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DO you all remember the video from 9/11 when the news lady was talking about how WTC7 had collapsed and it was still standing in the background?

She was like 5 minutes too early with the news...

Yeah that was hilarious.

"So we decided to POE it".
Except of course you do not POE, decide to demolish, wire and detonate all withing one hour. WTC7 was wired ready to be turned into rubble days before 9/11.
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@FourOh-LLC

Yup I remember that one too.

Thinking about how long time that would take and also the reasoning behind why?

Office fire?

WTC7 was also extremely sturdy. Among the thickest reinforcement I have seen. Why would anyone decide to POE it?

What was feeding the office fires? Reportedly it was burning for hours. What kind of fuel, how much fuel sustains fires for 1, 2, 3 hours at the intensity that would compromise the structural integrity of a 47-level concrete building?

Even if there were open natural gas lines, the ambient would insulate the largest fires. I am melting aluminum cans in an insulated furnace, and its difficult to pour into forms because of the ambient cools the aluminum too fast.

Rebars, H-Beams, concrete and steel would require so many megajoules sustained for how many hours?

No, it makes no sense to me.

@FourOh-LLC

And why wasn't the office fires put out by the automatic sprinklers?

Remember seeing a Chinese building of similar shape as the WTC towers. It was burning ofr 5 days and afterwards the structure was so hot that it glowed in the night. The whole building was emitting red and yellow light due to the intense heat

Funny thing though. The steel enforced concrete newer gave in. The building stood tall through the whole ordeal

Chinese buildings sometimes fall on their own

I made plenty of experimentation trying to build a candle-light furnace, using refactory cement and heavy, very heavy insulation (inches of ceramic fiber blankets), trying to melt aluminum.

I cannot do it, even at a theoretical 99% insulation and having the 1200 - 1400 Celsius zones inside the mini-furnace the heat will not build up to the melting point of the aluminum (661 Celsius). The Laws of Thermodynamics might allow this only with a candle light much larger than what you can buy in stores (I would have to build a candle that has a 10 - 30 millimeter diameter wick and it burns enough paraffin at sufficient rate).

I cannot melt less than 1 gram aluminum foil this way. Metals have such huge heat capacities.
What blows up the star into a supernova is when it reaches the point of making iron. Also, only the stars with sufficient mass can turn into supernova, making iron and heavier elements require that much energy.

In my teens I worked in a steel foundry, putting together the composition to load and feed the furnaces. The oxygen furnaces burned for 10 - 12 hours to melt 80 tons each of recycled junk.

You cannot "learn" about this stuff unless you experience this in reality, hear the roaring of the gas and oxygen nozzles, and feel the heat of Hell (2000+ Celsius).

No fucking way can you melt H-beams of structural steel in the open ambient.

@FourOh-LLC

Not without a huge fan and constantly added fuel.

All the kerosene (jet fuel) was burned up on impact so there is that.

It was controlled demolition. There were charges. Look how the building fell.