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[–] DoOver 3 points -1 points 2 points (+2|-3) ago
Are the steel parts you're working on supporting the weight of an entire building while you're working on them?
[–] Scruffy_Nerfherder 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
They don't deform at 1500 f.
They don't.
[–] DoOver ago (edited ago)
Cool, since you do this for work every day, you wouldn't mind recording a video of a large piece of steel heated to at least 1500°f while under a high-stress load of tens of thousands of lbs? It needs to be well over capacity due to the fact that so much structural support was destroyed upon impact, leaving the remaining framework to handle the huge amount of weight. I'd like to see this demonstration. Videos of chicken wire and cinderblocks over a tiny campfire in the backyard isn't doing it for me.
[–] Laserchalk 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
Multiple problems with 3 towers that collapsed that day. WTC 1 and 2 couldn't have been crushed all the way to the bottom floor by the top half under gravity alone. Those buildings can hold multiple times their own weight. So even if those floors could have collapsed, it would be impossible for them to completely crush the entire building. They are also designed to withstand fires and plane crashes to begin with. They planned for that for that exact situation.
WTC 7 wasn't hit by a plane. The official story is that it apparently feel down to office fires. Steel framed high rises are designed to be completely engulfed in flames and not fall. WTC 7 only had fires on a few floors. The official story involves a sequence of extremely unlikely events.The most impossible part is that WTC 7 fell at free fall acceleration. You can only achieve this acceleration when there is no resistance. The only way to make a building fall at free fall acceleration is to break the supporting columns simultaneously.
Dr Hulsey who is a professor of engineering at alaska fairbanks released his report of the collapse of WTC 7 just a few weeks ago. They determined that it is impossible for fires to cause the collapse of WTC 7.