Posted on 12/17/2015 10:33:35 AM PST by PROCON
Give this man a medal. In just two minutes, blacksmith Trenton Tye of Purgatory Ironworks uses science to hilarious effect to mock 9/11 truthers who insist the 2001 terrorist attacks were a conspiracy. And why are these nutters convinced the whole thing was an inside job? Because fire can’t melt steel (Seriously, read through that entire 9/11 conspiracy theory thread. It is amazing.)
Tye, a professional metalworker based in Georgia, has had enough. He filmed the following video to prove to science-hating 9/11 conspiracy mongers once and for all that structural steel will absolutely lose its structural integrity if it gets too hot:
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Bkmrk.
This will be fun to see what comes crawling out of the woodwork!
We had a pinhead at work that didn’t understand this too.We all tried to explain to him,but his mind couldn’t or wouldn’t grasp the concept.
Heck yeah, I’m snowed in and bored :-)
The day of or the day after, Freerepublic had someone on this site explaining how it got hot enough inside the building to melt the steel and someone also explained why the pancaking of all that concrete destroyed the lower floors ability to hold the up causing the whole tower to come down both times.
He must have put some thermite inside his forge.
I find that 9/11 Truthers are much more likely to be moonwalk deniers and even holocaust deniers.
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Then how come my barbecue doesn’t get white hot and melt down like that? And how can a kitchen fire cause wtc 7 to fall straight down?
“Then how come my barbecue doesn’t get white hot and melt down like that? And how can a kitchen fire cause wtc 7 to fall straight down?”
Did you ever take a basic high school shop class?
Anyone with a very basic exposure to metal or welding; knows that steel is weakened as it is heated. That is how blacksmiths forge and shape metal objects.
I think "they" knew he was going to make this video and they snuck the thermite in while he was taking a leak.
Re: “pancaking”
Stand up.
Not hard, eh? you can stand there all day long.
Now go climb a tree, and from 10+ feet up - jump.
And land, straight vertical, legs fully extended.
Doesn’t go so well, eh?
Imagine a building standing. It can stand there all day long.
Now take out the support verticals for one floor about 3/4 up, about 10+ feet worth.
And expect both the upper and lower floors to stay completely vertical & intact as what was the ceiling impacts what was the floor.
Doesn’t go so well, eh?
Because your barbecue is
- made to sink & radiate heat
- isn’t supporting your car on top of it.
Gravity destroyed the towers. But you’ll never get him to talk.
People don’t often realize this but wood timber construction can be safer in a fire than steel beam construction because wood chars on the outside, turning to carbon in the extreme, but that layer of char protects the interior and leaves appreciable amounts of a beam’s strength intact till well after a nominally comparable strength, or even much stronger, steel beam would soften and fail in the same fire.
You don’t have to heat up steel that much to seriously weaken it.
Please note: wood “timber” ... not white pine 2x4s that are only 1.5” x 3.5” in actual dimension like too many houses are built of today. Timber implies something more substantial than mere sticks of sometimes cheap wood ... so don’t imagine that I’m saying anything in praise of the latter. Thanks.
He is right by the way. Actually wood as better load carrying strength in a fire then steel does.
“We had a pinhead at work that didn’t understand this too.We all tried to explain to him,but his mind couldn’t or wouldn’t grasp the concept.”
“A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
There will always be a core of thick-skulled morons who want to believe in the 9/11 government conspiracy. But these debunking examples can help prevent would-be Truthers from being created.
Because your BBQ only gets to about 700 degrees, max., whereas jet fuel burns at somewhere between 800 - 1500 degrees. Structural steel loses about 50% of its strength at 1100 degrees. Oh, and your BBQ doesn’t have to hold up anything other than itself - the structural steel in the WTC had a rather different job.
Plus, once the first floor to collapse did so, suddenly the floor that was right below it weighed at least twice as much - and the steel and concrete wasn’t designed to handle that...leading it to collapse onto the floor below, etc. That was the pancaking effect that we all saw. Your BBQ doesn’t have 110 BBQs on top of it, that’s why it is just fine doing what it does, which is just sitting there and containing most of the heat and flames.
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