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In reply to the discussion: For the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT [View all]Warpy
(110,900 posts)9. Yes, the official report identified the vertical column that failed and initiated the collapse
but neglected to mention where, how and why it failed. That's always bothered me, too. Building 7 didn't share the construction of the two big towers and should have remained standing, even with severe damage from falling debris and several large and hot fires burning inside.
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What caused the hight temperatures that caused molten metal for so very long?
wildbilln864
Dec 2015
#64
Think of it like a combination of wood stove, underground oven (like a Lovo)that sort of thing.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2015
#66
NIST claimed that temperatures never reached the levels we are discussing...
Human101948
Dec 2015
#47
AND YET burning office furniture has exceeded the failure point of steel.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2015
#48
I used WTC7/Windsor as an example of what steel can and has done in a fire.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2015
#60
Windsor Tower steel DID NOT collapse into the street like soft taffy
nationalize the fed
Dec 2015
#53
You have no idea how the windsor tower is designed. You're looking at the remaining concrete pillars
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2015
#57
The only part of the prevailing conspiracy theories I've ever thought merited looking into . . .
markpkessinger
Dec 2015
#8
Yes, the official report identified the vertical column that failed and initiated the collapse
Warpy
Dec 2015
#9
Pull the firefighting effort from the building, or pull the building down?
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2015
#45
Maybe the fuel was High-Test (High-test fuel will burn at 2230 degrees) I think or...
BlueJazz
Dec 2015
#5
I never heard that theory about 9/11 and don't understand a word of it, but that video made me
JDPriestly
Dec 2015
#24
Vermiculite from Libby, MT, a superfund site that is killing people to this day.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2015
#63