JFC I am now convinced people will believe any old stupid bullshit.... :24:
Molten iron:
1. I've never seen any evidence there was actual molten iron, no pictures and no quotes from anybody but conspiracy nuts.
2. If it was there, there are several potential explanations that I can think of based off my high school chemistry class oh so long ago.
a: Its entirely possible at high temperatures (say above ~500C) for large pieces of iron to enter exothermic fast oxidation. If you don't believe iron will burn, put a match to a piece of steel wool and see what happens. Its a function of heat transfer, surface area and volume but even larger pieces can be coaxed into burning at sufficient temp.
b: The WTC was full of sheetrock(drywall) which is made out of gypsum. Subjected to sufficient heat, gypsum decomposes into several compounds including sulphur dioxide. Sulphur reacts with steel to form Iron Sulphide (FeS) which are known for the ease with which they combust.
Thats two reactions that could continue to produce heat for quite a while and I'm sure there are probably more given the volume and variety of material in the wreckage.
Silversteins $15,000,000 investment turned into a $2,000,000,000 payout in insurance.
Yeah he put up $15 million of his own money coupled with another $3.535
Billion from his company and a partner company.
$2 Billion insurance payout - $3.535 Billion Total Investment = -$1.535 Billion
Oh and BTW, like lots of insurance, they don't get to pocket the money, it has to go into rebuilding, which cost estimates pegged at north of $6 billion a few years ago.
Thats a helluva loss for a genius level conspiracy. If I was a conspiracy investor I'd sue for mis-management... :24:
For anybody that thinks thermite was used, find me a
working mechanism that would allow thermite to cut horizontally through a large vertical beam. It has to have been
demonstrated to work not just a drawing on a piece of paper or a concept.
For the explosive demolition believers, I'd love an explanation for how the conspirators were ninja enough to sneak around inside a building with several thousand workers such that nobody ever sees anything suspicious in the weeks or months leading up to the attack. :ninja
Either that or explain to me just who the hell was brave enough to run around structurally damaged buildings that are on fire planting explosives while their evil genius boss is sitting with their finger on the big red button. :eek
As far as the collapse of WTC7... The NIST report has been shot full of holes by structural engineers.
Who? What Civil Engineer PE has gone on record with their own peer reviewed analysis that contradicts NIST and where is the paper?
The only independent paper that I've been able to find that managed to make it into a journal of record confirms the NIST. Again, these behaviors are well understood and if the analysis was wrong, every PE in the land would be talking about it. There would be papers flying all over the place tearing into the NIST report, but strangely enough, there arent'...
The raw data that was used for the NIST modeling has not been released and will not be released.
What data are you talking about? The properties and behavior of steel are well know. Having read a fair portion of the NIST report, their work is fairly easily replicated using off the shelf analysis software and the contents of the report. Steel is steel, fire is fire, they didn't use any special super secret data in their analysis, its all readily available from any engineering textbook.
The original blueprints for the building have gone missing.
A. I find that hard to believe.
B. Lets assume they were "lost" on purpose. What exactly does that gain anybody involved? WTC 7 was designed and built in the 80s. The guys that did the design are still alive and kicking and probably the majority are still working. If the NIST or anybody else lied about the way the place was put together, don't you think one of the guys who actually did the design might pop up and say "Hey it wasn't like that." :nod:
) That doesn't gie a reason for purposely demolishing #7.
