Sailtoo

First off, we heard you the first time.

"Any science teacher, architect, structural engineer, welder & metalegist would know that structural steel will not be weakened to even near failure by burning jet fuel,"

and your evidence for this is what exactly? I did not day the fuel did not burn/flame. It was the steel that didn;t melt or burn. What I was trying to say was, tempertures higher than 4,000 degree would have been required to cause the steel to soften to the point of separation. Separation at each and every rivited connection of structural steel over an inch thick at the web and 3 inches thick at the flanges. Such melting would have had to happen at every floor, even the floors that were not on fire. Anyone thought to ask UL, ASTM or BOCA?

 

I have personally worked steel by heating it to red hot. If the flames from the jet fuel were not at least red hot they would not have been visible.

People report seeing flames (and the video supports this). Of course flames were seen, fuel was burning NOT steel, NOT concrete.The flames were clearly hot enough to soften steel.What I find most disturbing is eyewitness reports that explosions were heard before the first plane hit ... shivers. Makes one wonder, what else the government lied about; the Kennedy assasssination, Pearl Harbor, were we really asleep at the radio or did we just want to get into the War? Where does it stop?

I suspect most American suspect that the WTC collapse was a implosion ignited in part at least by the jetfuel but most don't care. They thought the end result would be cheap oil and here we are paying $4.00 a gallon 10 years and hundreds of billion of dollars and thousands of our SONS later.

"you will not be able to miss the key factor on making steel melt ... time time time!"

 

Bollocks.

The melting point of water is zero degrees C, hotter and it melts, colder and it freezes. Time doesn't enter into it. The same is true for steel.

I can burn steel in seconds with a candle flame as long as the steel is thin.

"They are bright red but still not hot enough to melt."

No, but they are soft enough to roll into shape. That's the point. Did you think they heated the stuff to red heat because they liked the colour?

 

"If it could be meakened or melted by jet fuel, how could it be used to power the jet engines"

Because the structural parts of jet engines that take the brunt of the flame are not made of steel but from so called super-alloys. Even then they need to be cooled to stop them melting.

These materials are very expensive so they don't build skyscrapers out of them.

 

You may have a point about poor standards of education, but you seem to be looking in the wrong direction.