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Originally Posted by Tempest
When you have a set opinion it's easy to poke holes in something else but that doesn't mean it didn't happen in some way... No one knows what what going on in there and there's lots of possibilities... The one thing the video proves is that the entire 'laws of physics" argument is invalid since it shows that steel will weaken at temperatures far below it's melting point ie 2000F vs 2600F and that it only takes a few minutes for a collapse to occur at those temperatures.
Here's the great thing about science and the laws of physics.. They apply to specific circumstances.. Once you add in a bunch of variables, unless there is some specific science that also takes into account those variables, you can't point to those laws of physics as proof of anything anymore. All scientific "laws/facts" are only valid with todays knowledge. Tomorrow they could change.
As for the FEMA/NIST thing.. Cherry picking what to believe in their reports and what not to believe is just weak IMO... As I've said before, no one knows what happened in there and no one can ever prove one theory over another. Unless some definitive smoking gun is uncovered, this will forever remain a controversy.
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This might just be the best explanation I've ever read.
You can take all of the scientific aspects out of it because unless applied to those exact circumstances, it's pointless. We can never recreate the exact environment tha this happened in. This wasn't your typical three story building that caught fire. This was one of the tallest buildings in the world.
There are just way too many variables.
In simple terms, enough damage was done to that building from the plane itself and the resulting fire to cause one floor to pancake into another. Plan and simple.