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Originally Posted by bobabode
Hell, I'm just a nailpounding construction puke and it was obvious to me. Pour jet fuel all over structural steel after blowing off the fireproofing and it turns to taffy.
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hehe. When I went through my 9-11 conspiracy phase I also did a simple analysis regarding the jet fuel. It went like this.
The amount of jet fuel was more than my mind could comprehend. Ten thousand, twenty thousand, however many gallons it was I don't recall. All I knew was that I saw someone light a bonfire with five gallons of gasoline and whew, what a fire. But the size of the fire was compared to me, not compared to a skyscraper, so I rescaled and noodled on it some more.
I rescaled the jet fuel to a cubic centimeter, about a thimble full. At that scale the building is roughly a foot square and six feet tall. Then I rescaled the I-beams and floors. As best I recall the the vertical columns scaled to about the diameter of coat hanger wire and the floors scaled to about the thickness of sandpaper.
With that model in mind I reconsidered the scale of the fire and asked myself whether a thimble of burning kerosene could cause forty something coat hanger wires to collapse under the weight of a few sheets of sandpaper. The answer was no.
Not science, just noodling from a solder slinging tech puke.