china's tallest building catches fire, doesn't collapse Options

[Seeker]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/augus...ot_collapse.htm

i thought all giant steel buildings collapsed when they catch on fire?

only thermite specially placed on the support columns and synchronized to go off bring down giant steel buildings

[impala454]

only thermite specially placed on the support columns and synchronized to go off bring down giant steel buildings

or burning jet fuel from a plane that just crashed into it perhaps?

I must have missed the part where it said the chinese building was lit on fire with 60,000 gallons of jet fuel.

[Seeker]

jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel (molten steel was found at ground zero)

NEXT!

[Hartmann]

oh God....

First of all, the building isn't even completed and the fire wasn't caused by a JET flying at 500 mph and full of jet fuel.

When all that is burning is concrete and construction equipment, yeah, I wouldn't expect it to collapse, but when a jet penetrates the interior and center structures of a building, I do.

I am still trying to figure out if you actually believe this stuff or if you post to simply get a rise out of us.

[impala454]

since you apparently missed your 5th grade science class, the term "melt" is when matter goes from solid -> liquid. the building would fall long before the steel got to that point.

[impala454]

I am still trying to figure out if you actually believe this stuff or if you post to simply get a rise out of us.

I thought that for a while, but a guy that came to work at my company in lubbock really was this bad so I guess these weirdos do exist. He sure is persistent if he's just joking around.

[schwab]

um...now every building has to collapse at teh smallest of fires? there is a huge difference between a plane colliding with a freakin building and exploding...then just a small fire

[THECHICKEN]

Everyone knows a lone gunman on the grassy gnoll brought down the twin towers with illuminati mind bullets...

The Multiple tons of Airplane running into the support structure of the towers, combined with wind creating heat conditions that warped the medal enough for the collapse are purely scientific and thus idiotic...

Praise jesus

[nattyice]

or burning jet fuel from a plane that just crashed into it perhaps?

I must have missed the part where it said the chinese building was lit on fire with 60,000 gallons of jet fuel.

The planes that hit the twin towers had a max fuel capacity of around 11,000 gallons, but were destined for short routes so probably had much less than that on board.

[Hartmann]

The planes that hit the twin towers had a max fuel capacity of around 11,000 gallons, but were destined for short routes so probably had much less than that on board.

Uh, BOS-LAX (UA Flight 175, North Tower) that's a longhaul flight, one that would have been fully loaded with fuel, especially with the low load of people it was carrying, probably doubled as a mail hauler.

BOS-LAX (AA Flight 11, South Tower), another longhaul flight, same equipment. Larger load, more than likely full of fuel, anticipating delays at BOS (which there were).

Also, A 767-200 carries right at 23,000 gallons of fuel fully loaded.

The plane that crashed in Shanksville and the one that hit the Pentagon were both 757-200s, single-aisle, transcon aircraft.

[impala454]

The planes that hit the twin towers had a max fuel capacity of around 11,000 gallons, but were destined for short routes so probably had much less than that on board.

even if you were right, which apparently according to hartman you're not, do you think that say, 5,000 gallons of jet fuel would weaken a structure enough to bring the building down?

[GOB]

the best part:

The World Financial Center in Shanghai bravely remains standing after fires gutted its top floors, a modern day miracle of science and a bizarre contradiction to the officially revised version of physics that came into effect on September 11, 2001.

[impala454]

yeah it's the best part because it shows how little they understand physics.

[John6.7]

That building has floor suports on every floor... the wtc only had an outer and an inner supports to give each floor an open loft.

Different ways of building a building.

[prefix]

when will people learn wtf they are talking before they open their mouth.