God, people will concume the most blatent bollocks that has been prepared for consumption if it tickles their fancy rather than take the time to do some decent research themselves.
It's pure laziness; I go to Yahoo! and use "fires steel structure melting" as a search string and here is the evidence I can get in about half an hour that completely rubbishes most conspiracy theories;
Steel loses its load bearing properties at about 550ºC [1022ºF], which is much lower than the melting point of steel and much lower than temperatures reached in a fire. The temperature at which load bearing properties of steel are lost is more important than the melting point of steel.
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However, during instances of irregular ignition—for example from a hydrocarbon source, such as petrol or aircraft fuel—fire exposure is significantly more severe. This is reflected both in the rate of temperature rise and in the temperatures reached. In certain cases, a high temperature torching jet-fire can occur, when pressure achieved by the flame front is also much higher than under conventional cellulosic fire conditions.
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmtlgr/482/48240.htm
Square brackets and underlining is mine.
So, fact one is the statements that steel doesn't melt until x are irrelevent; melting is when it becomes liquid (doh!); it does not magically go from solid strong steel to liquid at x degrees, it melts and gets runny and becomes structurally useless progressively and is pretty far gone at 550 degrees Centigrade - 1022 degrees F.
Oh, also the calm statements from people that the fire couldn't be that hot as jet fuel only burns at x temperature are also stupidly uninformed;
When plastics are involved in a fire such as those found in modern day offices, atmospheric temperatures easily achieve 1200°C [2192°F].
http://www.corusconstructionandindustrial.com/corus/index.jsp?pageID=28#2
Moronic conspiracy theorists have about as much scholastic integrity as nazi revisonists;
As the FEMA “Building Performance Assessment” report says, “Temperatures may have been as high as 900-1,100 degrees Celsius (1,700-2,000 Fahrenheit) in some areas.”
“If FEMA’s temperature estimates are correct, the interiors of the towers were furnaces capable of casting aluminum and glazing pottery,” Eric Hufschmid, author of the book Time for Painful Questions writes. Yet the voices on the tape prove that several firefighters were able to work “without fear” for an extended period at the point of the crash, and that the fires they encountered there were neither intense nor large.
Here we see the phrase 'in some areas' in the first paragraph ignored by the author of the book quoted, His phrasing 'the interiors of the towers were furnaces capable of casting aluminum and glazing pottery' makes it seem that rather than there being isolated points where the temperature were very high, the temperature was even.
“I was at the base of the second tower, the second tower that was hit,” Evans said. “There was an explosion—I didn’t think it was an explosion—but the base of the building shook. I felt it shake . . . then when we were outside, the second explosion happened and then there was a series of explosions. . . . We can only wonder at the kind of damage—the kind of human damage—which was caused by those explosions—those series of explosions,” he said.
Evans is a professional journalist and although his observations of explosions in the second tower should be taken into account, they are not
In the first paragraph the quoted journalist corrects his first use of the word 'explosion' in the first paragraph by saying 'I didn’t think it was an explosion—but the base of the building shook', and then carries on using the term 'explosion', having made it clear he's NOT talking about explosions as in dynamite but explosions as in bang. This is ignored by the author of the article in the second paragraph. It also implies that journalists have special knowledge by benefit of being journalists that allow them to comment as an expert on loud bangs.
Both above quotes are from http://www.americanfreepress.net/08_09_02/New_York_Firefighters__/new_york_firefighters__.html Red higlights are mine.
I would suggest anyone interested in a pretty good discussion of what happened try this link; I've given the URL below, as well as embedding the page, you can actually get a full transcript of the program if you want at the foot of the page;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/worldtradecenter.shtmlSo, make yourself look like an uninformed credulous ass or do some bloody work for half an hour; the choice is yours.Hamas: I am looking forward to your demonstration (steering clear of mistakes like those outloijn ed above) of old Bin Ladin's innocence...Jayson: Errr...oh, no, never mind, it doesn't matter...