Fire Causes Major Collapse, 9/11 Truth
UPDATE: In the comments, the Truthers are active. Do you people take stupid pills?
This is hard science. It’s not astrology or phrenology. Steel expands when heated to about 1000 degrees F. All of the pieces parts of the WTC towers were held together by bolts and rivets that were designed to tolerate a given amount of stress. Anything more, and they fail. Same as the highway. Steel expands 1.2 cm per meter at 1000 degrees. A ten foot I beam becomes 3.6 cm longer, about an inch and a half. No rivet or bolt is designed with that sort of give.
The WTC towers were hollow space surrounded by beams. Once one floor gave way, it would naturally pancake down the shaft that the exterior created. Each floor added tons to the load on the floor below. All the fire had to do was weaken one floor enough.
In an event strikingly similar to what happened at the World Trade Center, a raging fire caused the collapse of a steel and concrete highway structure in San Francisco.
Really. It got hot and collapsed.
Just like the Twin Towers did.
Imagine that.
A speeding gasoline tanker slammed into a guard rail near the Bay Bridge this morning, sparking an intense fire that destroyed part of the MacArthur Maze freeway complex.
Portions of the heavily-traveled Maze will close for weeks, if not months, likely creating traffic congestion not encountered by East Bay commuters since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
“The heat from the wreckage caused the ramp connecting eastbound Interstate 80 to eastbound Interstate 580 to melt and collapse,” Caltrans spokesman Jeff Weiss said. “The temperature during the fire exceeded 2,000 degrees.”
How can that be? Gasoline burns at 495 degrees F. It must be George Bush’s fault.
Officials are scrambling to figure out ways to ease the impact on the region’s roads after the accident, which occurred when a tanker truck carrying gasoline exploded around 3:45 a.m. and collapsed the connector to Interstate 580 from the Bay Bridge. The highway crashed down and landed onto the roadway that connects I-80 to I-880 and downtown Oakland, decimating two major interchanges in one of the Bay Area’s busiest corridors.
Now the 9/11 Truthers of the Bay Area have their own mystery to contemplate. How could concrete and steel collapse like that? Where was Karl Rove? How come all the Jews escaped? Bush lied! Al Gore is President!
Concrete and steel collapsed in fire. Just like the WTC.
Great. Did a little copy-&-paste work but forgot to “cut” in my previous post. I guess that makes me stupid… Or tired, but have it your way. BTW, this forum’s moderated? Why? It can’t be for harsh language. WTF?
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Christ. I guess I should stop asking questions — like “Who gained?” — about that sad day. Because if I don’t you guys’ll, what? Call me “stupid?” Classic. Feels like we’re all back on the playground in third grade. The day will probably come when I’m such a slug that I no longer care to understand the how’s, what’s, and why’s in life. Or — maybe “and” — the day will come when I just do as I’m told and accept whatever my “superiors” spout without question or consideration. When it does, kindly shoot me in the back of the head.
Every once in a while I have to “check my motives” and make sure that I’m not buying one tin-foil-hat or another because I’d like to see a turd like Cheney or Richard Perle go to FPMITA Prison. And, I’ll be honest: it would make my day and then some. On the flip side, do all of you firmly believe that there was nothing the least little bit on the suspicious side that day? Or are you defending folks who wouldn’t piss on most of us even if we were on fire? The day will come when I’m such a slug that I no longer care to understand the how’s, what’s, and why’s in life. Or — maybe “and” — the day will come when I just do as I’m told and accept whatever my “superiors” spout without question or consideration. When it does, kindly shoot me in the back of the head.
I’m simply a long time old country Volunteer Fire Fighter but I have seen steel beam, steel covered, buildings (warehouses, with very little contents) burn. The only thing standing were the warped and bowed steel beams, large steel beams. The thin metal siding was in puddles on the concrete floor. If they had been block or concrete they would have been a pile of sand on the concrete floor. The buildings simply disappeared without the help of Jet Fuel. By the way I was at one time a B-52 bomber mechanic in the U.S. Air Force (22 years) and I’ve learned something on here, jet fuel is propane. Wow, and here I thought it was more of a highly refined kerosene. Additionally as a child I’ve spent many hours turning the crank on a fan for a forge used by my father. Guess what we were doing, melting and forming steel. Now I know we were doing the impossible.
If the educated get any more stupid we won’t have enough nut houses to lock them up. Add in the BDS crowd and the mental health workers are overloaded, what will they do now? Millions of democrats will require they’re help. Want to work a few hours per month and earm millions per year, get a mental health license ‘now’.