The great thermite debate.

ginjawarrior

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I'm going to have to disagree, I've built steel buildings, I have seen first hand how steel fails under load at height.
is there any difference to when it fails at load at ground level?
you claim to be a knowledgeable steel worker but you

overlook evidence of welding..
cant understand implications of losing many supports of a vertical building...
dont know the difference between box steel and reinforced concrete..
simple gravity..

now i can believe you may have been in charge of a broom at a steel company but i have to seriously doubt you were called upon for "expertise"
 

doc111

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I'm going to have to disagree, I've built steel buildings, I have seen first hand how steel fails under load at height.

Bringing the towers down made it personal to every American, and when you get personally you became enraged and distraught, have you ever made clear and concise decisions when you were so mad you could feel your eye bulging? Probably not. Bringing them down also allow WTC 7 to get hit the day after 2.3 trillion dollars were unaccounted for. 2.3 trillion dollars, that sounds like plenty of money going somewhere doesn't it? And all the evidence is gone, that money vanished after 9/11. That's price I put on that day for an anyone who could possibly pull this off. Let me ask you, what would you do for 2.3 trillion dollars if you were given the chance?

Also, back to the Towers being an emotional thought, people would not find much middle ground when they had their mindset, it's human nature to take a side and stick with it, once certain people make their decision they will not break free of that decisions easily and would consider anything of the contrary to be hog wash and an insult. NOW am I clear there?
I never said steel wouldn't fail. It does have SOME elasticity to it. I didn't say it was rubber. lol!

I sure as shit wouldn't kill even a single person for $2.3 trillion. It could be $23 trillion or $230 trillion. It wouldn't make a bit of difference to me. No amount of money is worthing taking a life.
 

doc111

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me actually i found batcave.com back in 2002/2003 i watched alex jones on it and then i
believed
i remember going somewhere with my dad in car telling him about all the evidence he replied something along the lines of
" you really think the american government could a. do something so big b. keep it secret?"
to which my reply was very similar to sync0s

to which my dad just gave me a proper funny look. but of course i was right so i brushed it off as he hadn't seen "evidence" i had

anyway shortly after that i lost internet for a while and when i returned to research "new discoveries" it very quickly turned out the "evidence" didn't actually stack up

not only that but it became more and more idiotic as the years went by

and now that look from my dad stings me every time i think of it
I lol'd hard at this^^!!!! But it's so true! lmfao!!!!!:clap:
 

hazyintentions

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1. and? they were ejected before they were burnt up.
it might seem impossible that anything would survive a fireball like that so let me show you a bigger fireball
[youtube]JmWbV_YkQT0[/youtube]
mach 20 40iles in the air everything would be destroyed right?
certainly nothing living could survive could it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2992123.stm
2.looks like wreckage to me...
http://www.rense.com/general32/phot.htm

3. related? wouldn't conspirator keep quiet rather than own up if they were destroying evidence....?
4. this ones simple you got most of working out done yourself "around 2,000 degrees F"

notice at 1000'f steel has just 40% original strength?
5. mentioned in this thread already building 7 was hit by falling skyscraper.
no video's show anything "blown up demolition style"
"pull it" = reference to pulling fire crews from dangerously unstable building
6. highly edited quotes none of the firemen at the scene have been repeating daid claims last decade
also watch this and tell me where explosions are?
[youtube]X_B7vmGVUAI[/youtube]

you had 10 years to find all this out
So you are proposing that the terrorists conveniently opened a window while traveling 500 mph and tossed the passports out ehh? Can you prove the passports were found before the collapse? Not that it really matters to me, it's simply that you find nothing wrong with how unlikely the entire situation is that doesn't work for me.

That debris has a long time to eject, I am talking about a plane that was one whole piece and a split second later was a thousand pieces embed deep inside a building followed momentarily by a fireball.

To believe two passports made it out of their container (luggage, pants pocket, suitcase) then somehow survived the initial impact and following fire ball to proceed to just slowly drift to the ground is absolute gullibility on your part sir.

Your third point is redundant, the 2.3 trillion is plenty of motive for any small organization. At that point I'm not convinced the government did have a part in this but some other party could've and the government could've simply failed to follow up with a sustaining and irrefutable investigation.
^ I know you'll argue the investigations you refer to are "foul" proof but I don't agree when so many Americans disagree.


4. I've been thinking about this one.

You would have to rely on the fire's burning completely even through the entire building to soften up every single steel girder to fail almost simultaneously. Not to mention that the building had considerably more damage at one corner than the opposite corner yet still somehow the entire building collapsed into itself a split second after the affected corner began to collapse.

reasons it through your head all you want I have come to surmise that unless those fires burned consistently and evenly through the entire structure across entire floors and multiple floors that building should not have collapsed into it's own foot pring in the same fashion as a demo'd building does.

The whole "pull it" argument is conjecture and I won't address that, of course the guy wanted to get his fireman from a building that appeared unstable. regardless of what me or you believe's the cause to me, he had to watch out for his men's lives.

I have a feeling debating with you is going t be like trying to explain Austrian economics to the White House. Pointless.








see my post above + the passports were found before collapse + a scant few other items made their way out of planes to be found

only whistle blowers are people who weren't involved or people lacking in expertisethe

Other "items" please explain .

How did you see it that 9/11 families aren't involved or that Professors with Ph.D's in physics and engineering as well retired Air Force Lieutenants are lacking" of expertise in these subjects?

government did find out why it collapsed.
the glaringly obvious laws of physics probably lured them into false sense of security when it came to spelling it out to the population tho

The only thing glaring is that the building fell into itself against the path of most resistance from the inside out. So why don't you school me in physics while your at it?

Formula's with proven data would be the best way to reinforce your argument there.

"iron rich spheres"? tell me as a steel worker yourself you think they did any welding while putting up towers?

no thermite was found. the tests they used were shoddy an they refused for samples to be independently examined pure nonsense
I have thought about the welding done on these towers to produce such spheres and for me the jury is still out on that one, I need to see the elemental profile of weld splatters compared side by side by side to the iron rich spheres found in the dust and spheres produced from thermitic reactions before I get conclusive there.

Did you find any experiment like that done on your debunking sites? If they did that the results could really push the train of thought one way or the other on this issue at hand.

Like I said, jury is still out on this one.

flight school drop outs right? far too many quotes saying otherwise heres link
http://www.911myths.com/html/flight_school_dropouts.html

also you claim they're bad pilots but ask why the didn't hit top of pentagon?
care to rethink that question?
That was a good read you posted, glad I picked up some more knowledge there and I'm glad there was quotes from both sides of the fence there but it's contradicting, I didn't see a clear trend, just quotes of some people saying on thing and others saying another.

My claims are admittedly contradictory but here's the scenarios.

You have shitty pilots managing to pull off a 330 degree turn with a fully loaded 737, plane out and fly mere feet from the ground to crash into the only reinforced side of the pentagon.

You have trained pilots managing to pull off a 330 degree turn with a fully loaded 737, plane out and fly mere feet from the ground to crash into the only reinforced side of the pentagon.

My questions is how did they manage to get such certifications with such contradicting quotes from each side? Sure the flight school was in 2000 but do you seriously expect a civilian level pilot to gain enough skills to pull a of maneuver that is admittedly difficult even for Air Force pilots with many hours experinece and slam into the only part of the Pentagon meant for a plane attack which caused the least damage? :confused:

Next scenarios :

You have lousy pilots flying at a 45 degree descent into the pentagon causing damage to multiple rings of the pentagon where more sensitive operations occur.

You have trained pilots flying at a 45 degree descent into the pentagon causing damage to multiple rings of the pentagon where more sensitive operations occur.

My question I pose to you is if they were trained enough to have the rudimentary skills to pull of the pentagon strike why didn't they have the brains to crash into the building from above?

Also, why is it do you think the Pentagon doesn't have any other video of the incident released? Do you believe the Pentagon had no other security cameras point at that side of the lawn that captured the plane? Why don't they release such video if there is nothing to hide? That's fishy my friend.

6 miles? care to say what debris was? paper? insulation?
i know engine made it a few hundred feet but its hardly something to write hoe about in 600mph crash
Whatever it was it was enough for the government to seal it off and not allow any cameras near it, if it was paper why would that do that?






Good video at the end, no sensationalism. BUT I am completely uneasy until the other security footage is released. Why is it that our government would use such an unclear, unfocused and partially blocked video for footage when they must have had better angles of the event.

Rebuttal.
 

NoDrama

Well-Known Member
Everyone seems to forget that all the Steel in the building was covered with a slurry of Asbestos. In order for the Steel to melt the asbestos would have to melt off first. Asbestos melts at 1800F+.

Also look at the smoke, a fireman can tell you that when the smoke starts going black the fire is dying and there is less heat than a fire that emits white smoke.
 

hazyintentions

Well-Known Member
Everyone seems to forget that all the Steel in the building was covered with a slurry of Asbestos. In order for the Steel to melt the asbestos would have to melt off first. Asbestos melts at 1800F+.

Also look at the smoke, a fireman can tell you that when the smoke starts going black the fire is dying and there is less heat than a fire that emits white smoke.
Good point, black smoke usually signals a lack of oxygen if I'm correct.
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
So you are proposing that the terrorists conveniently opened a window while traveling 500 mph and tossed the passports out ehh? Can you prove the passports were found before the collapse? Not that it really matters to me, it's simply that you find nothing wrong with how unlikely the entire situation is that doesn't work for me.

That debris has a long time to eject, I am talking about a plane that was one whole piece and a split second later was a thousand pieces embed deep inside a building followed momentarily by a fireball.

To believe two passports made it out of their container (luggage, pants pocket, suitcase) then somehow survived the initial impact and following fire ball to proceed to just slowly drift to the ground is absolute gullibility on your part sir.

Your third point is redundant, the 2.3 trillion is plenty of motive for any small organization. At that point I'm not convinced the government did have a part in this but some other party could've and the government could've simply failed to follow up with a sustaining and irrefutable investigation.
^ I know you'll argue the investigations you refer to are "foul" proof but I don't agree when so many Americans disagree.


4. I've been thinking about this one.

You would have to rely on the fire's burning completely even through the entire building to soften up every single steel girder to fail almost simultaneously. Not to mention that the building had considerably more damage at one corner than the opposite corner yet still somehow the entire building collapsed into itself a split second after the affected corner began to collapse.

reasons it through your head all you want I have come to surmise that unless those fires burned consistently and evenly through the entire structure across entire floors and multiple floors that building should not have collapsed into it's own foot pring in the same fashion as a demo'd building does.

The whole "pull it" argument is conjecture and I won't address that, of course the guy wanted to get his fireman from a building that appeared unstable. regardless of what me or you believe's the cause to me, he had to watch out for his men's lives.

I have a feeling debating with you is going t be like trying to explain Austrian economics to the White House. Pointless.











Other "items" please explain .

How did you see it that 9/11 families aren't involved or that Professors with Ph.D's in physics and engineering as well retired Air Force Lieutenants are lacking" of expertise in these subjects?




The only thing glaring is that the building fell into itself against the path of most resistance from the inside out. So why don't you school me in physics while your at it?

Formula's with proven data would be the best way to reinforce your argument there.



I have thought about the welding done on these towers to produce such spheres and for me the jury is still out on that one, I need to see the elemental profile of weld splatters compared side by side by side to the iron rich spheres found in the dust and spheres produced from thermitic reactions before I get conclusive there.

Did you find any experiment like that done on your debunking sites? If they did that the results could really push the train of thought one way or the other on this issue at hand.

Like I said, jury is still out on this one.



That was a good read you posted, glad I picked up some more knowledge there and I'm glad there was quotes from both sides of the fence there but it's contradicting, I didn't see a clear trend, just quotes of some people saying on thing and others saying another.

My claims are admittedly contradictory but here's the scenarios.

You have shitty pilots managing to pull off a 330 degree turn with a fully loaded 737, plane out and fly mere feet from the ground to crash into the only reinforced side of the pentagon.

You have trained pilots managing to pull off a 330 degree turn with a fully loaded 737, plane out and fly mere feet from the ground to crash into the only reinforced side of the pentagon.

My questions is how did they manage to get such certifications with such contradicting quotes from each side? Sure the flight school was in 2000 but do you seriously expect a civilian level pilot to gain enough skills to pull a of maneuver that is admittedly difficult even for Air Force pilots with many hours experinece and slam into the only part of the Pentagon meant for a plane attack which caused the least damage? :confused:

Next scenarios :

You have lousy pilots flying at a 45 degree descent into the pentagon causing damage to multiple rings of the pentagon where more sensitive operations occur.

You have trained pilots flying at a 45 degree descent into the pentagon causing damage to multiple rings of the pentagon where more sensitive operations occur.

My question I pose to you is if they were trained enough to have the rudimentary skills to pull of the pentagon strike why didn't they have the brains to crash into the building from above?

Also, why is it do you think the Pentagon doesn't have any other video of the incident released? Do you believe the Pentagon had no other security cameras point at that side of the lawn that captured the plane? Why don't they release such video if there is nothing to hide? That's fishy my friend.



Whatever it was it was enough for the government to seal it off and not allow any cameras near it, if it was paper why would that do that?






Good video at the end, no sensationalism. BUT I am completely uneasy until the other security footage is released. Why is it that our government would use such an unclear, unfocused and partially blocked video for footage when they must have had better angles of the event.

Rebuttal.
http://www.911myths.com/html/passport_recovered.html

^^^passports

also your so adamant nothing could survive i would absolutely love you to explain the LIVE samples recovered from a fireball doing mach 20 40miles in the air?///

i think you getting the "chance of something happening" confused with "shit that has already happened"

unless they are 911 families who were there then their opinion on what happened is irrelevant unless it is supported by evidence

"Professors with Ph.D's"? they objecting too?
GREAT!!! that means you have peer reviewed papers to link too.


4. im pretty damn sure the laws of phsics dont care how you think it happens

"Formula's with proven data would be the best way to reinforce your argument there."

perhaps after you go and brush up on kinetic energy
i.e. i want to see you know how much energy in 200ton aircraft traveling @ 600mph
and how much energy in 20story building falling 10 foot
otherwise i'd just be wasting both our time

"I have thought about the welding done on these towers to produce such spheres and for me the jury is still out on that one, I need to see the elemental profile of weld splatters compared side by side by side to the iron rich spheres found in the dust and spheres produced from thermitic reactions before I get conclusive there. "

sounds to me you already have conclusion....

"Also, why is it do you think the Pentagon doesn't have any other video of the incident released? Do you believe the Pentagon had no other security cameras point at that side of the lawn that captured the plane? Why don't they release such video if there is nothing to hide? That's fishy my friend."

yep i believe precisely that and will continue to do so until i am sown what cameras "should" have recorded it

" BUT I am completely uneasy until the other security footage is released. Why is it that our government would use such an unclear, unfocused and partially blocked video for footage when they must have had better angles of the event. "

why must they havent you seen size of lawn? that itself is very good security and the needed people with guns to guard entrances, so they were well equipped to see/ stop anyone before they got close to pentagon
 

NoDrama

Well-Known Member
people also do not consider that all that metal connected together also acts like a GIANT Heatsink. Applying heat to one area will dissipate over the entire structure due to all the metal sucking the heat away from the source. You can experiment with this yourself by using a butane lighter (About 3500F) and a small 3" piece of coat hanger wire. Notice the flame temperature is more than enough heat to melt steel, now hold that 3" piece of metal rod in your hand and start trying to melt the tip, what happens? You drop the wire? Why? Heatsink action made it burn your hand didn't it? Use a pliers and see how long it takes to melt just the tip. It will never melt because the surface area is too large, not any different than those huge asbestos covered box beams in the WTC. Which is anothe point of contention, those box beams have a large airspace in between them, in order for the whole beam to soften all sides of the beam would have to get to near melting point, that wouldn't happen with a huge insulator in the middle (Air).
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
Everyone seems to forget that all the Steel in the building was covered with a slurry of Asbestos. In order for the Steel to melt the asbestos would have to melt off first. Asbestos melts at 1800F+.

Also look at the smoke, a fireman can tell you that when the smoke starts going black the fire is dying and there is less heat than a fire that emits white smoke.
i'd love to refer you to your fellow twoofers previous statement

4. The steel used to construct the WTC melts at 3,000 degrees F. Jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt the steel in 23 minutes to collapse the building. The fuel reached around 2,000 degrees F at it's hottest point.
white smoke really? now your clutching at straws
 

NoDrama

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Isn't finding a intact plastic credit card that survived the impact and the fire pretty much proof that the fire never got hot enough to weaken the steel enough to cause the building to crumble? They supposedly found the credit card in the rubble, but if the fires were so hot they weakened steel then the card would have melted.
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
people also do not consider that all that metal connected together also acts like a GIANT Heatsink. Applying heat to one area will dissipate over the entire structure due to all the metal sucking the heat away from the source. You can experiment with this yourself by using a butane lighter (About 3500F) and a small 3" piece of coat hanger wire. Notice the flame temperature is more than enough heat to melt steel, now hold that 3" piece of metal rod in your hand and start trying to melt the tip, what happens? You drop the wire? Why? Heatsink action made it burn your hand didn't it? Use a pliers and see how long it takes to melt just the tip. It will never melt because the surface area is too large, not any different than those huge asbestos covered box beams in the WTC. Which is anothe point of contention, those box beams have a large airspace in between them, in order for the whole beam to soften all sides of the beam would have to get to near melting point, that wouldn't happen with a huge insulator in the middle (Air).
heat difference along with some beams expanding more than others was a big factor in failure

notice you said 3" of course your fingers get hot.
try 3' do your fingers get hot? no?
well try the other end surely the heat transference in the metal wouldnt allow it to burn you?
 

ginjawarrior

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Isn't finding a intact plastic credit card that survived the impact and the fire pretty much proof that the fire never got hot enough to weaken the steel enough to cause the building to crumble? They supposedly found the credit card in the rubble, but if the fires were so hot they weakened steel then the card would have melted.
lol you couldn't make this up...

now your gonna tell me next columbia didn't crash
 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
Isn't finding a intact plastic credit card that survived the impact and the fire pretty much proof that the fire never got hot enough to weaken the steel enough to cause the building to crumble? They supposedly found the credit card in the rubble, but if the fires were so hot they weakened steel then the card would have melted.
the credit card was ejected from flight 93 not the wtc so nothing to do with steel
 

NoDrama

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the credit card was ejected from flight 93 not the wtc so nothing to do with steel
no, it was on flight 175, you know one of the planes that slammed into WTC?

The Rancho Santa Margarita woman was on United Flight 175 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when it became the second plane to slam into the World Trade Center...

 

ginjawarrior

Well-Known Member
no, it was on flight 175, you know one of the planes that slammed into WTC?


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ok i had missed that and seen

"Those items, such as a wedding ring and other jewelry, photos, credit cards, purses and their contents, shoes, a wallet and currency, are among seven boxes of identified personal effects salvaged from the site.
http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011230flight931230p3.asp"

if it was thrown clear by impact then it would't have been in fire

or you now trying to tout this as proof of no fire at all?
 

feff f

Active Member
Everyone seems to forget that all the Steel in the building was covered with a slurry of Asbestos. In order for the Steel to melt the asbestos would have to melt off first. Asbestos melts at 1800F+.

Also look at the smoke, a fireman can tell you that when the smoke starts going black the fire is dying and there is less heat than a fire that emits white smoke.

any chance that a 600 mph jumbo jet may have knocked the slurry off the pillars/steel/peoples dentures?

come on drama, you are almost there.....terrorists knocked down the buildings. not george bush.
 

feff f

Active Member
i'd love to refer you to your fellow twoofers previous statement



white smoke really? now your clutching at straws

not to mention the multiple tapes available that shows about half the plane and other shit smashing completely through the buildings opposite sides.

whats more amazing than the conspiracy bullshit, is that the building survived the initial impact so well. half of that building was severed instantly and it still held.
 

hazyintentions

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not to mention the multiple tapes available that shows about half the plane and other shit smashing completely through the buildings opposite sides.

whats more amazing than the conspiracy bullshit, is that the building survived the initial impact so well. half of that building was severed instantly and it still held.
I'm too busy with homework to reply to both you and ginjawarrior for now, sorry nodrama, but you have to be consistent in this issue but well all know how consistent the events of 9/11 were.
 
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