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Originally Posted by Rochard
From Wikipedia:
Thermite may be used for repair by the welding in-place of thick steel sections such as locomotive axle-frames where the repair can take place without removing the part from its installed location.
Thermite can be used for quickly cutting or welding steel such as rail tracks, without requiring complex or heavy equipment. However, defects such as slag inclusions and voids (holes) are often present in such welded junctions and great care is needed to operate the process successfully. Care must also be taken to ensure that the rails remain straight, without resulting in dipped joints, which can cause wear on high speed and heavy axle load lines.
Copper thermite is used for welding together thick copper wires for the purpose of electrical connections. It is used extensively by the electrical utilities and telecommunications industries (exothermic welded connections).
Now on top of this, we find out that it's used by "electrical utilities and telecommunications industries". How many mires of electrical wires and telecommunications cables was in the towers, keeping mind this is a city of fifty thousand people?
You keep doing this - pretending that it's impossible to find a certain chemical but the truth is these chemicals are pretty common.
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I don't think I claimed it was impossible... and your wikipedia quote re-enforces my statement that thermite welding is performed in large, industrial steel and eletrical conduit conditions, not inside, and doesn't in any way confirm your claim that it's "common sense" that thermite was used in the construction of the WTC - although that's not impossible, and I reiterate that the levels of types of thermite and thermate should not be in a normal office/building fire.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Now your getting into nonsense. They should have kept evidence. Um, where? Where in the world are they going to keep billions and billions of tons of evidence?
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First, your "billions" is ridiculous. Second, all crashed airliners have had their parts collected and reassembled under warehouse conditions to help their investigation.
Before shipping off the girders and wreckage of the buildings, they should have had a fire engineer forensics team in there after which any and all tagged parts and then some would have been carted off to warehouses and other guarded lab environments for closer scrutiny.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Your also saying that "investigation protecols demand" that they look for accelerants, etc... And I disagree with you. When you have it on video tape that a plane with ten thousand gallons of jet fuel rams into a building, I'm guessing they knew the cause the fires without having to guess. I'm just saying.
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Well it pissed off quite a few potential investigators, from FEMA, who were allowed a "tourist trip" hands-off tour of the pit, to qualified fire and other forensics engineers who had never seen a violation of NFPA code before. This included the Association of Fire Investigators and the International Arson Investigators.
Violation or negligent misapplication of the code is punishable by grievous fines, imprisonment or both depending on the severity of the offense.
The editor of Fire Engineering magazine weighed in with his opinion:
http://www.fireengineering.com/artic...stigation.html