Contrary to popular beliefs, I was able to determine from reading a question on here that fire is in fact capable of weakening steel to the point where it can cause a collapse, as in the World Trade Center. This caused me to remember an episode of The View in which Rosie O'Donnell stubbornly insisted that there was absolutely no way that the fire alone could have caused the towers to collapse, although Elizabeth Hasselback tried to tell her otherwise. I found a clip of their argument on youtube, and I suddenly realized the sheer ignorance and stupidity of over half the things Rosie was saying. It was like all of a sudden none of the things she was saying made any sense. I suppose I was only listening to her before because I did not know how wrong she was, and because it seems that she has a way of getting anyone to listen to her just by the way she talks. But when you actually know how wrong she is then you realize how stupid she is making herself look by continuing to go on.
2007-09-13 15:32:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
actually, fire can't actuall MELT steel...it can only weaken it
2007-09-13 16:01:44 · update #1
Since when have TV personalities been construction engineers?
2007-09-13 15:37:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rosie O'Donnell is a moron. Steel is forged. Smelted. Meaning that heat has to be used to reduce all ingrediants to liquid form to create the shapes it is created for. Do you think they mine huge steel girders out of the ground? Apparently Rosie does. And no one person said that the steel melted, they said the heat weakened them. Once something that weights as much as a 90 story building does becomes weakened in an area, the entire structure is in jeopardy. How did it get that hot? Jet engine fuel has the ignition point about a hundred times that of gasoline. Meaning, if you spilled jet engine fuel on the ground, you wouldn't want a tap dancer near you. Add that to all the materials in the buildings already there to fuel the fire and the mass area of almost immediate fire and you have conditions that would bend and may even, yes...melt steel.
2007-09-13 22:53:04 · answer #2 · answered by Chazman1347 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Rosie sticks to her opinions a little to tenaciously. And frankly, what caused the buildings to collapse doesn't really matter, should we really be reducing such a tragic event to arguments about fire and steel? We know that a plane crashing into a building will crumble it somehow, whether by fire or by force. The crime and the victims are more important than that.
2007-09-13 22:37:07 · answer #3 · answered by Aloofly Goofy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I make steel, hot steel is weak
,,she is a dumb actor who dosen't know of the real world
2007-09-13 22:40:03 · answer #4 · answered by Arthurlikesbeer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consider the source. nuf said
2007-09-13 23:09:23 · answer #5 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋