There have been numbers conspiracies regarding the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, but nearly all of them hinge on the oft-touted fact that the temperature at which jet fuel burns is significantly lower than the temperature at which steel melts.
Well, an iron worker on YouTube is causing quite a stir among people who believe that the towers were not, in fact, brought down by the jets flown into them.
In the video, the man attempts to debunk the theory that structural steel would remain strong at the temperature at which jet fuel burns by heating a peace of structural metal to that very temperature and bending it easily.
Move on to page 2 for the video:
JFC!!!! The beams DID NOT HAVE TO MELT! THEY ONLY NEEDED TO BE WEAKENED SUCH THAT THEY WOULD LOSE THEIR ABILITY TO HOLD THE SAME AMOUNT OF LOAD!!!!
Bldg 7…I’ve long said it was probably demo’d to prevent the fire(s) from spreading and turning an already catastrophic situation into something worse.
I believe GWB.
I am not a metalurgist or those people who analyze structural fires, but it seems to me that the likely senario is that the vast bulk of jet fuel would have been burned up shortly after impact so the remaining fire would be fueled mostly by the contents of the building, which very unlikely burned hot enough to weaken the structural steel in the amount of time it took before the towers collapsed. All pictures show black clouds, indicative of an oxygen starved fire, a fire not nearly hot enough to cause collapse.This video proves nothing.
Thanks Dennis.
Russell that beam was probably cut as part of the initial rescue/cleanup operations. Nothing to prove this photo is anything other than that.
Russell Wagner , i agree. That fuel was exhausted quickly and the remaining fire was fueled by the contents of the buildings. Typical office stuff, not anything to bring about structural failure.
Tamisha, that is NOT a problem with my statement because neither I nor the blacksmith have said anything about the WTC collapsing or about conspiracies. He, and I, we’re only addressing the false claim that a fire from jet fuel can’t get hot enough to cause structural steel to fail.
an idiot looking for 2 minutes of fame
Dana Kerr it just seems incredible that both towers were able to collapse in such an orderly fashion, as if it was a controlled demolition. The chances are astronomically against it, especially when you factor in controlled demos that failed. 110 stories compacting without lateral movement? Laws of probability say incredibly infitesimal.
Marc Sova then why just bldg 7? There were other bldgs in that compound just as close that weren’t demo’d