THE 'ROSE' KNOWS
“Renowned metallurgist Rosie O’Donnell proclaimed on TV last Thursday that Sept. 11, 2001, was a more significant date than most of us realized. It was, in her words, ‘the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.’ This, of course, came as news to steelworkers, blacksmiths, firefighters, manufacturers of samurai swords, and other fools who hadn’t realized that steel is forged in magic furnaces using dragon breath and pixie dust...O’Donnell focused on World Trade Center Building 7, which has become the grassy knoll for 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Asked if the government was responsible for its collapse, she coyly replied that she didn’t know. All she knows is that it’s ‘impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved’ and that, for the ‘first time in history, steel was melted by fire.’ Wink, wink. For the record, fire can melt steel, and buildings also collapse when heat weakens steel. But that misses the point. The point is we shouldn’t have to argue with crazy people. Regardless, it appears that not even the heat of ridicule can weaken O’Donnell’s steely resolve to make an idiot of herself.” — Jonah Goldberg
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Obviously fire can melt steel of the buildings of the WTC complex. -- But not just at any temperature, and NOT at the temperature at which jet fuel burns. After the jet fuel fire got started in the two jet-struck towers, it would have to have found enough other fuel of a different kind to quickly heat enough of the steel structure to cause the incredible manner in which it fell -- almost a free-fall. It would be an interesting experiment to see if this can be replicated. And with buildings with steel columns up the middle it seems even more impossible.
Now in the case of 47-story Building 7, which wasn't even hit by a jet, there must have occurred a fire that was hot enough, and thorough enough, to have resulted in the building's sudden total collapse, in a manner similar to free fall.
If there were no pyro-materials planted in Building 7, which of course officially there weren't, isn't it a frightening prospect that there are probably many state-of-the-art steel-structure buildings like this out there. It would seem logical that such buildings abound, which are ready to collapse in a free-fall manner -- just because they caught on fire? -- Incredible. What an unsafe city to live in.
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