In news:tokm929fo0m4d6ip8f539ctcvkhf7jujo2@4ax.com,
Widdershins <sinistre@liripipe.com> typed:

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:49:38 GMT, "Amanda Angelika"
<manic_mandy@hotmail.com> licked the point of a #2 Yellow Pencil, and
wrote:

In news:Xns97EA553D9CA9Fthathillbillyyahooco@130.133.1.4,
John Griffin <thathillbilly@yahooie.com> typed:

[...]

Taking you seriously, how thick would a coat of your "thermite
anti-corrosion paint" need to be on an inch-thick steel beam to
raise the temperature of interior of the beam by one hundredth of
a degree?  (You said something earlier about the laws of physics,
so you should enjoy figuring that out.)

I couldn't tell you the exact amount, but what tends to happen in
thermite reactions from what I've seen and read is it creates such a
high temperature that fairly small quantities once combined with
molten steel tends to burn holes clean through fairly thick steel.
One imagines it would also have a tendency to destroy welds in
overlapping joints to since molten steel and thermite would very
likely build up in those areas. Obviously that should be enough to
cause a catastrophic collapse.

I've never seen so much hand-waving and purveying of bad information.
Do you just pull this shit out of your asa just before you post?

ITEM: 1. Because of the sheer size of the building, the support
girders were *not* solid I beams. They were in a lattice pattern;
strong enough to do the job, but not solid.

I know, but they were somewhere in the region of 6 ins thick possibly more
in some places

ITEM: 2. Steel can be softened at the relatively low temperature of
1100 degrees F. or less. Thermite is not requuired. Melting is not
required. The inegrity of steel can be compromised at temperatures
well below those required to melt it, or even make it glow.

It was originally claimed in the official story that molten metal dripped
down weakening all the supports, so we are not talking localised weakening
as a result of heat because as we all know the entire buildings collapsed,
which means whatever caused that was not a localised effect since there was
(for one reason or another or a combination of factors) a catastrophic
failure of practically every support in those buildings, this is an
undeniable fact was observed by millions live on TV and is a matter of
historical record.

The thermite theory is based on the fact that jet fuel alone doesn't burn at
a high enough temperature to melt steel, so if you had molten steel dripping
down those girders as has been claimed in the official story and documented
that must have been caused by some form of secondary reaction. That doesn't
necessarily indicate thermite of course, but whatever secondary reaction
caused that obviously appears to have had an effect of monumental
proportions and of couse it does add weight to the contolled demolition
theory.
-- 
Amanda