Originally Posted by
AJM8125
9/11 truthers, apparently too stupid to understand the concepts of hyperbole, simile and metaphor, took first responder quotes literally.
They took themselves seriously enough to make a museum exhibit about it; that's a bit more than hyperbole. Dozens of news paper articles, endless comments on the news about the hotspots, NASA's images of the ground 1300 degrees, but no, simple office fires wouldn't do that.
Originally Posted by
AJM8125
Well there's also the teensy detail of severe structural damage along with fire, but that's quibbling, right?
The fires were not hot enough to melt or even weaken that much steel, especially over such a short time, and if the "severe" structural damage wasn't enough to bring them down immediately, it wouldn't be enough to bring them down an hour later. It's a paradox, a conundrum.
Originally Posted by
AJM8125
You're looking into a smoke filled gash created by a 767. What stood there before was obliterated. Do you really expect to see intact structure there?
Yes. As stated before, the hollow tube of the fuselage was 17 feet in diameter.
The hole is twice that size.