Where's the explanation for this? - Democratic Underground

mrgerbik

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Sun May-14-06 03:04 PM
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Where's the explanation for this?

I still haven't heard much of an explanation for this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2991254740145858863&q=cameraplanet%2B9/11

It's somewhat central to Prof. Jones' thesis, so why not debate it? (Sorry if this has been posted before).

1) It is not molten aluminum. Molten aluminum appears silver/grey in daylight.
2) The fires according to NIST were not hot enough to melt steel, so molten building steel is out of the question.
3) The phenomenon occurs just before collapse.

The only probable explanation is thermite. It's appearance fits in perfectly with the video observations.

Thermite:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7231843493488769585&q=thermite&pl=true

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mirandapriestly

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Mon May-15-06 04:26 AM
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1. Either that or some guy

is up there with a cutting torch. An Al Qaeda suicide steel cutter? New theory!

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lightbulb

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Mon May-15-06 11:54 AM
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2. That's a LOT of molten metal

For perspective, a person can easily stand between the light colored aluminum facade panels with room on either side. Also worthy of note is that it's pouring from the section where flight 175 debris exited the tower after traveling near the building's core. Could something that was only supposed to affect the core columns (out of public view) have been pushed to the exterior by the crash?

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mrgerbik

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Mon May-15-06 06:31 PM
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9. that sounds very plausible... n/t

Edited on Mon May-15-06 06:32 PM by mrgerbik

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mirandapriestly

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Tue May-16-06 01:32 AM
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11. hmm, that's an interesting thought

because otherwise we would have seen this all over or at least more regularly placed.

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WoodrowFan

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Mon May-15-06 01:45 PM
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3. why explain what didn't exist?

Edited on Mon May-15-06 01:48 PM by WoodrowFan

it looks as if the liquid "molten" metal may be yet another MIHOPer myth..

And why would explosives cause "molten" metal, but fires wouldn't??

http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc_molten_steel.html

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lightbulb

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Mon May-15-06 02:27 PM
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4. Did the first post not exist?

Edited on Mon May-15-06 02:27 PM by lightbulb

The link you provided only discusses reports of molten metal in the debris, not the stuff we can see pouring out of the tower before the collapse. And thermite isn't an explosive, it's an incendiary mixture of fine aluminum powder with a metallic oxide used in welding and some types of demolition.

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WoodrowFan

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Mon May-15-06 03:24 PM
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6. my bad

Edited on Mon May-15-06 03:28 PM by WoodrowFan

my bad. I assumed this was another "molten liquid steel in the basement" nonsense that has bene posted here over and over again.. I'll let the engineers here answer the question about his video clip..,

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mrgerbik

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Mon May-15-06 09:50 PM
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10. What do YOU think? n/t

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mrgerbik

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Mon May-15-06 06:29 PM
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8. deleted my bad...

Edited on Mon May-15-06 06:31 PM by mrgerbik

replied to wrong post

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boastOne43

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Mon May-15-06 02:39 PM
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5. thermite is not an explosive

thermite is not an explosive. thermite charges act as cutting agents. the towers show evidence of BOTH being used to bring them down.

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mrgerbik

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Mon May-15-06 04:54 PM
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7. because...

a thermite reaction produces molten iron. ...

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mirandapriestly

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Tue May-16-06 01:42 AM
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12. You need to learn about what you are debunking.

Thermite is just iron oxide and aluminum powder which cause a super hot reaction when heated that cuts easily through steel (like butter, in fact). It explains the high temperatures that would have to be not only reached but maintained in the steel itself. It is added to shaped charges which may also contain explosives but it is not an "explosive" and that site 911 myths doesn't understand it. It is a "straw man" site which disproves theories which are easily disproved because they are inaccurate or very minor and only believed by a few.

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