What really happened on 9/11? (38)

4 Name: Citizen : 2006-05-07 06:28 ID:Heaven

Loose Change claims
"(1)The buildings simply could not have collapsed from a plane impact or burning fuel: The

melting point of normal steel is far exceeding the burn temperature of aircraft fuel, and this     
steel was not normal. (2)And even if they did melt, resulting in collapse; the building
could not then have fallen at freefall velocities, as its own resistance would have slowed it
considerably."

Scientific American rebuts
"For example, according to www.911research.wtc7.net, steel melts at a temperature of 2,777

degrees Fahrenheit, but jet fuel burns at only 1,517 degrees F. No melted steel, no collapsed
towers. "The planes did not bring those towers down; bombs did," says www.abovetopsecret.com.
Wrong. In an article in the Journal of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society and in
subsequent interviews, Thomas Eagar, an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, explains why: steel loses 50 percent of its strength at 1,200 degrees F; 90,000
liters of jet fuel ignited other combustible materials such as rugs, curtains, furniture and
paper, which continued burning after the jet fuel was exhausted, raising temperatures above
1,400 degrees F and spreading the inferno throughout each building. Temperature differentials
of hundreds of degrees across single steel horizontal trusses caused them to sag--straining and
then breaking the angle clips that held the beams to the vertical columns. Once one truss
failed, others followed. When one floor collapsed onto the next floor below, that floor
subsequently gave way, creating a pancaking effect that triggered each 500,000-ton structure to
crumble."

Here is a video of molten metal streaming out of the impact area (raw footage, no insinuating commentary) :
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2991254740145858863&q=cameraplanet+9%2F11

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