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Is it true the Twin Towers where made in the 60,s from 100,000psi steels & highest grade cements available ?
To withstand the impact of not one but <2> Boeing 707 jumbo jetliners that have <4> jet engines and cruising speed of 600 mph <not just 500> like the smaller and lighter Boeing 757 jetliners of today? so just how did both towers fall to dust & molten liquefied Metal? i don't think jet fuel burns hot enough to melt and liquefy to dust those towers as they where made to withstand <2> 707/dc-8 impacts!!!! in this video the cruising speed is 650 mph see old style jet engines ,<turbojets> do not fly slow like the newer <turbofans> so 600 mph the towers where designed to withstand.
so what do you think really took place ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztz3mt-IfU&feature...
11 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm pretty damn sure that you could fly 100 jumbo jetliners into the twin towers and the steel superstructure would remain intact. Heat flows from hot to cold. The fuel simply does NOT burn hot enough to melt steel. MOST of the fuel would burn outside of the building in the initial explosion.
If a steel reinforced concrete building can survive the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, then I'm pretty damn sure the twin towers could survive being hit by jumbo jet airliners all day long. It's like whacking a tree with a hammer; you can whack it all day long buts it's NOT going to suddenly collapse.
- 1 decade ago
The WTC towers were most certainly NOT made with HY-100, very few Iron Workers would know what to do with HY-100 if it were used. The claim that the towers were built to survive an impact from a 707 was a dubious claim to start, read the fine print: the claim uses the assumption that the <1> 707 would be traveling at just above stall speed, not 600 mph; and at any rate it wasn't the collision with the jet that brought the towers down, it was the uncontrolled fires.
Any fireman knows that an uncontrollable fire in a steel frame building will bring the building down, it is a question of "when", not "if". The steel does not have to reach the melting point to fail.
- Anonymous5 years ago
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Wrong on so many levels
The FAA has established maximum airspeed of 200 kts when flying at below 10,000 in the NYC TRACON
Typically aircraft that were taking off or doing landing approaches in the vicinity of the WTC were flying at speeds between 160-180 kts
So it makes no sense for the FAA to have a 550 kts impact speed requierment for the WTC
Source(s): Native New Yorker that has been flyin in and out of NYC airports since JFK was called Idlewild and who has put many miles on every "7 " series aircraft that has been built by Boeing. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
THERMITE as used in controlled demolition would melt steel if it reacted with the cooling system as demo'd on You Tube with ice.
Unless it was rigged up when built to make it easier to demolish when the time came, considering the work it would take to set up a controlled demolition on the scale of the Twin Towers.
Lots of things happened to distract everyone
NOTE (bugger it! I meant to put this in answer to your other question they deleted)
Source(s): Could have been an insurance job if like I heard it was rumoured insurance had been taken out only 6/8 weeks earlier but who would insure a building filled with dynamite and people? - Joe BTGSPLKLv 71 decade ago
OK your PHD in physics along with your PHD in structural mechanics, coupled with a PHD in conspiracy theories does in fact trump scientific evidence. So we will let you keep your theories and I will consider them the same as all other birther and truther theories
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Shoddy workmanship!!!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
True.
But the aviation fuel burned hot enough that it could have weakened the structure of the building and then collapsed under its own weight.
WTC7 is another story. Idk how that one could possibly have fallen.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Wrong section