In article <48cffdc9$0$17632$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com>,
daybrown@daybrown.org says...
> BDK wrote:
> > In article <48cd4316$0$2860$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com>,
> > daybrown@daybrown.org says...
> >> BDK wrote:
> >>>> I mistyped. The peripheral exterior skin columns were sheet metal, and
> >>>> they could have collapsed straight down into the footprint of the
> >>>> building. No argument there at all. The core columns, which can be seen
> >>>> in the video, are much more solid, and can be seen standing like
> >>>> flagpoles- swaying a bit above the dust cloud. They should have gone
> >>>> over like a redwood, to land on other buildings or maybe a street in the
> >>>> area, but certainly could not fall into the footprint of the building.
> >>>>
> >>>> Why did they do that?
> >>>>
> >>> I would imagine the joints failed. Not the joints you used to smoke so
> >>> often, the joints that joined the sections of the columns together after
> >>> they were trucked in. Or are you going to claim they were phaser welded
> >>> together?
> >> Well, that's kinda curious too, you know? The photos of the MPLS Bridge
> >> collapse include gusset plates where the beams were bolted together that
> >> had failed. But I've seen photos of the WTC debris, and those plates
> >> were fine, the failure being along some section of the box beam where
> >> there wasnt any particular stress.
> >>
> >> My old place had a forge in my barn, and I still have a welding torch. I
> >> know that when you heat a piece of steel to bend it, there is a kind of
> >> hinge action in which the outside edge stretches and the inside edge is
> >> compressed and bulges. But that's not what I see in the posted photos of
> >> the breaks in the core column box beams. They look like they've been
> >> sliced off with an oxyacetylene torch.
> >
> > You probably are talking about the pictues where they show the beams
> > that WERE cut off with a torch!!
> If you cut off beams with a torch, BDK, as I have done, you make the
> shortest possible cut, that is 90 deg across the cut. If, however, you
> use thermite or some such in a controlled demolition, then when you set
> it so that a vertical beam is cut, you set the cut so that it is at a
> sharp angle. The weight of the structure at that point makes it shear
> off as it slides down.
BWHAHAHAHAHAA! WTF are you on? You really need to lay off whatever it
is, and the kookpages too. Look at the pics, before they got cut. They
are out there. I'm sure you can find them, professor....I bet the
kookpages conveniently leave them off..
>
> If I made long diagonal cuts like I saw in the photos of the 911 debris,
> I would've been fired for incompetence and wasting oxygen & acetylene.
Maybe you should sit down, and think, "So why would they want to cut
them like that?" Maybe it will come to you. Maybe. Let's see if you can
figure it out. Simple, so simple anyone should be able to get it.
>
> Why would anyone else be interested in your assessment of my mental
> capacity or state?
>
Same reason I am, for laughs, of course..
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