The Shuttle's Achilles Heel: Ideology

TheFactIs.org ^ | Aug. 1, 2005 | Duncan Maxwell Anderson

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You have no clue as to the fireproofing of asbestos.

Were the individual structural elements thermally isolated (i.e. was there insulation between them?) Or were they joined together with the insulation applied over the resulting structure?

If you have a piece of metal wrapped in asbestos except for a small part which is exposed, and you put the thing into an inferno, no matter how good the insulation is in the spots where it exists, the metal will reach thermal equilibrium at the temperature of the inferno. It's not necessary for heat to go through the insulation--it merely has to go through the hole and then through the metal, and it can do both of those things comparatively easily.

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Check these out:

Fireproofing Faulted in Trade Center Collapse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A38699-2002Jun24&notFound=true

Viewing Twenty-First Century America From Ground Zero
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/miller4.html

At a hearing held by the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently a panel of architects and engineers presented their findings on why the towers collapsed. The panel said that the fires caused the towers to collapse, not the structural damage done to them by the impact of the planes. They noted that insulation of the load-bearing steel columns in each tower at the sites of impact was done with a non-asbestos fire-retardant; and they concluded, "The insulation is going to turn out to be the root cause" of the towers’ (premature) collapse.

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More asbestos info

Litigation and Junk Science (Asbestos ban) brought down WTC
http://www.sitewave.net/ddp/wtc.htm