yeah ok read my post above that one and that will answer both of those, sorry to burst your truther bubble. you also have to remember to calculate in that it wasn't just jet fuel burning in the building, there's a lot of plastic (which are made of what, boys and girls? hydrocarbons). it can't be individually calculated, go get me access to the supercomputer and a team like Purdue has, and then maybe, but until then this pointless tabloid trash isn't worth my time.
edit: if you're going to get onto me about that "duhurr it fell faster than free fall!", that's impossible without an outside force pushing or pulling it down enough to break the normal air resistance, because there's a thing called terminal velocity. nothing experiences true free fall within earth's atmosphere.
So, you're saying that jet fuel and burning plastic had enough thermal energy to take each of the floors to the brink of collapse, including the main steel columns? To such a degree that the structure would collapse straight down? Into the area of most resistance? Perhaps if you give me something a little bit more concrete (hahahaha, sorry), then I might be persuaded.
You also seem to be saying that the issue of thermal conductance in the structure, and huge cooling effect of the structure from the prevailing wind should be ignored because you feel it would take a supercomputer to reach a satisfactory answer. It sounds like you're just dismissing information there, because you don't want to have to deal with it. Ok, we'll just throw that bit out then, shall we? Reminds me of the NIST report. Great methodology - 'we'll get rid of that bit, we can't answer it'.
Good job the architects thought of that bit and the entire superstructure was designed to act as a heatsink (without the use of a supercomputer, too). This is one of the reasons that steel structured building don't collapse due to fire - EVER!!
Oh wait, apart from those three on 9/11.
I also stand by my question to which you referred me to a previous post. If that's your answer, then you have a very limited understanding of what you are claiming to know. Laughable.
Faster than freefall? Loading answers and presuming what I meant may be a wonderful boost to your swaggering intellectual ego, and may give you a fleeting self-masturbatory buzz.... Sadly, all it does is make you seem a tiny bit ignorant once again. What about the upward force? Yes, THE STRUCTURE!! Falling at NEAR FREEFALL speed would indicate the complete lack of resistance from the underlying structure.
"Dude you're the conspiracy theorist". That sticks so well.
Oh, oh, oh!!! Not quite done yet..... I forgot to laugh at this bit:
you don't think that the steel had been heated enough to reach that brittle point to where the second plane striking would cause such a strong vibration in the area that all the weight on top of the already weakened structure would cause it to fall?
erm...now I'm done.
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