Well, we're not going to agree, which is fine with me. I do appreciate you addressed the issues above. Doing so restored some of the respect I have long held for you as a rational and forthright voice. I have apparently mistaken some of your remarks as simply avoidance of factual evidence, for which I apologize.
Regarding thermite, no other explanation remotely approaches the energy that was necessary to render massive amounts of the steel in the towers molten, and so hot that pools of liquid steel underground delayed the demolition work for weeks.
Not a chance that office fires did that, and most of the fuel of the planes was expended in the fireballs.
I understand you don't want to get bogged down in a discussion of these details, so I'll respect that and leave it there.
Thank you for the courtesy of your substantive reply.
The point wasnt in making the claim the steel beams are molten. It was weaking of the inner structure when the plane hit it and office fires affecting their load bearing. Steel loses about 50% of its strength at something like 400 celsius. Try burning a book, it could reach up to 900 Celsius in temperature.
Even if you watch the videos you see that wtc 1 and 2 are falling from the top down, exactly from the area where the plane hit them. Once the debris and floor hit lower floors where the structure is stronger everything starts toppling to the side.
Where do you even think the thermite was placed? In the basement? Because thats not how the buildings fell. They fell from top down. They were even falling at an angle. No compound associated with thermite was there.
Plane hit, made a hole, structure weakened, floors fell down. Theres nothing questionable about that.
I think ill end it on this note.
The worst thing about the 9/11 conspiracies is that you guys focused on a narrative that is easily dismissed.
If all of you that believe this instead focused on the right problem things could have been different, better.
The CIA, FBI fucked up, had info on the possible hijacking, did not act and because of their incompetence and failure civil liberties had to be stomped on.
That was the battle to fight, not this.