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gang ah jee

Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
| (a statement that I find odd, considering the ubiquitous nature of such establishments in this beloved ROK). |
I live in New Zealand. Our geographic isolation and low population density present some serious challenges to the establishment of the infrastructure needed for cheap, widely available broadband.
Just curious, at what temperature does steel weaken enough to make collapse viable? |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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I am not sure, but according to the tests that were done on the small amount of steel that was examined, temperatures didn't even reach
600 degrees celsius. (which is not even close to the point at which steel loses about half it's strength 1200)
Also, according to those same tests, the steel trusses did not fail....even when double the load was applied to the top and even hotter temperatures were reached.
Check: Http://www.911research.wtc7.net/reviews/kevin_ryan/newstandard.html
There is a section labeled NIST's methods and a sub-section
D Laboratory Tests.
Further down you can find this:
4. How hot Could the Steel have become?
Here Ryan fills in another gap in NIST's theory by doing a calculation they neglected to, that to determine how much heat energy was available and how much it could have raised steel temperatures. Ryan and others have done the calculation using only assumptions favorable to the collapse theory:
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NIST now says about 4,500 gallons of jet fuel were available to feed fires -- 590,000 MJ of energy
Office furnishings in the impact zone would have provided 490,000 MJ of energy
Using masses and specific heats for materials heated, a maximum temp in the impact zone can be calculated.
The result is less than 600 degrees F
Assuming fuel bruned with perfect efficiency, that no hot gases left the impact zone, no heat escaped by conduction, steel and concrete had unlimited amount of time to absorb all the heat
Thus, the maximum temperatures that could have been attained by the steel were much too low to soften it. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
Just curious, at what temperature does steel weaken enough to make collapse viable? |
http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
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7a. How could the steel have melted if the fires in the WTC towers weren�t hot enough to do so?
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7b. Since the melting point of steel is about 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of jet fuel fires does not exceed 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certified the steel in the WTC towers to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for six hours, how could fires have impacted the steel enough to bring down the WTC towers?
In no instance did NIST report that steel in the WTC towers melted due to the fires. The melting point of steel is about 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,800 degrees Fahrenheit). Normal building fires and hydrocarbon (e.g., jet fuel) fires generate temperatures up to about 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,000 degrees Fahrenheit). NIST reported maximum upper layer air temperatures of about 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,800 degrees Fahrenheit) in the WTC towers (for example, see NCSTAR 1, Figure 6-36).
However, when bare steel reaches temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius, it softens and its strength reduces to roughly 10 percent of its room temperature value. Steel that is unprotected (e.g., if the fireproofing is dislodged) can reach the air temperature within the time period that the fires burned within the towers. Thus, yielding and buckling of the steel members (floor trusses, beams, and both core and exterior columns) with missing fireproofing were expected under the fire intensity and duration determined by NIST for the WTC towers. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
Huffdaddy won't watch it because he says it's "full of lies and distortions".
(how he can say this when he admits that he won't watch it is beyond me) |
I've read the summary. No equations, no references, no peer review. Just a non-scientist spouting his views. Worthless, IMO. He'd be laughed out of a dissertation defense. Not that they'd ever let him get that far.
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| I personally don't need a "peer-reviewed" paper to tell me that 1+1 does not equal 3. If you do, then I think there is something seriously wrong with your thinking. |
If you can't prove your point, always go with the non sequiter straw man ad hominem. To each his own, I guess. I actually value the scientific process. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: |
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http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/analysis/fires/steel_fire_resistance.htm
http://www.911research.wtc7.net/reviews/kevin_ryan/newstandard.html
5. Some floors began to sag?
Step five in NIST's collapse theory is that floors began to sag. The idea that fires could have caused floors to sag is not unreasonable, since it has been observed in fire tests and in cases of severe fires in steel-framed buildings, such as the One Meridian Plaza fire.
What is not reasonable is the degree of sagging NIST used in its computer models compared with the amounts its physical tests showed. Whereas the 35-foot floor model sagged only a few inches in the middle after two hours in a high-temperature furnace, NIST's computer model showed a sagging of 54 inches. |
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gang ah jee

Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:30 am Post subject: |
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Well, I'm still finding NIST a lot more convincing. And if it's a conspiracy the planes thing just weirds me out. Why not just bomb the towers and blame that on al-Qaeda? Seems a lot simpler to me.
So some waygug-in, what evidence would it take to convince you that the collapses were due to impact and fire? |
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laogaiguk

Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
Well, I'm still finding NIST a lot more convincing. And if it's a conspiracy the planes thing just weirds me out. Why not just bomb the towers and blame that on al-Qaeda? Seems a lot simpler to me.
So some waygug-in, what evidence would it take to convince you that the collapses were due to impact and fire? |
hhhhhuhhhh... Why don't you guys get it, it was him...
Who else would want to throw the world into confusion but the Great Xenu. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
Well, I'm still finding NIST a lot more convincing. And if it's a conspiracy the planes thing just weirds me out. Why not just bomb the towers and blame that on al-Qaeda? Seems a lot simpler to me.
So some waygug-in, what evidence would it take to convince you that the collapses were due to impact and fire? |
Well, for starters an independant investigation where the people aren't hand-picked by the Bush administration. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
| some waygug-in wrote: |
Huffdaddy won't watch it because he says it's "full of lies and distortions".
(how he can say this when he admits that he won't watch it is beyond me) |
I've read the summary. No equations, no references, no peer review. Just a non-scientist spouting his views. Worthless, IMO. He'd be laughed out of a dissertation defense. Not that they'd ever let him get that far.
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| I personally don't need a "peer-reviewed" paper to tell me that 1+1 does not equal 3. If you do, then I think there is something seriously wrong with your thinking. |
If you can't prove your point, always go with the non sequiter straw man ad hominem. To each his own, I guess. I actually value the scientific process. |
So you say Kevin Ryan is not a scientist....well last I heard, chemistry is still a branch of science.
So in Kevin Ryan's own words:
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So I'm not an engineer, I'm a chemist. I got involved with this because of communications made to me both verbally and in writing about UL's involvement in testing the materials related to the World Trade Center buildings. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
So you say Kevin Ryan is not a scientist....well last I heard, chemistry is still a branch of science. |
Sorry, I misspoke. So he's a "scientist". Not a very good one, but I guess you can call him a scientist. And I'm a scientist too. A social scientist, but hey, I've got the degree and work experience to prove it. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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some waygug-in
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:18 am Post subject: |
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Webster Tarpley also has some very interesting ideas concerning 911.
For those of you who are unable to watch videos, here is a transcript of one of his speeches:
http://www.waronfreedom.org/wgt-sf-speech.html
a small quote:
We are dealing with state-sponsored, false flag terrorism. I don't mean state-sponsored in the sense that it has to be sponsored by the entire command structure of the country in question, but that it is carried forward by a private network ensconced and infesting decisive nodal points in the state apparatus of that country. I'll try to show you what I mean. |
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regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Location: United States
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject: education forum |
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check out:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com
The site is run by a couple of Brits and a very nice site.
for disscussion on this an other topics.
There is an efl section, but it is not presently used very often. |
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Meegook

Joined: 12 Oct 2006
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry, I misspoke. So he's a "scientist". Not a very good one, but I guess you can call him a scientist. And I'm a scientist too. A social scientist, but hey, I've got the degree and work experience to prove it. |
And from the evidence you present here, we're quite sure your a good social siceintist. LMFHO
A recent New York Times/CBS poll shows 85% of Americans believe the US government was some how involved in 9/11.
For the remaining 15% the fact that their government would commit such an atrocious act against its own citizens is just too much to bear. It would completely throw their world view into a tailspin and cause them to face an enitirely different reality.
Not being able to face reality is a major cause of mental illness. It's not much of a step from that fact to suggest that at least 15% of the population is mentally ill to one degree or another. |
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huffdaddy
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