Originally Posted by
yankee451
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.
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Originally Posted by
yankee451
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.
Evidently your missiles weren't enough to initiate an immediate collapse either. What does that leave us with, Steve?
Originally Posted by
yankee451
Yes. As stated before, the hollow tube of the fuselage was 17 feet in diameter.
The hole is twice that size.
So you'd expect a similar sized impact hole?