sci.physics

Jude Outta Your Mind wrote:

> george wrote:
>
>
>>On Feb 23, 2:57 am, Jude Outta Your Mind
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Al Dykes wrote:
>>>
>>>>In article ,
>>>>Henry <9...@> wrote:
>>>
>>>>No all-steel building in history was ever doused in thousands of
>>>>gallons of fuel, set afire and allowed to burn without any
>>>>firefighting.
>>>
>>>The amount of jet fuel on either one of the planes could not have covered
>>>one floor of the WTC with more than a centimeter of depth.
>>
>>Give us a figure here of what you claim was the fuel load and the
>>dimensions of the average floor area...
>>
>>And after you have done that what do you expect happened to the
>>flammable furnishings and materials on the floor
>>
>>
>>That excludes
>>
>>>the core space and neglects the fact that most of the fuel was consumed
>>>in
>>>the fireball. Since it was atomized upon impact, it would have been
>>>sprayed rather uniformly over the surfaces where it spread. Since the
>>>fuel was in the wings, and the wings impacted different floors, all of
>>>the fuel would not have been distributed on a single floor.
>>
>>The fuel would have ignited the furnishings on each floor
>>
>>
>>>Assume that half of the
>>>fuel was consumed in the fire ball, and that the remainder was spread
>>>fairly uniformly over two floors.
>>
>>Assume nothing. As the investigation of the WTC fires has been done by
>>NIST I'd recommend their study
>
>
> Where do you think I got my starting data?
>
> It's really not that hard to fathom. Consider that all of the fuel was in
> the wings. Compare the size of the wings with the size of the building.
>
> /events-images/
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>>That means there would have been an
>>
>>>average distribution of about millimeters thickness.
>>
>>No.
>>again you have no evidence that could espouse such an accurate figure
>
>
> The only thing that is really in question is the degree to which the fuel
> was evenly distributed over a floor. Nonetheless, it matters naught. The
> heat evidenced from the brightly glowing molten metal (probably iron)

Impossible. The columns immediately adjacent to the "molten metal" were
covered with aluminum cladding. If the "molten metal" pouring out of the
building was iron or steel, that cladding would have melted due to the
heat. It did not.