being pulverized in videos.
what you observe is the upper portion being turned to tiny pieces and dust, while explosions literally cascade down the building. it's as plain as day, maybe you should watch it again.
1 gigi_gadget 2017-09-14
Somebody suggested this video and I couldn't stop watching it. It explains in detail. September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor
1 Kasperhashops 2017-09-14
If you want to look into anything in my response, it’s easy to find.
Here’s the issue with the official report;
-there was extensive fireproofing. the amount of force needed to sheer off enough of the fireproofing did not physically exist given the variables at play. It was impossible.
-all of the core columns had to fail simultaneously.
-tremendous fuckery with NISTs model. They didn’t unrealistic, impossible things that they knew weren’t possible to make their model “work”
-seriously, the NIST report is critical
1 Nogrim6 2017-09-14
https://web.utk.edu/~prack/MSE%20300/FeC.pdf
that should help if you want to understand the whole picture and why the whole jet fuel can't melt steel beams thing.
jet fuel is basically kerosene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel#Differences_between_Jet_A_and_Jet_A-1
the big facts here are the open air burn of kerosene in a 100% ideal situation ie 100% effeciency (aka a never going to happen outside of a controlled lab experiment)
steel takes a ton of energy to melt, and is also pretty damn good at shedding that heat by transfering it along the surface (layman: think how fast aluminum foil heats up and cools down)
i mean there are situation where the jet fuel (forgetting the extremely limited amount of fuel on site at the time) such as liquid oxygen, high pressure air flows, hell even explaining the thermite by saying the terrorists got it on to the planes at the airports.
now as for the office refuse, a regular office fire never gets anywhere remotely close to the high temps to melt steel, let alone steel with fire proofing sprayed on to it.
so the physics of this explanation fall apart pretty god damn fast.
your campfire analogy as a ton of problems of scale. first i would love to see anything short of a burning man scale bonfire emit enough heat to melt a steel beam half the size of what is in most structures, localized heat is one thing but remember steel spreads heat very quickly (think the handle of a cast iron pan)
second an open air fire, not fed with bellows is never going to get hot enough to melt regular steel much less, stuff that is covered in fire proof insulation.
IF, and its a big if, any extremely localized spot in the towers was actually able to reach a temperature hot enough to melt the steel we would see partial failures, slumping floors etc in very very localized areas.
the fact that entire floors failed at once, and then in cascade is just absolutely absurd as it means the entirety of each of those floors were uniformly at or near the melting points of structural steel, for them to be uniformly heated that way (ie the core of the building was just as hot as the outside) is completely impossible.
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
I'll look into it. Thanks!
1 Keserine 2017-09-14
Seriously, thanks.
Going to look at the nano-thermite angle too.