Comments on: Steel and Concrete -vs- Fire http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/05/01/steel-and-concrete-vs-fire/ The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Larry Grimm http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/05/01/steel-and-concrete-vs-fire/#comment-319 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:38:40 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/steel-and-concrete-vs-fire/#comment-319 NIST thoroughly studied the remains. Their conclusion is very clear and a marvelous example of reconstructing an accident: The disintegrating plane fragments stripped the steel’s insulation. The fire did not get hot enough to melt the steel, but it did weaken it. In conjunction with the stresses resulting from severed steel beams, the heat-weakened steel finally gave way. The resulting gravitational pull on the large upper section and the large mass of this section were too much for the lower sections to withstand. -lg

]]> By: David Walton http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/05/01/steel-and-concrete-vs-fire/#comment-318 Fri, 04 May 2007 20:53:24 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/steel-and-concrete-vs-fire/#comment-318 I have always found it astounding and deplorably twisted that some folks can so easily believe their own government is capable of the most heinous, complex, and improbable of deeds while at the same time refusing to recognize the acute danger of terrorist acts as plotted, executed, and avowed (if not bragged about) by Islamo-fascist and other warfare-by-terror groups.

The “Tin Foil Hat” crowd is, imho, comprised of extremely deranged individuals — including the ridiculous and despicably ignorant Rosie O’Donnell.

]]> By: Ron Acevedo http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/05/01/steel-and-concrete-vs-fire/#comment-317 Thu, 03 May 2007 19:36:37 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/steel-and-concrete-vs-fire/#comment-317 There are a couple issues here. One is the poor conception Americans have of science in general. The other is the pure absurdity of conspiring to load up a building with explosives AND arrange for aircraft to crash into them. American gullibility and susceptibility to hype is the main story.
This relates to your other blog concerning the decline of newspapers. Americans want their knowledge spoon fed. Reading a newspaper is too much trouble, besides “my psychic says” the same guys who blew up the Trade Towers, mined the New Orleans levees. Aliens or Leprachauns I think.

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