07-13-2006, 03:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-13-2006, 03:50 AM by Rhydderch Hael.)
Quote:I'm sure the designers did a fine job, especially for such important buildings, and apparently so do the folks who run that site. They feel the skyscrapers would still be standing today, albiet undergoing repairs, if something "extra" hadn't taken place that so completely pulverized the buildings. They claim that the damage caused by the planes and the fire caused by the jet fuel wasn't enough to cause such a quick and total collapse. ...Is this the argument that an uncontrolled (that to mean, less-than-optimal-efficiency) burn of jet fuel isn't hot enough to reach the melting point of the steel used in the WTC's support system?
Blacksmiths, for example, don't forge steel objects by pouring them into a mold. You don't need to melt steel in order to bend it. You can soften it at temps well below the melt point.
And there's a reason why jet engines run through the combustion chamber a boundary flow of cooler, unburned air that surrounds the core flow of energized air: to serve as an insulation layer that prevents the continual presence of a burning fuel-air mixture from melting the walls of the combustion chamber.
Political Correctness is the idea that you can foster tolerance in a diverse world through the intolerance of anything that strays from a clinical standard.