Re: 9/11 Debate
Reply #18 –
Not really debunked @kruddler just hypothesised, there is a huge difference.
You can't ignore the basic engineering, the steel only survives for a long period of time if it's clad in concrete, but that cladding probably didn't survive the plane impact. Jet fuel isn't the only fuel in the fires, zinc and aluminium cladding burn very well as we all know from the London high-rise tragedy. Both metals, at least one of them, is a basic ingredient of thermite and that is also what contributed to the famous Zepplin fires, they were basically painted with thermite to make them hydrogen leak proof.
The steels beams/supports of the WTC were painted with a special fire / heat retardant (forget the name) making them almost 4 times more resistant for fire / heat.