Ha! no, payne, your story has always been that the 30 floors and the 15 floors could not collapse from the damage done by the airliners or the small, random short duration fires. My position has always been that the extreme damage from aircraft impacts and HUGE FUKING FIRES caused the towers to collapse.
As you have proven time and again, you are totally ignorant of the laws of science and the nature of fire. Particularly, uncontrolled, unmanageable, unchecked fire.
Here's the thing about fire, payne, the vast majority of people on this planet are familiar with, experienced with, and enjoy the benefits of fire and heat when under control and manageable. Striking a match, flicking a Bic, heating their homes, cooking their food, firing up a backyard grill, burning leaves and trash, getting a campfire going, and so on. Their knowledge of and experience with fire and heat is limited to the friendly aspects of it. You are one of these people.
And, some percentage of those lacking knowledge of the dangers of uncontrolled fire have felt the terrible sting of fire and heat when it gets out of control, whether it be the loss of property, painful injury, or death.
There are far fewer people on this planet who are educated in fire science, who are trained, equipped and experienced in dealing with and combatting uncontrolled fires. These are the fire engineers and fire fighters. You are not among them.
"Fire" is, in many respects, a generic term that means anything from discharging a firearm to logs burning in a fireplace to the fire in a burning building. Fire is in fact a chemical reaction known as combustion, it is the combination of heat, fuel and oxygen. Flames and smoke are byproducts of combustion. IOW, heat and fire are two different things. Combustion can occur without producing flame. Just because no flame is visible doesn't mean combustion is not taking place.
In a building fire, searing hot gas, not flame and smoke, can whistle through a crack as thin as a sheet of paper, it can slip under a door, blow through a key hole, charge up inside a wall, burning insulation, melting electrical wire, switches and outlets, it can boil water in metal pipes, turn it to steam, cause the pipes to burst. it can blast through AC and heating ducts where it will burst into another part of the building and the fire spreads.
Organic compounds, such as wood, paper, plastics, and fabrics, all contain oxygen molecules which can complete the "fire triangle --heat, fuel and oxygen--and undergo combustion without an outside source of oxygen and without producing flames.
In a closed room without ventilation, a couch, chair, or bed can smoulder for hours without a whif of air or producing a lick of flame. Hot gas, smoke, and combustion particles rise to the ceiling, cool and descend to be heated and rise again, creating a circulation of increasingly hotter gases and particles. Temperatures inside the room can reach 1800F to 2000F, door knobs get red hot, light metals in the room melt and plastics become liquid. Flashover conditions have developed, all the beast needs is a breath of air. An alert firefighter can see the signs without ever breaching the room. The thing in the room breaths, smoke and hot gas puffs out under the door or other small crack and is drawn back in again. Open the door and it will suck in a huge gust of air and explode.
Conditions inside a burning building are extremely dangerous, the uncertainty factor is very high, no firefighter knows going in what can possibly happen, how the fire will behave. This is what we train for every day we are on duty. This is why we gear up with the best protective clothing and equipment the city budget can afford.
The fires in the twin towers were huge, payne, they were spread over dozens of acres of floors containing thousands of tons of organic combustibles. It is entirely possible that flashover conditions could have developed in the closed spaces within the core area. Temps in there could have easily reached 1800F to 2000F. And, the core area is where the core columns were located.
It is little wonder that a woman trapped on the 103rd floor in the North Tower screamed in fear to the dispatcher on the phone that it was very hot in there, that they were "burning up."
We must ask also why a commodities trader and his assistant were trapped in their office on the 86th floor of the North Tower, 8 floors below the lowest floor in the impact zone. Why did this man get on the phone to a NYC TV station and tell the world that they were trapped, that they couldn't open the door, that debris had blocked it, that debris was all around them, that smoke was coming in from the hallway, that debris was falling upon and around them, and that part of the core had been blown out. Fear on the 86th Floor
Fire Engineering: WORLD TRADE CENTER DISASTER: INITIAL RESPONSE
At no time in world history has a fire department ever been called on to respond to a single incident of such magnitude as the attack on the World Trade Center.
You've got your ridiculous, unbelievable little theories about 9/11, none of which you are able to justify with any sort of reason, experience, knowledge or critical thought. Stick with them, payne, but don't pretend that you can accurately determine the fire situation in the twin towers by looking at a picture.
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