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http://www.nistreview.org/WTC-ASTANEH.pdfOriginally posted by: event8horizon
tell me the truth in this observation. an engineer actually forensically investigating the wtc 7 debris.
"One piece Dr. Astaneh-Asl saw was a charred horizontal I-beam from 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed from fire eight hours after the attacks. The beam, so named because its cross-section looks like a capital I, had clearly endured searing temperatures. Parts of the flat top of the I, once five-eighths of an inch thick, had vaporized.
Less clear was whether the beam had been charred after the collapse, as it lay in the pile of burning rubble, or whether it had been engulfed in the fire that led to the building's collapse, which would provide a more telling clue.
The answer lay in the beam's twisted shape. As weight pushed down, the center portion had buckled outward.
''This tells me it buckled while it was attached to the column,'' not as it fell, Dr. Astaneh-Asl said, adding, ''It had burned first, then buckled.''
remember, this was only 8 dyas after the attack. 15.9 mm of a36 steel gone.
and dr astaneh also said:
ABOLHASSAN ASTANEH: Here, it most likely reached about 1,000 to 1,500 degrees. And that is enough to collapse them, so they collapsed. So the word "melting" should not be used for girders, because there was no melting of girders. I saw melting of girders in World Trade Center.
The fact is that Mr. Astaneh-Asl concluded that the impacts and fires brought down the towers. He actually concluded later that it was because of a faulty design and never himself suggests that it was a demolition or that thermite was used. So why do you cite an expert yet ignore his conclusions?
Yours is a perfect example of how truthers glom on to one statement and try to blow it up into a huge conspiracy. That is their version of what the "truth" consists of. Fuck the forest and the trees. Focus on that one little leaf instead.