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In reply to the discussion: For the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)46. Not just investigative efforts, but
future life-safety supporting structural engineering. New fire codes. New disaster allowances in the design.
The new WTC is only rated to withstand that sort of fire we saw on 9/11 for three hours. That's more than a 3x increase in safety margin. But the real golden nugget, is the work that went into preserving access to floors in that kind of disaster, so 3 hours becomes an adequate window to evacuate everyone from the building, and possibly mount additional fire-fighting efforts.
Worst case scenario, next time, more people will live. That's the bottom line.
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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