01-10-2013, 01:48 AM
Tony Szamboti Wrote:You don't need thermocouples measuring the temperature of the steel during the fire. The steel itself provides a metallurgical record and the temperature it reached can be determined afterward. However, you need the steel afterward to do that. NIST got only 0.25 to 0.50% of the steel from the towers but what they got showed no metallurgical evidence of having reached temperatures where it even lost any strength.
Essentially, there is no evidence whatsoever that fire took those buildings down.
Your own post / data shows that we NIST either did not test for the temps of all the core steel in the region of the plane strikes and fires or didn't collect the steel from this region and couldn't test it. Reporting a few bits of temp data assuming they could make a reliable assessment does not prove what the temps may have been... all it proves is that NIST reported some data on 0.25%-.05% of the steel.
Of course NIST wanted us to believe it was sagging trusses and so why would they present temp data about the core? Or perhaps presenting just a few bits of data which does not conflict with their thesis.... cherry picking explains that they didn't report data that they may have had.
The steel did not *disappear* as a result of the collapse. One has to wonder why more of the steel in the strike zones was not saved and analyzed. Was it because it showed heat damage or as Tony would have us believe sings of explosives perhaps?