From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 23:08:41 MDT
On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 08:08 PM, spike66 wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
>>> Energy should come out in ft-lbs, and one foot-pound apparently
>>> is 1.356 joules (I looked it up---my failure to work this out
>>> from first principles is humiliating). So if you are correct,
>>> then this translates to 1.07 x 10^13 joules, no?
>> I misstated the units, which should be ft-lbs^2/sec^2. Foot-lbs are a
>> measure of torque, with no time component.
>
> Foot pounds can be a unit of energy too, since it is
> a force times a distance. But do spare us the archaic
> units, all of you, and state energy in terms of joules,
> or newton meters.
>
> spike
>
>
That energy isn't converted to heat. Steel mills used to have to use
forced oxygen burning coke to get enough heat to melt steel, a blast
furnace. The WTC floors were separated from each other. Jet fuel burns
at about 600 or 700 degrees Fahrenheit, about 350 C, steel melts at
around 2700 degrees Fahrenheit, about 1500 C, 1773 Kelvins. It is
obvious that some sources claim the jet fuel melted the steel supports,
others don't.
Firefighters and policeman there that day reported multiple explosions.
A bunch of them in the buildings with the smoldering remains of fires
died when the buildings fell on them.
Pilots got together and said the pilots were definite experts. One
plane hit a tower in the center, the other plane hit the edge of the
other tower. The main structural supports were in the center. The
second tower hit fell first, where most of the jet fuel exploded outside
that one.
Watch the video of a tower falling, see the floors pulverize before the
roof falls in near free-fall. Compare the video to a building being
demolished, it looks very much the same. The building is heavy, it is
inclined by gravity to go down and not left or right.
It was blamed on bin Laden well before the alleged hijacker's passports
were "found" at the Pentagon and down the street from the WTC, they're
apparently tougher than flight data recorders.
The seismographs don't just report the buildings falling, but also a
large detonation.
The WTC destruction was a huge crime. It was a criminal act of
unheralded proportions. If a state was behind it then it would be an
act of war. In investigating a crime a question is of motive and thus
who stood to gain...
We could reconstruct the occurences upon the building materials but they
appear to have been "sold for scrap" and shipped overseas.
Death to terrorists.
Ross
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