Reply #26: "Dan Daley never said jet fuel alone brought down the towers. " [View All]

[petgoat]

The Dan Daley quote (6:49 to 7:03) mentions nothing but jet fuel, but that's not the point.
The point is he said 10,000 gals of jet fuel was in the building. Most of the jet fuel burned
up outside in the fireball. NIST says the jet fuel burned off in ten minutes.

There is no evidence, except for the fact that the building collapsed, that the fire burned
hot enough to weaken the steel.

To conclude that it did is like concluding that a man who was beaten to death with a
hammer must have committed suicide.

Your high-voltage flashes are imaginative, but think about it: The electrical cabinets would have
had to have been open, and the doors facing the windows. The lower floors were undamaged, the wires
were in conduits. You're thinking about Star Trek or old submarine movies with your arcing electrics.

The news reports of official statements were of secondary explosions. You would expect responsible
people in FDNY to know to couch their reports in terms of "a loud sound, a crack, a boom that could
have been floors crashing or structure popping or an explosion." The reports were of explosions.

Assuming the 911eyewitness tape is the real thing, I have a hard time believing those thunderous
sounds detected all the way across the river (and which much preceded the collapse) are falling floors
or popping rivets.

It's like saying you can't cook a steak in a grill because the lighter fluid burns to quickly
while leaving out the charcoal as a factor.

Ah, the "burned steaks brought down the towers" straw man. Actually I'm saying you can't make a
grill suffer total progressive collapse simply by pouring lighter fluid on some scraps of particle
board, carpeting, and telephone.