A flammable hydrocarbon such as jet-A burns under optimal conditions (with air forced into the combustion chamber) at 1,800F. In an open air fire it will burn at about 1,200F. Structural steel doesn't melt until 3,332F. Video footage shows molten steel pouring out of the gaping wound in one of the towers. Statements, recorded on video by the Naudet brothers' documentary, of firefighters on the scene that day talked about "molten steel running down the channel rails" and how it was "like being in a foundry". Sturctural steel CAN NOT be melted by a hydrocarbon. Period. How did jet-A melt sturctural steel? If a building suffers a pancake collapse, the fastest rate of destruction possible is 6 floors per second. That would mean that the 110 story buildings should have taken at least 18.3 seconds. Newton's 2nd Law applied to an object dropped from a 110 story building would take 9.4 seconds to hit the pavement. WTC 1 fell in 8.6 seconds. WTC 2 fell in 10.4 seconds. How?
2007-02-23
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