Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Lunarray said: BeauJangles,
Assume that the statements of anyone are evidence. I think to say one can't tell molten steel from molten iron assumes facts not in evidence. You'd have to show that he was not able to make the claim with any authority. Not as an expert cuz lab tests are the best expert on that issue. AND, exactly what someone who'd seek to debunk should use. So... if I were a juror and you could not or did not disprove by testing the nature of the molten stuff and told me I should reject his statement cuz he may not know... I'd say I'll accept it cuz you didn't test it... the proof is in the best evidence and you didn't provide it to debunk his testimony. [not you but the folks who could have settled the issue]
What really is a problem as I see it is the absence of testing for Thermite/Thermate. That is the very first thing protocol indicates you test for in a crime scene fire investigation. But it was not tested for here? Not in anything I've read thus far, anyhow.
Like someone else said, we should have also tested the ground for the presence of Gremlins who could have chewed through the beams. There was and still remains no evidence of thermite being responsible for the fall of the WTC. As others have said, the byproducts of a thermite reaction at ground zero wouldn't be surprising and to that end, the USGS did a survey of the site and found the following elements:
Silicon, Calcium, Magnesium, Sulfur, Iron, Aluminum, Carbon (organic and carbonate), Sodium, Potassium, Titanium, Manganese, and Phosphorus. Four of these are flagged by Professor Jones as possible indicators for thermate (Sulfur, Potassium, Titanium, Manganese), yet the authors of this study don?t seem to require any special explanations for them at all.
According to the same study, these were found in levels consistent with their presence within the materials that made up the building.
As for your previous point, it IS evidence, but considering there is plenty of evidence to the contrary and that there is no way a fire fighter can tell the difference between a molten steel and another metallic substance, it is highly improbable that he is correct. He can't make the claim with any authority because firefighters aren't taught to identify molten substances. What you're doing is letting an eye-witness (who are notoriously inaccurate in even recounting the details of what happened to events that unfolded in front of their eyes) color your judgement.
He says one thing. Great. There is zero evidence to support it. So what do we do? Do we throw out all the science, the expert analysis, and the science involved and simply believe that firefighter Joe Blow, in the heat of the moment observed melted steel? No, we realize that, like his comment about lava, he saw something (metallic melted substance) and ASSUMED it was steel. It wasn't. It's a mistake anyone could make, but it doesn't prove anything and is pretty worthless as a piece of "evidence" that the official story is not correct.