Fire doesn’t melt steel, right?
Yea but remember all those planes have those tanks to produce chemtrails to keep the sheeple stupid and who knows how hot those chemicals burn.
My mechanical engineering curriculum didn't cover the non-fire technology for melting steel. Must be a shortcoming of Texas A&M College of Engineering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_neckties
"Sherman's neckties were a phenomenon of the American Civil War. Named after Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army, Sherman's neckties were railway rails 'destroyed by heating them until they were malleable' and twisting them into loops resembling neckties, often around trees".
Actually what people don’t really get is that the steel never had to melt. It only had to reach the softening point which is a lot lower temperature than the melting point. The truth is that jet fuel will not get you to the melting point without some work. However it won’t have any trouble getting to the softening point. Once you hit that the structural members are more like silly putty than I beams.
I once had this discussion with a wingnut who believed it was an inside job. The fact that I have a PhD in steelmaking didn’t seem to phase him at all.
“Fire doesn’t melt steel, right?”
No. And if that makes you wonder what people do at steel mills all day, well, they melt it with the power of love.
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I always wanted to asked Rosie if she thought steel gets dug out of the ground in that shape or if they grow them that way.
Your reference, of course, is to that famous physicist Rosie O'Donnell. Here, for the amusement of those who didn't appreciate your subtle joke, are the brilliant words of Rosie herself talking about the collapse of the WTC buildings.
Recently, Rosie O’Donnell, a co-host of ABC talk show The View, made comments on the show that renewed controversy over the collapse of World Trade Center 7.
While saying she didn’t know what to believe about the U.S. government’s involvement in the attacks of Sept. 11, she said, “I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7—building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes—7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.”
She continued: “To say that we don’t know that it imploded, that it was an implosion and a demolition, is beyond ignorant. Look at the films, get a physics expert here [on the show] from Yale, from Harvard, pick the school—[the collapse] defies reason.”
It depends on how hot the fire is. 1100 degree F will sure weaken steel.
“Fire doesn’t melt steel, right?”
Last week I was heating some 5/8” cold roll steel rods with a torch and bending them into a U shape for a project. My little boy came by to watch and said, Wow, you’re Superman! So naturally, I let him bend the next one by himself.