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F-ES Sitecore wrote:
Flat out denying these things
Where did I do that? I simply asked if anyone here can prove the earth is not flat. So far several have responded but not one has done it. Personally, I believe the earth is round but for each "proof" you have given the flat earth people have an explanation. Not saying they are true or even defending them but you have to admit that the perceived height of a distant object or the length of shadows is not proof but a good theory. Anyway, y'all seem to be taking this too serious.
F-ES Sitecore wrote:
is going to get you labelled a troll.
Oh boo hoo. Someone on the internet misunderstood the reason for my question and now doesn't like me. What shall I ever do? :rolleyes:
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GobblesGobbles wrote:
Not saying they are true or even defending them but you have to admit that the perceived height of a distant object or the length of shadows is not proof but a good theory
That however is how all non-theoretical science works. But matter of fact theoretical science has problems as well. For instance modern geometry (pure math) proves that the the sum of the angles of a triangle is always 180 degrees in Euclidean space. But that ONLY works if one assumes that parallel lines never intersect (in Euclidean space.) If one insists that one must prove that assumption and refuse to accept the prior proof without parallel lines then it falls apart. In modern practical science one starts with the theory and then looks for discrepancies that would disprove the theory itself. In one example that I know of the flat earthers did an incorrect measurement (object over the horizon gets lower) and thus concluded that it was not round. And refused to accept that the measurement was wrong. Now they claim that the photos from space are fake, which is not a descrepency but rather a rejection of evidence and that is not how science works.
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I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but there is more than one way of looking at that. First assumption: we're talking about 9/11 and the World Trade Center attack Second assumption: structural steel melting point - 1130 degrees centigrade If you use the adiabatic flame temperature[^] of kerosene (jet fuel), it is very much hot enough to melt structural steel at 2093 degrees centigrade. The problem with using adiabatic temperatures is that it measures a closed system where no energy is lost to the environment. According to this article[^], which appears to be a reputable source, a pool-fire using gas burners reached a maximum temperature around 900 degrees centigrade at the base of the flame. Assuming that the experiment was performed using any flammable hydrocarbon, the fuel would have burn characteristics very close to jet fuel. With this evidence, it is possible to make the assumption that, in any open-air environment, jet fuel cannot burn hot enough to melt structural steel. I will not refute that high temperatures associated with an open jet fuel fire could cause the steel to weaken and eventually buckle. In my humble opinion, the whole conspiracy is about why the towers collapsed the way they did. I always found it strange that the whole towers just fell apart. It would be far more plausible that when the structural supports gave out, the top of the building would have fallen about 10 feet and would be either stopped by the rest of the building or would have slid off the remaining structure to the ground below. To me, the top 20 or so floors did not have the mass potential to do the damage they did when they fell. To wrap up, it is more likely that either the architecture was shoddy, the building materials were substandard, or it had help. I guess the ramifications from any one of those three was worse then just blaming it on fire.
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Foothill wrote:
it is more likely that either the architecture was shoddy, the building materials were substandard, or it had help. I guess the ramifications from any one of those three was worse then just blaming it on fire.
Your presumption however is full of assumptions itself which lead to a conclusion. For starters what exactly is "shoddy"? Should every building ever built be built to withstand two 747s hitting it dead on? What about 4 of them? Or 8? Should every building also be built to withstand a magnitude 10 earthquake? 11? And then there is the assumption that it wasn't sound in the first place. What if every building was built to withstand a magnitude 8 40 years ago but now the standard is 11, so then should every old building be evacuated until new buildings up to the new code be built? And how does one determine if the building is up to code in the first place? If 40 years ago the test for a magnitude 8 building worked for those buildings but now there is a new way to test it should all of the old buildings be torn down and rebuilt? Not to mention how can we be sure that the building can withstand those 8 planes in the first place. What if we fly 8 planes at the north wall and it holds up, should we then presume the south wall will hold as well? What about a corner? What about flying them at a 30 degree angle to one wall? Complexity alone guarantees that the vast number of possible eventualities cannot be accounted for and most definitely cannot be afforded. And the post analyses are nothing but conjectures but the conspiracy alternatives require a vast network of assumptions which are not supported by evidence or even the nature of humans.
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I don't think that it was an inside job. That would mean that the U.S. government was clever enough to pull it off and our government gives no such indication of being clever or organized enough to do it. Yes, with enough oxygen fire will get hot enough to melt iron but smelting requires that air be injected into the combustion area to reach those temperatures. Even blacksmiths use bellows. Steel forging requires a blast furnace. The fires in the towers were naturally aspirated. Even if you take into account the building's own ventilation systems feeding the fire, it is too much of stretch for me to say they got hot enough to melt structural steel. Weaken it, yes, melt it, no.
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Foothill wrote:
Yes, with enough oxygen fire will get hot enough to melt iron but smelting requires that air be injected
Your conjecture about what happened and how it happened (both) are incorrect. 9/11 Conspiracy Theories - Debunking the Myths - World Trade Center[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote:
any fire can be taken above that by providing enough oxygen
Let's take wood as a fuel. If you provide more oxygen, it will become hotter and the fuel will burn away quicker. You need a lot of furniture if you're going to melt steel. In most houses where there has been a fire, hoarder or not, the thinner iron pipes did not melt.
OriginalGriff wrote:
I know: it's a meme used by conspiracy theorists to insist that the Twin Towers was an inside job, rather than an attack.
Given the American history that is the most likely option, yes. Lots of inconsistencies in the news, no decent investigation, lots of rumors. But ofcourse, the government would never lie to you, now would they? :laugh:
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
In most houses where there has been a fire, hoarder or not, the thinner iron pipes did not melt.
Not sure what you are getting at but the theory of the collapse is not about "melting" but rather about "failing" which is different. The fire in the WTC was hot enough to damage the structure integrity of the building in a number of ways. Once a threshold was reached the structure failed. And the building came down.
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it is true, as a person living in Australia I can confirm that we do live upside down here! Ameizing! :omg:
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
Debate about the shape of the tassels is ongoing.
Do the tassels hang 'down'?
Of course. :) (For a suitable definition of 'down')
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
In most houses where there has been a fire, hoarder or not, the thinner iron pipes did not melt.
Not sure what you are getting at but the theory of the collapse is not about "melting" but rather about "failing" which is different. The fire in the WTC was hot enough to damage the structure integrity of the building in a number of ways. Once a threshold was reached the structure failed. And the building came down.
jschell wrote:
Not sure what you are getting at but the theory of the collapse is not about "melting" but rather about "failing" which is different.
OG was talking about melting.
jschell wrote:
And the building came down.
More buildings came down then there were planes, was it not?
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Nathan Minier wrote:
Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and beat you due to bigger experience.
FTFY
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I thought the first part was horrifying enough >.>
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Foothill wrote:
it is more likely that either the architecture was shoddy, the building materials were substandard, or it had help. I guess the ramifications from any one of those three was worse then just blaming it on fire.
Your presumption however is full of assumptions itself which lead to a conclusion. For starters what exactly is "shoddy"? Should every building ever built be built to withstand two 747s hitting it dead on? What about 4 of them? Or 8? Should every building also be built to withstand a magnitude 10 earthquake? 11? And then there is the assumption that it wasn't sound in the first place. What if every building was built to withstand a magnitude 8 40 years ago but now the standard is 11, so then should every old building be evacuated until new buildings up to the new code be built? And how does one determine if the building is up to code in the first place? If 40 years ago the test for a magnitude 8 building worked for those buildings but now there is a new way to test it should all of the old buildings be torn down and rebuilt? Not to mention how can we be sure that the building can withstand those 8 planes in the first place. What if we fly 8 planes at the north wall and it holds up, should we then presume the south wall will hold as well? What about a corner? What about flying them at a 30 degree angle to one wall? Complexity alone guarantees that the vast number of possible eventualities cannot be accounted for and most definitely cannot be afforded. And the post analyses are nothing but conjectures but the conspiracy alternatives require a vast network of assumptions which are not supported by evidence or even the nature of humans.
I really don't get what point you're trying to make. It's impossible to account for every possibility but what we can do is build better buildings. The building's construction were designed on a thin line in order to minimize construction costs. This led them to use architectural principles that were untested on structures of that size. By placing over half of the supporting steel in the outside walls, they managed to build two very large office buildings for a reduced cost. However, hindsight shows that was a grave design error. The concentration of structural supports in the outside walls and center core could be the building's undoing. When I watch the video, it is almost like the buildings are unzipped as they collapsed. A building that is unable to resist the force of a partial collapse is, IMHO, shoddy architecture. And they were Boeing 767-200's BTW, not 747's.
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Foothill wrote:
Yes, with enough oxygen fire will get hot enough to melt iron but smelting requires that air be injected
Your conjecture about what happened and how it happened (both) are incorrect. 9/11 Conspiracy Theories - Debunking the Myths - World Trade Center[^]
Your link contains these very words: FACT: Jet fuel burns at 800° to 1500°F, not hot enough to melt steel (2750°F). However, experts agree that for the towers to collapse, their steel frames didn't need to melt, they just had to lose some of their structural strength—and that required exposure to much less heat. "I have never seen melted steel in a building fire," says retired New York deputy fire chief Vincent Dunn, author of The Collapse Of Burning Buildings: A Guide To Fireground Safety. "But I've seen a lot of twisted, warped, bent and sagging steel. What happens is that the steel tries to expand at both ends, but when it can no longer expand, it sags and the surrounding concrete cracks." My original statement was counter to OG's post that people believe that fire cannot melt steel. I was making the point that in the circumstances surrounding the event, they are, in fact, correct that a fire inside a building, even when fueled by aviation kerosene, cannot get hot enough to melt the steel supports. Weaken yes, melt no. I am sorry if I am sounding a little angry but I get irritated when I present fact-based counter arguments to commonly held 9/11 beliefs and people just jump over the facts and think that I am trying to take the side of the conspiracy theorists. I don't for a minute agree with them.
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Your link contains these very words: FACT: Jet fuel burns at 800° to 1500°F, not hot enough to melt steel (2750°F). However, experts agree that for the towers to collapse, their steel frames didn't need to melt, they just had to lose some of their structural strength—and that required exposure to much less heat. "I have never seen melted steel in a building fire," says retired New York deputy fire chief Vincent Dunn, author of The Collapse Of Burning Buildings: A Guide To Fireground Safety. "But I've seen a lot of twisted, warped, bent and sagging steel. What happens is that the steel tries to expand at both ends, but when it can no longer expand, it sags and the surrounding concrete cracks." My original statement was counter to OG's post that people believe that fire cannot melt steel. I was making the point that in the circumstances surrounding the event, they are, in fact, correct that a fire inside a building, even when fueled by aviation kerosene, cannot get hot enough to melt the steel supports. Weaken yes, melt no. I am sorry if I am sounding a little angry but I get irritated when I present fact-based counter arguments to commonly held 9/11 beliefs and people just jump over the facts and think that I am trying to take the side of the conspiracy theorists. I don't for a minute agree with them.
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Foothill wrote:
I am sorry if I am sounding a little angry but I get irritated when I present fact-based counter arguments to...
This... is... THE SOAPBOX. I'll go get my coat
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jschell wrote:
Not sure what you are getting at but the theory of the collapse is not about "melting" but rather about "failing" which is different.
OG was talking about melting.
jschell wrote:
And the building came down.
More buildings came down then there were planes, was it not?
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Your link contains these very words: FACT: Jet fuel burns at 800° to 1500°F, not hot enough to melt steel (2750°F). However, experts agree that for the towers to collapse, their steel frames didn't need to melt, they just had to lose some of their structural strength—and that required exposure to much less heat. "I have never seen melted steel in a building fire," says retired New York deputy fire chief Vincent Dunn, author of The Collapse Of Burning Buildings: A Guide To Fireground Safety. "But I've seen a lot of twisted, warped, bent and sagging steel. What happens is that the steel tries to expand at both ends, but when it can no longer expand, it sags and the surrounding concrete cracks." My original statement was counter to OG's post that people believe that fire cannot melt steel. I was making the point that in the circumstances surrounding the event, they are, in fact, correct that a fire inside a building, even when fueled by aviation kerosene, cannot get hot enough to melt the steel supports. Weaken yes, melt no. I am sorry if I am sounding a little angry but I get irritated when I present fact-based counter arguments to commonly held 9/11 beliefs and people just jump over the facts and think that I am trying to take the side of the conspiracy theorists. I don't for a minute agree with them.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); } Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
Foothill wrote:
My original statement was counter to OG's post that people believe that fire cannot melt steel. I was making the point that in the circumstances surrounding the event, they are, in fact, correct that a fire inside a building, even when fueled by aviation kerosene, cannot get hot enough to melt the steel supports.
And? Arguing either for or against the melting point of steel and circumstances for it are irrelevant for for 9/11 because melting steel did not cause the failure.
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I really don't get what point you're trying to make. It's impossible to account for every possibility but what we can do is build better buildings. The building's construction were designed on a thin line in order to minimize construction costs. This led them to use architectural principles that were untested on structures of that size. By placing over half of the supporting steel in the outside walls, they managed to build two very large office buildings for a reduced cost. However, hindsight shows that was a grave design error. The concentration of structural supports in the outside walls and center core could be the building's undoing. When I watch the video, it is almost like the buildings are unzipped as they collapsed. A building that is unable to resist the force of a partial collapse is, IMHO, shoddy architecture. And they were Boeing 767-200's BTW, not 747's.
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Foothill wrote:
I really don't get what point you're trying to make. It's impossible to account for every possibility but what we can do is build better buildings.
No we cannot. Just as we cannot build better cars. One of the known factors in reducing automobile deaths is better safety equipment. The safety equipment for professional race car drivers is much more than the normal consumer and professional drivers almost always walk (literally) from crashes that would lead to deaths for consumer. So why not make consumer cars better? Simple - because it costs too much (not to mention significant inconveniences.) Same for buildings. I presume every building could be made capable of withstanding a magnitude 11 earthquake. There is no evidence that such a quake would occur but magnitude 10s have been posited so safety would suggest going higher. But again the cost is significant. And requiring code changes for buildings to survive an 11 are always subjective because of the vast number of variables that cannot be accounted for. Buildings all the time are built and problems are found with conditions that have nothing to do with extreme conditions. For example failure to account for ground stability, failure to account for wind (building sway), failure to account for impacts on local conditions (wind tunnels created by the building), etc. None of that of course even accounts for fraud, incompetence, beauracy, etc. And the world can't wait for all of that to be sorted out.
Foothill wrote:
The building's construction were designed on a thin line in order to minimize construction costs.
Do you know how construction works in general? Or even commerce in general? Businesses that want to succeed strive to reduce costs. Not to mention that many 'large' engineering projects often are based on principals that are based on testing and not practice. Bridges, building, nuclear reactors, tunnels, etc. Reality is that if one needed to wait for practical before using it then everyone would still be sleeping on the ground and eating rats raw (can't catch large prey without testing something.)
Foothill wrote:
And they were Boeing 767-200's BTW, not 747's.
And that is relevant how?
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
More buildings came down then there were planes, was it not?
Yes, because the structure integrity of those failed as well.
jschell wrote:
Yes, because the structure integrity of those failed as well.
From awe and shock? Tell me, how does structural integrity fail at the bottom in a jenga tower, if we only pick pieces from the middle? :)
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Foothill wrote:
My original statement was counter to OG's post that people believe that fire cannot melt steel. I was making the point that in the circumstances surrounding the event, they are, in fact, correct that a fire inside a building, even when fueled by aviation kerosene, cannot get hot enough to melt the steel supports.
And? Arguing either for or against the melting point of steel and circumstances for it are irrelevant for for 9/11 because melting steel did not cause the failure.
This we can agree on. However, not all people see it that way. Since there has been so little official information about the cause of the collapse, some people have sort of filled in the blanks themselves.
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Foothill wrote:
I really don't get what point you're trying to make. It's impossible to account for every possibility but what we can do is build better buildings.
No we cannot. Just as we cannot build better cars. One of the known factors in reducing automobile deaths is better safety equipment. The safety equipment for professional race car drivers is much more than the normal consumer and professional drivers almost always walk (literally) from crashes that would lead to deaths for consumer. So why not make consumer cars better? Simple - because it costs too much (not to mention significant inconveniences.) Same for buildings. I presume every building could be made capable of withstanding a magnitude 11 earthquake. There is no evidence that such a quake would occur but magnitude 10s have been posited so safety would suggest going higher. But again the cost is significant. And requiring code changes for buildings to survive an 11 are always subjective because of the vast number of variables that cannot be accounted for. Buildings all the time are built and problems are found with conditions that have nothing to do with extreme conditions. For example failure to account for ground stability, failure to account for wind (building sway), failure to account for impacts on local conditions (wind tunnels created by the building), etc. None of that of course even accounts for fraud, incompetence, beauracy, etc. And the world can't wait for all of that to be sorted out.
Foothill wrote:
The building's construction were designed on a thin line in order to minimize construction costs.
Do you know how construction works in general? Or even commerce in general? Businesses that want to succeed strive to reduce costs. Not to mention that many 'large' engineering projects often are based on principals that are based on testing and not practice. Bridges, building, nuclear reactors, tunnels, etc. Reality is that if one needed to wait for practical before using it then everyone would still be sleeping on the ground and eating rats raw (can't catch large prey without testing something.)
Foothill wrote:
And they were Boeing 767-200's BTW, not 747's.
And that is relevant how?
The point I am trying to make that the buildings' architectural design was doomed to failure from inception. The failure is in the tube/core design because once a critical structural failure starts anywhere the entire structure collapses. Any large fire spanning more than three floors could have caused a total collapse. I am saying that their collapse was inevitable. Other standard high-rise designs would fair much better as we have witnessed. I can't remember where but there was a fire in China where an entire 40+ story building was entirely on fire but when the fire died out, the steel structure was still there. If the builders had gone with a more tried and true design, we would still have the original Twin Towers. It would have take years to repair the damage but they would still be there. The psychological impact of that day would not have been as poignant and the people of the U.S. might not have been so keen on lashing out at other countries.
jschell wrote:
Foothill wrote:
And they were Boeing 767-200's BTW, not 747's.
And that is relevant how?
A Boeing 747 is much more massive than a 767. I would think that if one hit the World Trade Center, it would have cut the building in half causing an immediate collapse therefore, as a society, this debate over what caused their collapse wouldn't be taking place; but that is just conjecture.
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This we can agree on. However, not all people see it that way. Since there has been so little official information about the cause of the collapse, some people have sort of filled in the blanks themselves.
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jschell wrote:
Yes, because the structure integrity of those failed as well.
From awe and shock? Tell me, how does structural integrity fail at the bottom in a jenga tower, if we only pick pieces from the middle? :)
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Foothill wrote:
Since there has been so little official information about the cause of the collapse,
NIST produced quite a bit of official analysis of the collapse.
True, but most people are not going to take the time to read an almost 300 page report containing a lot of industry-specific language that they don't understand.
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