Quote from 1000:
The answer is yes, if you ever heated metal, you know it expands.
So the steel beam framework is set in place and bolted to an exact length, once the superheating started to occur from the burning jet fuel, the beams would have buckled from expansion.
Quote from Turok:
Rat:
>did they have some special pipe already set up
>going from the top floors down 40 floors and
>out the window?
From the air's perspective, that's *exactly* what stair-wells, elevator shafts and utility plenums are -- giant pipes. Depending on what doors are open etc., determines which floors get pressurized. Weakest windows blow, pressure released -- simple physics.
JB
Quote from Turok:
1000:
>the beams would have buckled from expansion.
Rat:
>omg haroshi... please shut this guy up... he is spouting
>off old debunked garbage. no one believes this crap
>anymore. even hiroshi knows better.
Yeah Rat, your right -- no one believes that metal expands when heated anymore ... it's just "debunked garbage". Those old laws of physics used to apply -- not anymore.
JB
Quote from ratboy88:
thats why so many modern bldgs come crashing down when they have small fires. ok... you win [/sarcasm]
Quote from Turok:
How many modern bldgs have the fire insulation (which protects the beams from such expansion) knocked off from impact before set on fire.
Name one. C'mon ... just one.
You seem to overlook the simplest details such as the above.
JB