QUOTE(Sunofone @ Mar 27 2006, 02:54 PM) [snapback]1122670[/snapback]
this thread SUCKS!!
You are certainly entitled to your opinion.
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it is nothing more than a propaganda piece where blindfolded skeptics can discuss hypotheticals--you ask me not to de-rail this thread yet when it comes to answering a question on topic you dance around symantics-- find someone who has the background to answer it,or already has since you consider the case closed and exhibit complete confidence in the official investigation--
Enough with the histrionics. If you have questions, great. Ask them and they will be answered, as they have already been. If you want more, ask for more. If you do not understand, ask for clarification. If you do understand, but do not believe, more power to you. I have already made it clear that I consider the official explanation plausible, and I stand ready to explain why I do so. I have already stated my background, and I make it absolutely clear when I am speaking from a factual basis and when I am expressing my opinion.
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exactly what fire were you talking about here?? the madrid fire in the windsor building is an example of an "out of control" fire and the fact that you could even attempt to classify the wtc fire as such speaks volumes concerning the mmotive behind this despotic thread
Motives, schmotives, I am talking about how buildings are designed. High-rises are designed under the assumption that a fire will begin in one area and slowly move towards others. Because of that, they are designed in order to shift load to redundant supports, while the main ones are stressed by the fire. As the fire moves on, and the originally stressed supports return to normal, they once again pick up their load, and a bit extra, to compensate for the supports being stressed in the location that the fire has moved to. That is simply how they are designed.
QUOTE(Sunofone @ Mar 27 2006, 02:59 PM) [snapback]1122677[/snapback]
how can you sit there and rationalize a fifteen minute fire is responsible for comprimising the structural integrity of 47 of the worlds largest steel beams used in construction in the world to the point of instantaneous integrity failure?? do you deny that the columns failed simultaneously?
Not at all. Several of the columns failed the instant a jetliner crashed into them. I'm certain quite a few more were stressed beyon any useful capacity. Was the fifteen minute fire responsible for damaging the integrity of the others? I sincerely doubt it, and I have never claimed that it was. The damage that the fuel fire caused was two-fold: First, it ignited every flammable thing within reach, which continued burning long after the fuel had burned itself out. Second, it spread out over the entire floor in a matter of seconds, which immediately threw out the planned redundancies of a gradually spreading fire. By simultaneously stressing all the remaining columns, there was nowhere for the load to shift to. Still, in an of itself, this is not what caused the columns to fail. What caused the columns to fail was the sudden impact of eight floors collapsing on top of their already weaked structure.
QUOTE(Sunofone @ Mar 27 2006, 03:02 PM) [snapback]1122680[/snapback]
so your theory is that a hydrocarbon fire comprimised the integrity of the steel?? please put it in print if this is what you believe
The official theory, which is the one I agree with because it is consistant with everything that I studied in college years before 911 happened, is that the steel bracework which held up the floors lost the fire-proofing protective coating due to the exploding plane, which exposed the unprotected metal to the heat, which caused it to contort and contract, which pulled it away from the similarly affected brace joings at the wall, which caused the floor to collapse, which caused the weaked support columns left in the core to collapse, which caused the rest of the building to collapse.
QUOTE(dnb420 @ Mar 27 2006, 05:40 PM) [snapback]1122874[/snapback]
Hypocrite?
Am I? Of course, in you mind, I am. But is it because I am refuting your points, or simply because I do not believe as you do? You have come here as an aggressor after I clearly stated that the purpose of this thread is for technical analysis.
Get over yourself. If you can't have a civilized conversation, go to another thread. I will waste no more posts arguing with you about your motives. If you have a question, ask.
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I never said planes caused the collapse of any buildings I said the planes hitting towers 1 & 2 were a distraction.
Yes, I know, and I will grant you that my response did sound like that is what you claimed. The point of the entire response was, however, that I was trying to get clarification that you were talking about WTC7 after talking about jet fuel and airplanes, and you responded with a yes. In short, I had no other option but to believe you were mistaking one building for another.
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This thread is quite amusing with aquatus1 over here thinking he is an engineering expert and can tell us everything about the fires and collapses. I give him an A for effort though, nothing like a good 'ol college try.
That's very nice of you and not belittling at all, however I have already stated what my background was, at no time making any sort of claim to expertise. As is very clear in my introduction, I studied architecture, material science, and engineering in college, and nothing that I studied conflicted with this. If you wish to regard me as an expert, well, I would caution against that.
What I am not, however, is an idiot. I may not believe what you do, nor agree with your conclusions, but you are a child if you believe that coming into a thread designed for technical explanation, claiming the author considers himself an expert, and then mocking him for that, is not a transparent little plot.
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Also, the video I posted isn't a conspiracy theory, all it is is a home video high-lighting the 9/11 events unfolded in NYC. Their opinions hold more credibility than yours.
You can call crap a rose and it still won't change the smell. A conspiracy video is a conspiracy video. Technical videos don't start with little girls innocently reading antagonistic questions while a patriotic song underscores a national disaster.
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And to think the towers collapsed by the internal structure being weakened from the fire and the weight of the floors above causing the building to collapse is non-sense. The entire building fell at almost the same time. Since you are the engineering expert aquatus1, why don't you tell us how that happened? (I'm talking about WTC1 & 2 now)
Well, I just did above to Sunofone. If you would like me to expand on any of it, I would be happy to.