You think an explosion is going to instantly heat the structural steel to weaken it that much? It's not just temperature but heat. It's takes a lot of sustained heat. The black smoke tells you the fires were burning poorly anyway.
I don't think any such thing; there was no explosion, only a fire. It took the better part of an hour for the fires in the Twin Towers to heat soak the structure at high temperature. No great difficulty in a steel structural member soaking through to a uniform temperature. (I have been told by another disputant that the steel is such a good conductor, the heat was diluted all throughout the building. So pick your story.) Maybe the jet fuel was producing soot, but the burning aluminum would have been a different story.
Not me. I've only talked about a straight-out fire. People have said there were explosions, but they were mistakenly describing blow-outs from compressed floors. Fuel-air explosions are immense, but they are also tricky to contrive. But it is an interesting thought. I hadn't considered that the airplane fuel might have been expelled as an aerosol during the collision process. That could have made the fire more furious.
You think an explosion is going to instantly heat the structural steel to weaken it that much? It's not just temperature but heat. It's takes a lot of sustained heat. The black smoke tells you the fires were burning poorly anyway.
I don't think any such thing; there was no explosion, only a fire. It took the better part of an hour for the fires in the Twin Towers to heat soak the structure at high temperature. No great difficulty in a steel structural member soaking through to a uniform temperature. (I have been told by another disputant that the steel is such a good conductor, the heat was diluted all throughout the building. So pick your story.) Maybe the jet fuel was producing soot, but the burning aluminum would have been a different story.
I thought you were harping on fuel-air explosions.
Not me. I've only talked about a straight-out fire. People have said there were explosions, but they were mistakenly describing blow-outs from compressed floors. Fuel-air explosions are immense, but they are also tricky to contrive. But it is an interesting thought. I hadn't considered that the airplane fuel might have been expelled as an aerosol during the collision process. That could have made the fire more furious.
Not fire but SUPER FIRE!!!