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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
I should have been more specific. Apologies. What I meant essentially are the types of things illustrated by your Wikipedia quote: railroad ties, electrical conductors, welding done remotely and in open air conditions, not building construction (and yes I know buildings are "open air" sites at first).
I don't know whether or not they do, but I've never heard of it. Have you or are you just using your "common sense" to assume this kind of welding is done with building construction?
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Thermite is very common. It's used in welding. The more I read about it, the more common it's becoming. The WTC complex is a city of fifty thousand people. It's constantly under construction.
They use thermite to for telecommunications and electrical networks. I can only imagine how many hundreds of thousands of miles of wiring they had in the WTC.
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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
I wasn't talking about treating the whole set of towers like airplane investigations, just conducting an investigation, period. I'm not sure exactly how fire investigators would have conducted it, but having access to the metal to understand why and how it behaved the way it did would have been a good start.
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So now after quoting findings by the NIST, your going to tell us there wasn't an investigation. There was multiple investigations done by multiple agencies. You just refuse to believe anything they tell you.
And I love how your implying they didn't have "access to the metal". They sorted everything, conducted multiple investigations, and then... What do you expect them to do with it? Kept it until the end of time? What they do with airplane scraps after their investigation, do they keep the pieces in warehouses until the end of time?
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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
I wasn't talking about building code violation. I was referring to the NFPA fire and explosion investigation code, which is always followed.
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What building code violation?
Why do we have to have NFPA investigate? Is the NFPA a government agency? Is it required by law that NFPA investigate? How many more investigations do we need?
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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
Well, no, that is his whole point - we haven't done an investigation; and the iron and steel and other debris from the WTC started getting shipped out and disposed of immediately, before and without an investigation.
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The debris were removed off site and then reviewed and tested. Their investigation was so detailed that they had forensics experts looking for bone fragments.