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wildbilln864

(13,382 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 12:59 AM Oct 2014

9/11 Molten Metal at World Trade Center.11th September 2001.

" roaring inside! Just a bright bright redish orange color."
"...at one point I think they were at 2800 degrees! "



maximum temperature for hydrocarbon fires? maybe 1800 degrees!
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9/11 Molten Metal at World Trade Center.11th September 2001. (Original Post) wildbilln864 Oct 2014 OP
Since Aluminum melts at 1200 degrees, what's the issue here? hack89 Oct 2014 #1
Al melts but doesn't glow bright orange when heated less than 1800 degrees F! wildbilln864 Oct 2014 #2
So molten steel is common at fires? hack89 Oct 2014 #3
" So molten steel is common at fires?" wildbilln864 Oct 2014 #4
So they slathered entire columns with thermite to melt them hack89 Oct 2014 #5
for your education: wildbilln864 Oct 2014 #6
You prove my point hack89 Oct 2014 #7
nonsense! wildbilln864 Oct 2014 #8
So what was heating the steel so long after the collapse? hack89 Oct 2014 #9
Thermite can burn for months gyroscope Nov 2014 #14
Steel beams will not act like fuel for thermate hack89 Nov 2014 #15
Huh? gyroscope Nov 2014 #16
What about super duper Theramateite??? zappaman Nov 2014 #17
Why would there be unburnt thermite in the rubble pile? hack89 Nov 2014 #18
Thermate is a hypothetical substance? gyroscope Nov 2014 #19
Your links undercut your argument of large amounts of unburnt thermate in the rubble pile hack89 Nov 2014 #20
"Unburned thermate" gyroscope Nov 2014 #21
You said there was unburnt thermite in the rubble pile, not Jones hack89 Nov 2014 #22
Nonsense gyroscope Nov 2014 #23
But the thermite would not have melted the steel beams hack89 Nov 2014 #24
Thermite cuts by melting gyroscope Nov 2014 #26
But it only melts a very small portion of the steel hack89 Nov 2014 #27
Doesn't matter if the thermate was expended gyroscope Nov 2014 #28
There was not enough molten steel to form pools hack89 Nov 2014 #29
Wrong again gyroscope Nov 2014 #32
They covered the vertical columns with tons of thermate and miles of det cord completely undetected? hack89 Nov 2014 #33
Det cord? lol gyroscope Nov 2014 #35
So you of course can show where large building demolitions are routinely done with wireless? hack89 Nov 2014 #37
Not going to address the tons of thermate? Don't blame you. hack89 Nov 2014 #38
Citibank Tower NYC - 1978 nationalize the fed Nov 2014 #41
"WELDERS started work almost immediately, their torches a dazzlement in the night sky." hack89 Nov 2014 #44
Well isn't this interesting nationalize the fed Nov 2014 #52
Except Stratsec was excused from the project in 1998 for non-performance hack89 Nov 2014 #55
Not according to CEO Barry McDaniel nationalize the fed Nov 2014 #57
Their financial report to the SEC says the project ended in 1998 hack89 Nov 2014 #58
Dozens of contracted maintenance crews gyroscope Nov 2014 #42
So how long did it take to smuggle in and install tons of thermate and wire it up? hack89 Nov 2014 #45
As long it takes gyroscope Nov 2014 #47
5 years in complete secrecy hack89 Nov 2014 #49
Bush took office January 2001 gyroscope Nov 2014 #50
Statsec was removed from the WTC project in 1998 for non-performance. Nt hack89 Nov 2014 #56
No link? gyroscope Nov 2014 #64
Their financial report to the SEC says the project ended in 1998 hack89 Nov 2014 #66
Do you agree the fires were hot enough to melt aluminum? nt hack89 Nov 2014 #25
But molten aluminum gyroscope Nov 2014 #30
How did it keep separate from all that molten steel? Wouldn't it mix? hack89 Nov 2014 #31
Gibberish gyroscope Nov 2014 #34
Lets start with "2,000 degrees that raged for a hundred days" hack89 Nov 2014 #36
Jesus Christ gyroscope Nov 2014 #40
So now the aluminum didn't cool it evaporated? hack89 Nov 2014 #43
Congrats, you live up to your name gyroscope Nov 2014 #46
So how do you distinguish the two hack89 Nov 2014 #48
Lord have mercy gyroscope Nov 2014 #51
You are the one that believes that steel beams burn like logs hack89 Nov 2014 #53
That's not what I said gyroscope Nov 2014 #62
But a very poor analogy hack89 Nov 2014 #65
Absurd gyroscope Nov 2014 #68
There was no molten pool to fall into hack89 Nov 2014 #69
What do you think happened to all the thermate after the collapse? gyroscope Nov 2014 #70
The thermate was gone in seconds hack89 Nov 2014 #73
Regardless gyroscope Nov 2014 #75
There was not enough molten steel to produce pools hack89 Nov 2014 #77
Wrong on all counts. nt gyroscope Nov 2014 #80
So cutting the columns would not collapse the building? hack89 Nov 2014 #81
That's not what I said gyroscope Nov 2014 #82
There were only forty or so core columns hack89 Nov 2014 #83
It's been explained several times gyroscope Nov 2014 #85
ok zappaman Nov 2014 #86
So if all the core columns are cut the WTC would not collapse? hack89 Nov 2014 #87
Do you agree that the WTC collapse obviously looked like CD? nt hack89 Nov 2014 #84
No doubt about that! gyroscope Nov 2014 #89
Which means the columns did not have to be melted, just cut. hack89 Nov 2014 #91
So why didn't they use high explosives? hack89 Nov 2014 #92
"emersed"? zappaman Nov 2014 #54
The spelling Nazi strikes again gyroscope Nov 2014 #63
says the guy who said zappaman Nov 2014 #67
The thread is mainly about the science of 9/11 gyroscope Nov 2014 #71
So why haven't you presented any science? zappaman Nov 2014 #72
Why haven't you? gyroscope Nov 2014 #74
Cuz I like to sit back and watch you get your ass handed to you. zappaman Nov 2014 #76
So the spelling Nazi gyroscope Nov 2014 #78
Uh huh zappaman Nov 2014 #79
Where'd you go to school? The Ebonics Academy? gyroscope Nov 2014 #88
Lol. zappaman Nov 2014 #90
"...at one point I think they were at 2800 degrees! " William Seger Oct 2014 #10
your link cites the temps five days later.... wildbilln864 Nov 2014 #11
That's the only series of aerial "hotspot" readings that were taken William Seger Nov 2014 #13
No melted steel on 911, 911 truth fails, and falls short of Creative Speculation standards superbeachnut Nov 2014 #12
FEMA: Limited Metallurgical Examination nationalize the fed Nov 2014 #39
Having posted a mechanism to melt steel after the collapse without thermite hack89 Nov 2014 #59
1000 C means no melted steel. You proved no melted steel on 911 - you are a debunker superbeachnut Nov 2014 #60
No melted steel found. superbeachnut Nov 2014 #61

hack89

(39,171 posts)
1. Since Aluminum melts at 1200 degrees, what's the issue here?
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 11:59 AM
Oct 2014

considering the WTC towers were clad with aluminum, you would expect plenty of molten metal in the WTC rubble pile.

 

wildbilln864

(13,382 posts)
2. Al melts but doesn't glow bright orange when heated less than 1800 degrees F!
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 08:52 PM
Oct 2014

If you have credible evidence that it does please post a link to it! Um, sorry but JREF crackpots not accepted.
And there are no eyewitness accounts of molten Al. But there are for molten steel. Also if it were Al, which it was not, what kept it heated enough to glow bright orange for two months after the collapses? Answer: thermate!

"The fundamental flaw of the aluminum hypothesis, though, is that the implied temperature of the white glow remains above 1200°C/2200°F, regardless of the metal involved. "

hack89

(39,171 posts)
3. So molten steel is common at fires?
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 09:59 PM
Oct 2014

Because how else would firefighters gain the experience to distinguish molten steel from aluminum? Especially when it is mixed with dust, concrete and all that other crap in the pile.

So what melted the steel?

hack89

(39,171 posts)
5. So they slathered entire columns with thermite to melt them
Thu Oct 23, 2014, 10:08 PM
Oct 2014

Last edited Fri Oct 24, 2014, 06:35 AM - Edit history (1)

Instead of using just a little to cut them?

So how would the firefighters be able to recognize molten steel if this is the first time it has ever happened?

hack89

(39,171 posts)
7. You prove my point
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 06:41 AM
Oct 2014

We know thermite can cut steel. But it didn't melt the entire piece of steel. How much molten steel would you produce to burn narrow cuts into some core columns. And how would all that molten steel magically collect to form pools? And how would it not mix with all the molten aluminum?

Why don't you tell me haw many columns were cut to start with?

 

wildbilln864

(13,382 posts)
8. nonsense!
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 12:12 AM
Oct 2014

and you ignore this point:
"The fundamental flaw of the aluminum hypothesis, though, is that the implied temperature of the white glow remains above 1200°C/2200°F, regardless of the metal involved. "

hack89

(39,171 posts)
9. So what was heating the steel so long after the collapse?
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 09:44 AM
Oct 2014

The thermite was all gone before the towers finished collapsing so what heated the steel in the rubble pile?

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
14. Thermite can burn for months
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 12:27 AM
Nov 2014

as long as it has enough fuel to feed it.
in the case of the twin towers, the fuel was hundreds of thousands of tons of steel beams.

sort of like a forest fire, that can burn for weeks and months as long as there are trees. except with thermite, water cannot easily put it out which is why thermite is commonly used for underwater welding. a better comparison would be molten lava from a volcano, which we know can burn for months if not years.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
15. Steel beams will not act like fuel for thermate
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 07:30 AM
Nov 2014

Thermate is fast reacting.

I think you need to provide some links.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
16. Huh?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 11:15 AM
Nov 2014

The reaction time has nothing to do with it.

And we're talking about thermite, not thermate.

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
17. What about super duper Theramateite???
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 11:42 AM
Nov 2014

Just because we haven't heard of it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

hack89

(39,171 posts)
18. Why would there be unburnt thermite in the rubble pile?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 11:43 AM
Nov 2014

especially in large amounts? I thought it was used to cut narrow gaps in the steel columns so that they would collapse. If it cut the columns then there would be none left. If there was a lot of thermite left over then the columns were not cut. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

Professor Steven Jones of BYU says he found traces of thermate at the WTC, not thermite. Thermate is a super-duper, somewhat hypothetical version of thermite that Truthers came up with when it was clear that the actual evidence would not support thermite. Are you saying Professor Jones is lying?

In case you haven't figured it out by now, we have been talking about it here for 10 years - you have not said anything that hasn't been discussed over and over again. Which is par for the course for 911 Truth - nothing new in a very long time. Your "steel columns as fuel" argument has even been seen here before.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
19. Thermate is a hypothetical substance?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 12:10 PM
Nov 2014

LOL. Unlike the unproven and rather laughable hypothesis that random office fires can cause the total collapse of modern steel skyscrapers, thermate is a very real thing. But thanks for the laugh!


Thermate composition is a thermite one enriched with a salt-based oxidizer (usually nitrates, e.g. barium nitrate, or peroxides). In contrast with thermites, thermates burn with evolution of flame and gases. The presence of the oxidizer makes the mixture easier to ignite and improves penetration of target by the burning composition, as the evolved gas is projecting the molten slag and providing mechanical agitation.[18] This mechanism makes thermate more suitable than thermite for incendiary purposes and for emergency destruction of sensitive equipment (e.g. cryptographic devices), as thermite's effect is more localized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite#Thermates



Thermate has military applications and is capable of cutting through tank armor.

Because thermate burns at higher temperatures than ordinary thermite,[1] it has useful military applications in cutting through tank armor or other hardened military vehicles or bunkers. As with thermite, thermate's ability to burn without an external supply of oxygen renders it useful for underwater incendiary devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermate



Thermate, thermite whatever you want to call it is much more plausible way to take down modern steel high-rise than office fires.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
20. Your links undercut your argument of large amounts of unburnt thermate in the rubble pile
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 12:28 PM
Nov 2014

"short burst" "small area" "short period of time"

You haven't really thought this out very well, have you?

Can you tell me exactly how the thermite/thermate was used? What is your theory?

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
21. "Unburned thermate"
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 12:33 PM
Nov 2014

I don't know where you get that idea, but it is incorrect.

What Jones said he found was thermate residue, not unburned thermate. Big difference.
Thermate residue is what you would expect to find after burning thermate.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
22. You said there was unburnt thermite in the rubble pile, not Jones
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 12:35 PM
Nov 2014
Thermite can burn for months


It can't burn for months unless there was a shit ton of it left over from the initial demolition and collapse.
 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
23. Nonsense
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 01:01 PM
Nov 2014

I don't think you understand the difference between steel and wood.

Steel isn't the same as wood. A burning wood log will burn itself out within a matter of hours, for example,
but a steel beam that is melted down can remain in a molten state almost indefinitely.
With thermate or thermite being the catalyst turning cold steel into molten steel.
Fire is the catalyst that turns wood into a pile of ashes, but an office fire is not sufficient
to turn a steel beam into a molten state.

Unlike burning wood, molten steel doesn't just turn into a pile of ashes.
In an enclosed space it can remain molten almost indefinitely.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
24. But the thermite would not have melted the steel beams
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 01:04 PM
Nov 2014

it was used to cut the beams, not melt them. Your own link says that thermate concentrates intense heat in a small area for a short time. That is how it burns a small hole into steel. It does not melt the entire piece of steel.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
26. Thermite cuts by melting
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 01:29 PM
Nov 2014

Last edited Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:30 PM - Edit history (1)

similar to how welders commonly use thermite to manually cut steel beams in half.
the beam is literally melted in half.


Thermite can be used for quickly cutting or welding steel such as rail tracks,
without requiring complex or heavy equipment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite#Civilian_uses



after the building collapses, all that thermate and steel then collects at the sub-basement area of the towers, and you have a very large molten pool of melted steel and burning thermate all collapsed together into a confined area at the base of the towers.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
27. But it only melts a very small portion of the steel
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 01:46 PM
Nov 2014

if it melted a large area, it would be useless for welding. Come, apply some thought here.

How can there be any thermate to collect since it was all expended cutting the steel columns? Thermate burns almost instantaneously - there would be no unburned thermate to collect in the basement. And you would not have a large amount of molten steel - how much molten steel would be generated my cutting very narrow strips out of steel columns? What molten steel there was would be mixed in with all that collapsing debris - it would cool very quickly. And there certainly would not be enough to flow and collect into large pools.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
28. Doesn't matter if the thermate was expended
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:13 PM
Nov 2014

like I said the molten steel it produces can remain in a molten state almost indefinitely.

and that molten steel in turn will continue to melt the remaining steel long after the towers have collapsed.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
29. There was not enough molten steel to form pools
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:50 PM
Nov 2014

think. You melt very narrow strips out of steel columns - fractions of inches is all you need. And what molten steel that is produced is scattered over a large enough area that it can't pool. And then it is mixed with tons of concrete dust and debris - you don't have a clue what you are talking about.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
32. Wrong again
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:21 PM
Nov 2014

demolishing a skyscraper isn't like cutting down a tree where you simply make one cut at the base of the tree and the tree comes down.

you are making multiple cuts all along the vertical length of the building, as evidenced by the top down symmetrical destruction witnessed in the twin tower collapse videos. indicating that timed charges were placed all along the vertical lengths the buildings. each one of the 47 columns having charges placed all along its vertical 1,300 foot length. as well as each perimeter column. charges that are totaling in the hundreds, which is a helluva a lot of thermite or thermate.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
33. They covered the vertical columns with tons of thermate and miles of det cord completely undetected?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:33 PM
Nov 2014

Please, tell me more.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
35. Det cord? lol
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:48 PM
Nov 2014

there's this modern invention called wireless technology that lets people to do such things as make phone calls from a cordless phone or a cell phone. you may have heard of it? such technology has been around for decades and even allows for explosive and/or incendiary devices to be remotely detonated without wires! amazing isn't it? gee what will they think of next?



hack89

(39,171 posts)
37. So you of course can show where large building demolitions are routinely done with wireless?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:51 PM
Nov 2014

of course you can.

RF interference - I suggest you research it.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
38. Not going to address the tons of thermate? Don't blame you.
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:52 PM
Nov 2014

the logistics of actually prepping the WTC for CD is an issue Truthers have been ignoring now for a decade - the math never adds up.

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
41. Citibank Tower NYC - 1978
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 04:28 PM
Nov 2014

The Secret Retrofit



Uploaded on Jan 17, 2008

A useful counterpoint to the 9/11 Truth denier's oft-repeated claim that the World Trade Center's owners could not have installed explosives without being detected.

The video from Discovery's "Science Channel" summarizes the story of the Citicorp Center, which underwent major structural retrofits barely a year after its completion, when the architect, William LeMessurier, realized that a design flaw could lead to the building's collapse in a strong wind.

The truth only became known to the public nearly twenty years later, in a 1995 article that appeared in New Yorker magazine entitled "The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis"...

"The weakest joint, he discovered, was at the building's thirtieth floor; if that one gave way, catastrophic failure of the whole structure would follow. Next, he took New York City weather records provided by Alan Davenport and calculated the probability of a storm severe enough to tear that joint apart. His figures told him that such an event had a statistical probability of occurring as often as once every sixteen years--what meteorologists call a sixteen-year storm.

"That was very low, awesomely low," LeMessurier said, his voice hushed as if the horror of discovery were still fresh.

On Tuesday morning, August 8th, the public-affairs department of Citibank, Citicorp's chief subsidiary, put out the long delayed press release. In language as bland as a loan officer's wardrobe, the three-paragraph document said unnamed "engineers who designed the building" had recommended that "certain of the connections in Citicorp Center's wind bracing system be strengthened through additional welding.'' The engineers, the press release added, "have assured us that there is no danger."

WELDERS started work almost immediately, their torches a dazzlement in the night sky."

Ask yourself, how many people know this story - even today - ten years after a magazine article was published about it?

It is obvious that the installation of cutter charges in the WTC Towers could easily have been accomplished with no public awareness of what was being planned - especially in view of eyewitness accounts of mysterious power outages and construction noise in the towers in the days and weeks before 9/11.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center#Engineering_crisis_of_1978

Because nothing happened as a result of the engineering gaffe, the danger was kept hidden from the public for almost 20 years. It was publicized in a lengthy article in The New Yorker in 1995

hack89

(39,171 posts)
44. "WELDERS started work almost immediately, their torches a dazzlement in the night sky."
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 05:16 PM
Nov 2014

so you have reports of major and public work on the WTC columns? Work that was visible to all? Lets see it.

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
52. Well isn't this interesting
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 07:39 PM
Nov 2014

It's like peeling an onion. A rotten onion.



A Director in the company that provided electronic security for the WTC (and Dulles Airport) was Marvin P. Bush, Dubya's brother.

Marvin P. Bush, Principal, Securacom/Stratesec

Securacom/Stratesec installed a new WTC "Security System". Isn't that interesting.
There was a complete "power down"- the weekend before 911. That would mean no security cameras, wouldn't it?

A security company called Stratesec acquires an $8.3 million contract to help provide security at the World Trade Center. It is one of numerous contractors hired in the upgrade of security at the WTC following the 1993 bombing. Stratesec, which was formerly called Securacom, is responsible for installing the “security-description plan”—the layout of the electronic security system—at the World Trade Center. It has a “completion contract” to provide some of the center’s security “up to the day the buildings fell down,” according to Barry McDaniel, its CEO.
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=wirt_d__walker_iii_1


then there's Wirt D Walker

Wirt D. Walker III, a distant relative of George W. Bush, is chairman of the board at Stratesec from 1992, and its CEO from 1999 until January 2002. Another of Stratesec’s directors, from 1991 to 2001, is Mishal Yousef Saud Al Sabah, who is a member of the Kuwaiti royal family. Al Sabah is also chairman of an investment company called the Kuwait-American Corporation (KuwAm), which, between 1993 and 1999, holds a large, often controlling share of Stratesec. In 1996, it owns 90 percent of the company; by 1999 it owns 47 percent
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=wirt_d__walker_iii_1


Coincidence theory?

hack89

(39,171 posts)
55. Except Stratsec was excused from the project in 1998 for non-performance
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 09:10 PM
Nov 2014

Minor detail Truthers always ignore.

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
57. Not according to CEO Barry McDaniel
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 10:41 AM
Nov 2014
Stratesec, which was formerly called Securacom, is responsible for installing the “security-description plan”—the layout of the electronic security system—at the World Trade Center. It has a “completion contract” to provide some of the center’s security “up to the day the buildings fell down,” according to Barry McDaniel, its CEO.
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=stratesec


You're talking about "equipment" not a "security description plan"

"Ultimately though, we know that Stratesec was a security contractor for several of the facilities that were compromised on 9/11, including the WTC buildings, Dulles airport where Flight 77 took off, and also United Airlines which owned two of the ill-fated planes. We also know that the CEO of Stratesec came from a background of deep-state connected, opium-funded wealth, and that the many Wirt Dexter Walkers were thereafter steeped in a culture of power and secrecy that has ruled the United States for many years-"
Kevin Ryan, author of Another 19

http://www.amazon.com/Another-Nineteen-Investigating-Legitimate-Suspects/dp/1489507833/

hack89

(39,171 posts)
58. Their financial report to the SEC says the project ended in 1998
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 10:50 AM
Nov 2014
Revenues decreased by 45% from $12.1 million in 1997 to $6.6 million in 1998. The decrease was due to the closeout of the World Trade Center Project.


http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037453/0000925328-99-000032.txt

And they didn't run the system after it was designed:

Stratesec installed the initial security-description plan—the layout of the electronic security system—at the World Trade Center.
http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20050215bushes_3.cfm


The contractors for the permanent security system are E.J. Electric and Electronic Systems Associates, both of New York. Securacom, Woodcliff Lakes, N.J., is responsible for system integration.

Access Control & Security Systems Integration
July 1997
SECTION: Editor's Letter; ISSN: 1084-6425
LENGTH: 3516 words
HEADLINE: World Trade Center
BYLINE: By CAROL CAREY


Lot more found here:

http://www.911myths.com/html/stratesec.html
 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
42. Dozens of contracted maintenance crews
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 04:42 PM
Nov 2014

are constantly performing routine repairs and renovation work at the World Trade Center on a daily basis.
If you have ever worked in a large office building, you will know this is the case in any large high-rise office building.

No office worker inside the WTC is going to be able to tell the difference between a normal maintenance crew
and a group of those who may only be disguised as a maintenance crew.




hack89

(39,171 posts)
45. So how long did it take to smuggle in and install tons of thermate and wire it up?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 05:19 PM
Nov 2014

want to be the first to take a stab at it?

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
47. As long it takes
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 06:16 PM
Nov 2014

how would anyone else in the buildings know what they were up to? want to take a stab at it?
what would make the demolition crew appear to be different from any other maintenance crew?

or do you not have any idea? even if an office worker or two might have suspected something,
how would they prove it? suspicion is not proof.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
50. Bush took office January 2001
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 06:39 PM
Nov 2014

they had nine months to rig the buildings.

but they could have started the work even before Bush took office, as his brother Marvin Bush was on the board of directors of Stratesec from 1993 to 2000, the company in charge of WTC security according to this.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratesec


just another one of those amazing coincidences! nothing to see here move along.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
64. No link?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:11 PM
Nov 2014

you ask me to provide links and yet you expect me to just take your word for it? lol

even if true, its still possible they could have completed rigging the buildings before they left.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
66. Their financial report to the SEC says the project ended in 1998
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:16 PM
Nov 2014
Revenues decreased by 45% from $12.1 million in 1997 to $6.6 million in 1998. The decrease was due to the closeout of the World Trade Center Project.


http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037453/0000925328-99-000032.txt

And they didn't run the system after it was designed:

Stratesec installed the initial security-description plan—the layout of the electronic security system—at the World Trade Center.
http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20050215bushes_3.cfm


The contractors for the permanent security system are E.J. Electric and Electronic Systems Associates, both of New York. Securacom, Woodcliff Lakes, N.J., is responsible for system integration.

Access Control & Security Systems Integration
July 1997
SECTION: Editor's Letter; ISSN: 1084-6425
LENGTH: 3516 words
HEADLINE: World Trade Center
BYLINE: By CAROL CAREY


Lot more found here:

http://www.911myths.com/html/stratesec.html
 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
30. But molten aluminum
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:05 PM
Nov 2014

is silver in color as seen in this image.



the witnesses described molten pools at the WTC as being bright orange in color, like lava or molten steel would be.

the other problem with the aluminum theory is, when you pour water onto it molten aluminum will cool and solidify within minutes. but that will not not happen with molten steel. even as firefighters were pouring tons of water onto the debris pile every day,the molten pools in the collapsed towers did not solidify and remained molten for weeks on end, indicating molten pools of steel.


“I knew what they were standing on top of,” Giuliani says. “They were standing on top of a cauldron. They were standing on top of fires 2,000 degrees that raged for a hundred days. And they put their lives at risk raising that flag.”
- Mayor Rudy Giuliani

http://nymag.com/news/features/28517/

hack89

(39,171 posts)
31. How did it keep separate from all that molten steel? Wouldn't it mix?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:10 PM
Nov 2014

and besides - do you think any molten metal would be a pure color in that rubble pile mixed with ash and concrete dust? We are not talking about pure samples here, are we?

Molten steel does not solidify when cooled? Really?

You say the aluminum cooled and then post a link about "2,000 degrees that raged for a hundred days". So the aluminum cooled and solidified while in fires above the melting point of aluminum? Really? So what stopped that water from flashing to steam before it could cool the aluminum?

hack89

(39,171 posts)
36. Lets start with "2,000 degrees that raged for a hundred days"
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:49 PM
Nov 2014

now explain how that aluminum cooled and solidified in temperatures above the melting point of aluminum.

Simple enough for you?

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
40. Jesus Christ
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 04:21 PM
Nov 2014

Common sense: any element that has a lower melting point than steel will never cool or solidify as long as it is mixed in with a large amount of molten steel. simple enough for you? why does that even have to be explained?

at such high temperatures, the much weaker substance may very well just evaporate while the molten steel remains intact.


hack89

(39,171 posts)
43. So now the aluminum didn't cool it evaporated?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 05:14 PM
Nov 2014

you were the one that said the aluminum cooled and solidified. I take it you are retracting that statement? Good.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
46. Congrats, you live up to your name
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 06:11 PM
Nov 2014

did you flunk out of grade school science?

once again it does not cool and solidify Einstein, as long as it is emersed in the much hotter molten steel.




 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
51. Lord have mercy
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 06:46 PM
Nov 2014

I suggest you enroll in a remedial grade school science class.
maybe then you will understand why your question is such a moronic one.
but I wont hold my breath.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
53. You are the one that believes that steel beams burn like logs
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 07:55 PM
Nov 2014

lets not be talking about scientific knowledge here.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
62. That's not what I said
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 12:49 PM
Nov 2014

it was an analogy. do you know what an analogy is?
you might want to consult an English dictionary.

and if you have trouble distinguishing between silver and orange, you might want to go have your eyes checked.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
65. But a very poor analogy
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:14 PM
Nov 2014

wood logs combust through a chemical process that releases energy and generates heat. You seem to think that molten steel is not only somehow immune from cooling but can generate enough excess heat(through some unexplained process) to not only stay molten but to also melt adjacent steel beams. Do I really need to explain the 2nd law of thermodynamics?

What color is molten steel when mixed with concrete dust and other debris? Care to finally answer that question?

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
68. Absurd
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:34 PM
Nov 2014
"You seem to think that molten steel is not only somehow immune from cooling but can generate enough excess heat(through some unexplained process) to not only stay molten but to also melt adjacent steel beams. Do I really need to explain the 2nd law of thermodynamics?"


think for once. what happens when you drop a steal beam into a pool of molten steel? that's right Einsten, the steel beam itself becomes molten and the pool becomes bigger in the process. steel beams are being melted post-collapse as they fall into the molten pool at the base of the towers.


"What color is molten steel when mixed with concrete dust and other debris? Care to finally answer that question?"


another lame question. if you were paying attention, you would know all the witnesses described it as being orange or similar to lava (which is orange), like coming from a volcano, etc. I never heard anyone saying it was silver in color.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
69. There was no molten pool to fall into
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:40 PM
Nov 2014

can you show me the massive ingot of cooled steel that was finally found at the bottom of the rubble pile? You want me to believe there was a massive pool of molten steel? Provide some actual evidence.

Why would there be a pool of molten steel at the bottom of the towers? The collapse started from the top - there was no need to melt the columns at the bottom.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
70. What do you think happened to all the thermate after the collapse?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:54 PM
Nov 2014

that's right genius, it ends up at the base of the towers just like everything else in the building. where it forms a pool and melts everything that falls into it. common sense. you think all that thermate just disappears into thin air after doing its job of cutting the beams? do you understand how gravity works?

how do you explain the super high temperatures weeks after the collapse and what dozens of witnesses specifically described as molten pools of steel or lava? I guess you just want to ignore all that for the sake of maintaining the official lies and propaganda?

I guess you also believe the twin towers were "a hollow steel shaft" (as the official report would have us believe)? lol.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
73. The thermate was gone in seconds
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 03:28 PM
Nov 2014

It is not a slow motion reaction - it happens explosively.

The temperatures in the pile were due to fires and the thermal insulating effects of the pile that trapped the heat. You do agree that there were fires in the pile.

I certainly believe people saw molten aluminum. Not just steel.

What were the WTC if not a hollow steel shaft? How do you think they were constructed?

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
75. Regardless
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 03:42 PM
Nov 2014

the by-product of thermite or thermate and steel is molten iron. and there was a lot of thermate and steel.
do you know what happens when steel beams are dropped into pools of molten iron?

I certainly believe people saw molten aluminum. Not just steel.


believe what you want, but the evidence and witness testimony indicates otherwise.
the color as indicated by witnesses and seen on video, the ultra-high temperatures and duration, etc,
does not support the molten aluminum theory.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
77. There was not enough molten steel to produce pools
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 03:47 PM
Nov 2014

They just needs to cut the columns, not melt large portions of them. And they didn't even need to cut all of them, just 20 or so core columns at the impact zone.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
81. So cutting the columns would not collapse the building?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 03:57 PM
Nov 2014

But that is how every building is demolished with explosives. We keep hearing how 911 was obviously CD. Yet you are saying the WTC could not be demolished with conventional CD techniques? Why?

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
82. That's not what I said
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 04:14 PM
Nov 2014

reading comprehension isn't one of your strong suits is it?

and you expect me to believe that you're now an expert on controlled demolition? you know for a fact that they only had to severe 20 of the columns? that's the dumbest assumption I have heard since the hollow steel shaft nonsense. did you just randomly pull that number out of your rear end?


hack89

(39,171 posts)
83. There were only forty or so core columns
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 04:18 PM
Nov 2014

how many do you think had to be cut to collapse the building? OK - lets say they had to cut all of them. That still does not require you to melt entire beams.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
85. It's been explained several times
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 04:27 PM
Nov 2014

I don't enjoy repeating myself over and over to those who can't or won't read.
or keep arguing with those like yourself who like to pull out random numbers from their rear end. I'm out.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
87. So if all the core columns are cut the WTC would not collapse?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 05:14 PM
Nov 2014

you really believe that? No surprise.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
89. No doubt about that!
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 11:38 PM
Nov 2014

it was a CD.

random fires do not cause modern skyscrapers to implode and fall onto themselves in a highly symmetrical fashion, or any fashion.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
91. Which means the columns did not have to be melted, just cut.
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 07:32 AM
Nov 2014

You know it was not a random fire. There was also massive structural damage due to a fully loaded 767 crashing into the towers at high speed. You are not a no planer are you?

hack89

(39,171 posts)
92. So why didn't they use high explosives?
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 10:23 AM
Nov 2014

that's what I don't understand. High explosive cutting charges are compact, easy to install and well known. Why would they attempted the largest CD ever attempted using methods never used before for building demolition. That is what has never made sense to me - it would have been easier using high explosives. Thermate complicates things immensely. For one thing, where are you going to get that many thermate charges? Since no one uses thermate for CD, it is not like there is a company cranking out tons of the stuff.

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
54. "emersed"?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 08:48 PM
Nov 2014

did you flunk out of grade school English?
might want to be careful about lecturing others...

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
67. says the guy who said
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:18 PM
Nov 2014

"did you flunk out of grade school science?"

Look up the word "irony" while you're at it.

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
79. Uh huh
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 03:52 PM
Nov 2014

seriously, you really got your ass handed to you.
shouldn't you be off licking your wounds?
or perhaps, do what you did before and change your name?

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
88. Where'd you go to school? The Ebonics Academy?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 11:25 PM
Nov 2014

Let me know when you've acquired third grade grammar and spelling proficiency, and learned how to count.

then maybe one day people might be able to take you seriously, but don't quote me on that.

William Seger

(10,778 posts)
10. "...at one point I think they were at 2800 degrees! "
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 12:30 PM
Oct 2014

He may think that, but it isn't true: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0429/thermal.r09.html

AVIRIS records the near-infrared signature of heat remotely. The accompanying maps are false color images that show the core affected area around the World Trade Center. Initial analysis of these data revealed a number of thermal hot spots on September 16 in the region where the buildings collapsed 5 days earlier. Analysis of the data indicates temperatures greater than 800oF.

William Seger

(10,778 posts)
13. That's the only series of aerial "hotspot" readings that were taken
Sun Nov 2, 2014, 10:54 PM
Nov 2014

Show me a documented temperature that was higher.

But no, you can't judge temperatures by the color in a video. They aren't that accurate to start with, and then in any given shot, the recorded color depends on things like the camera's settings for exposure, saturation and white balance.

superbeachnut

(381 posts)
12. No melted steel on 911, 911 truth fails, and falls short of Creative Speculation standards
Sun Nov 2, 2014, 12:51 AM
Nov 2014

13 years and no evidence of melted steel.

911 truth, no evidence movement.

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
39. FEMA: Limited Metallurgical Examination
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 04:04 PM
Nov 2014

WTC 7 Sample 1

"Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible"

"The eutectic temperature for this mixture strongly suggests that the temperatures in this region of the steel beam approached 1,000 C (1,800 F) which is substantially lower than would be expected for melting this steel."

Summary for Sample 1:

2. Heating of the steel into a hot corrosive environment approaching 1,000 C (1,800 F) results in the formation of a eutectic mixture of iron, oxygen and sulfur that liquefied the steel.

FEMA STUDY (PDF) http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_apc.pdf

hack89

(39,171 posts)
59. Having posted a mechanism to melt steel after the collapse without thermite
Tue Nov 4, 2014, 11:08 AM
Nov 2014

but rather with chemicals found in the rubble pile and fire, what are you trying to tell us here?

superbeachnut

(381 posts)
60. 1000 C means no melted steel. You proved no melted steel on 911 - you are a debunker
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 01:10 AM
Nov 2014

You proved no melted steel, it was corrosion. You don't understand what a eutectic is, that is chemical engineering, and it means no melted steel.

You are also debunking 911 truth who say the temperature was that of thermite, and you posted proof of temperature up to 1000 C. And you posted the explanation. Double fail - not understanding chemical engineering, and debunking melted steel.

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