Comment Re: Paranoia (Score 1) 155
To say that burning jet fuel can't melt steel, and therefore some conspiracy is afoot, is to advertise that you don't have the ability to discern real information from bullshit.
Any idiot can look up "structural steel temperature" and find tons of results on engineering specific sites describing what happens to steel at elevated temperatures. That idiot would then be able to read words to the effect that steel's yield strength drops by half around 1000Â F, and drops by around two thirds at 1100Â F.
Accepting that fact in conjunction with the fact that jet fuel burns much hotter than 1000Â F, and the fact that no engineer ever has designed a building to resist the impact of a passenger jet, and the reasonable conclusion that a building with structural member strength reduced by greater than 70Â isn't likely to be standing for very long would cause in that idiot's brain a transition from idiot to not as much of an idiot.
Any idiot can look up "structural steel temperature" and find tons of results on engineering specific sites describing what happens to steel at elevated temperatures. That idiot would then be able to read words to the effect that steel's yield strength drops by half around 1000Â F, and drops by around two thirds at 1100Â F.
Accepting that fact in conjunction with the fact that jet fuel burns much hotter than 1000Â F, and the fact that no engineer ever has designed a building to resist the impact of a passenger jet, and the reasonable conclusion that a building with structural member strength reduced by greater than 70Â isn't likely to be standing for very long would cause in that idiot's brain a transition from idiot to not as much of an idiot.