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TESTIMONY of MOLTEN STEEL

All the testimony can be found in the following links:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a091901astanehfinds
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-was-there-molten-metal-under.html
http://wtc.nist.gov/media/AE911Truth-NIST-Written-Submission12-18-07.pdf
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/moltensteel.html
http://8real.proboards104.com/index.cgi?board=buildings&action=print&thread=2
http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/molten-steel-found-at-ground-zero-weeks-after-911/

1. Leslie Robertson, one of the structural engineers responsible for the design of the WTC, “21 days after the attacks, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running”

2. Alison Geyh, who heads a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reports: “Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel.”

3. Ron Burger, a public health advisor who arrives at Ground Zero on September 12, says that “feeling the heat” and “seeing the molten steel” there reminds him of a volcano.

4. According to a member of New York Air National Guard’s 109th Air Wing, who is at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6: “One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers’ remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots.”

5. New York firefighters recall “heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel.”

6. As late as five months after the attacks, in February 2002, firefighter Joe O’Toole sees a steel beam being lifted from deep underground at Ground Zero, which, he says, “was dripping from the molten steel.”

7. But Dr. Frank Gayle, who leads the steel forensics aspects of NIST’s investigation of the WTC collapses, is quoted as saying: “Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the fire so very intense, a lot of people figured that’s what melted the steel. Indeed it didn’t, the steel did not melt.”

8 A NY firefighter described molten steel flowing at ground zero, and said it was like a "foundry" or like "lava".

9. An employee of New Jersey's Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue witnessed "Fires burning and molten steel flow[ing] in the pile of ruins still settling beneath her feet."

10. The head of a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reported, "Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel."

11. A reporter with rare access to the debris at ground zero "descended deep below street level to areas where underground fires still burned and steel flowed in molten streams."

12. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration Officer at the Trade Center reported a fire truck 10 feet below the ground that was still burning two weeks after the Tower collapsed, "its metal so hot that it looked like a vat of molten steel."

13. Greg Fuchek A witness said “In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten steel

14. The structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, described fires still burning and molten steel still running 21 days after the attacks

15. A NY Department of Sanitation spokeswoman said "for about two and a half months after the attacks, in addition to its regular duties, NYDS played a major role in debris removal - everything from molten steel beams to human remains...."

16. An expert stated about World Trade Center building 7, "A combination of an uncontrolled fire and the structural damage might have been able to bring the building down, some engineers said. But that would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been PARTLY EVAPORATED in extraordinarily high temperatures". Note that evaporation means conversion from a liquid to a gas; so the steel beams in building 7 or in rubble pile were (arguably) subjected to temperatures high enough to melt and evaporate them.

17. Mark loiseaux president of controlled demoltion, Inc. Who was hired for building 7 clean up, said that “molten steel was found at WTC 7”

18. Bart voorsanger, an archetect hired to save “relics from the rubble” stated about the mult ton “meteorite” that it was a “fused element of molten steel and concrete”

19. Sarah Atlas “nobodies going to be alive. Fires burned and molten steel flowed in the pile of ruins”

20. The president of Tully Construction of Flushing, NY, said he saw pools of "literally molten steel" at Ground Zero.

21. Richard Riggs on the history channel “the fires got very intense down there and actually melted beams where it was molten steel being dug up”

Video footage of testimony
#8 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3060923273573302287&q
#21 http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ogrupgt4mI&NR=1


RELICS FROM THE RUBBLE

1)The meteorite http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=xbMu2w7fSG8&feature=related http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=swH1WaIMkNc&feature=related

2) FEMA metalurgical examination sample 1 and NIST’s sample K-16 photos (p312 and 317). Both FEMA smaple 1 and NIST sample K-16 are in fact the same steel sample.

Relics from the rubble prove that temperatures were suffucient to melt. There is dispute over wheter K-16 was evaporated by exposure to high temperatures over a long period of time or a short period of time and whether this evaporation occured during or after the collapse. But there can be no dispute over the meteorite since steel must first melt in order to fuse with another element or material.

THERMAL IMAGES
I came across this post #443 by Dr.Greening (Apollo20) here He provides the following quotation from the following source: Spadafora, R. “Firefighter and safety and health issues at the World Trade Center Site.” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 42, no.6 (2002): p532

"Fires burned beneath the rubble for the first 4 months of the operation. Helicopters using thermal imaging cameras revealed underground temperatures ranging from 400 to more than 2,800 deg F." [2800F = 1537c and steel melts at 1500c]

Unfortunately there are no thermal footage to accompany this quotation but I am sure its out there and would be eager to see it. It would also be nice to know when the thermal footage was recorded. In any case, such temperatures further confirm that conditions in the rubble pile were consistent with melting steel observed by numerous individuals. I am assuming that surface temperatures of 1537c would mean that temperatures below were even greater.

It should also be noted that although thermal images from USGS did not show such temperatures, molten steel was still found under the somewhat cooler temperature ratings by USGS nonetheless.
 
[A] Argument from Denial:
NIST
“In no instance did NIST report that steel in the WTC towers melted due to the fires”

Here you will see John Gross, lead engineer of the NIST report, lying and in complete denial of the evidence.

So, four years and 20 million dollars later NIST were unable to find any evidence for molten steel which I could find in a few minutes with a google search?

Argument from Irrelevancy:
NIST
“The condition of the steel in the wreckage of the WTC towers (i.e., whether it was in a molten state or not) was irrelevant to the investigation of the collapse since it does not provide any conclusive information on the condition of the steel when the WTC towers were standing.”

Above NIST assumes that the presence of molten steel is not relevant to the question of why and how the towers collapsed. But without knowing exactly what caused the molten steel to appear, how can NIST say with all certainty that whatever caused the molten steel to appear has nothing got to do with why the towers collapsed? Answer: they cant.

911 was the first time in history when a steel skyscraper collapsed from ‘fire’. And this happened three times in the one day! Moreover, 911 was the first time in history when molten steel was discovered in the rubble of a fire induced collapse. And this happened three times in the one day! To rule out any possible link or connection between these two unique and unprecedented events is beyond comprehension. And in my opinion stinks of a cover up.

[C] If there was molten steel it resulted from exposure to combustion:
NIST
“Under certain circumstances it is conceivable for some of the steel in the wreckage to have melted after the buildings collapsed. Any molten steel in the wreckage was more likely due to the high temperature resulting from long exposure to combustion within the pile than to short exposure to fires or explosions while the buildings were standing”

Unfortunately NIST never specifies:
  • what circumstances
  • what temperatures
  • how long is the exposure
  • what kind of combustion

Many would describe the rubble pile at WTC as a “smoldering” rubble pile. Here is a paper on smoldering combustion and here is the definition given:
“Smoldering is a slow, low temperature, flameless form of combustion, sustained by the heat evolved when oxygen directly attacks the surface of a condensed-phase fuel.”
Bolding added.

-According to this paper the typical gas temperatures produced by smoldering combustion is between 400 – 790c. Such temperatures are well below those required to melt steel (1500c)

-Red hotspots were observed from space just 2 hours after the destruction of WTC 1 + 2 and molten steel was first sighted on September 12th A slow, low temperature form of combustion cannot account for these anomolies.
 
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There's a seperate 9/11 subforum now.


You know, a while back a car skidded on ice and hit a tree in front of my house. The air bags deployed and my brother heard what he said sounded like a shotgun going off. Hearing this from him I rushed outside to see the shotgun but only saw the crashed car. I ran over to the car and asked the driver where the shotgun was that had been fired. Shaken up the driver simply asked me to dial 911. However my concern was finding the shotgun that had been fired. That shotgun could be anywhere and I needed to know who had fired it, at what they had fired it and for what reason. So, with the driver drifting off into unconsciousness I canvased the neighborhood searching for that elusive shotgun. After all something that's described as sounding like a shotgun must be a shotgun. Similarly any molten metal that is described as steel, regardless of ones ability to know if it is steel, must really be steel. Why would they describe molten aluminum and copper as steel and why would someone say something sounded like a shotgun unless they had really heard a shotgun?
 
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Premise #1: there is undeniable evidence for molten steel at the World Trade Center.

Premise #2: Assuming that NIST, FEMA, and the 911 Commission represent the official government position then there is no official explanation for the molten steel

Premise #3: Without determing what caused the molten steel it is impossible to rule it out as unrelated and nonrelevant to why three skyscrapers totally collapsed.

Conclusion: A New Independent Investigation Is Needed to determine whether what caused the molten steel had any relation to the question why World Trade Center 1, 2 and 7 were completely destroyed.
 
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Premise #1: there is undeniable evidence for molten steel at the World Trade Center.

You mis-spelled "anecdotal".

Premise #2: Assuming that NIST, FEMA, and the 911 Commission represent the official government position then there is no official explanation for the molten steel

Why, exactly, is the givernment required to have, or state, an official explanation of every phenomenon observed, ever?

Premise #3: Without determing what caused the molten steel it is impossible to rule it out as unrelated and nonrelevant to why three skyscrapers totally collapsed.

Insufficient reasoning. The existence of the molten steel has not been unambiguously established, as it is purely anecdotal, and in particular involves no sampling and subsequent analysis of the material claimed to be molten steel. The evidence for molten steel preceding the collapse, however, is nonexistent, since it is limited to the observation of a liquid flow at a colour temperature indicating that it was below the melting point of steel (as I've pointed out when you posted this discussion in the forum it's supposed to be posted in). Although it is impossible to rule it out as unrelated and irrelevant, simple causality rules out molten steel after the collapse as a cause of the collapse. From an engineering point of view, studying the causes of the collapse is a means of generating vitally important information on the behaviour of damaged structures, and therefore for informing future design of safer structures. Studying the after-effects of the collapse is more a matter of general scientific curiosity; probably not a waste of time, but much less pressing.

Conclusion: A New Independent Investigation Is Needed to determine whether what caused the molten steel had any relation to the question why World Trade Center 1, 2 and 7 were completely destroyed.

I would tend to agree subject to the proviso that a small university-based research project would be the appropriate level of investigation. There's probably one going on somewhere. However, I suspect that's not what you had in mind.

I'll ask the mods to move this thread into the right forum.

Dave
 
TESTIMONY of MOLTEN STEEL

All the testimony can be found in the following links:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a091901astanehfinds
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-was-there-molten-metal-under.html
http://wtc.nist.gov/media/AE911Truth-NIST-Written-Submission12-18-07.pdf
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/moltensteel.html
http://8real.proboards104.com/index.cgi?board=buildings&action=print&thread=2
http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/molten-steel-found-at-ground-zero-weeks-after-911/

1. Leslie Robertson, one of the structural engineers responsible for the design of the WTC, “21 days after the attacks, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running”

2. Alison Geyh, who heads a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reports: “Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel.”

3. Ron Burger, a public health advisor who arrives at Ground Zero on September 12, says that “feeling the heat” and “seeing the molten steel” there reminds him of a volcano.

4. According to a member of New York Air National Guard’s 109th Air Wing, who is at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6: “One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers’ remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots.”

5. New York firefighters recall “heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel.”

6. As late as five months after the attacks, in February 2002, firefighter Joe O’Toole sees a steel beam being lifted from deep underground at Ground Zero, which, he says, “was dripping from the molten steel.”

7. But Dr. Frank Gayle, who leads the steel forensics aspects of NIST’s investigation of the WTC collapses, is quoted as saying: “Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the fire so very intense, a lot of people figured that’s what melted the steel. Indeed it didn’t, the steel did not melt.”

8 A NY firefighter described molten steel flowing at ground zero, and said it was like a "foundry" or like "lava".

9. An employee of New Jersey's Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue witnessed "Fires burning and molten steel flow[ing] in the pile of ruins still settling beneath her feet."

10. The head of a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reported, "Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel."

11. A reporter with rare access to the debris at ground zero "descended deep below street level to areas where underground fires still burned and steel flowed in molten streams."

12. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration Officer at the Trade Center reported a fire truck 10 feet below the ground that was still burning two weeks after the Tower collapsed, "its metal so hot that it looked like a vat of molten steel."

13. Greg Fuchek A witness said “In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten steel

14. The structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, described fires still burning and molten steel still running 21 days after the attacks

15. A NY Department of Sanitation spokeswoman said "for about two and a half months after the attacks, in addition to its regular duties, NYDS played a major role in debris removal - everything from molten steel beams to human remains...."

16. An expert stated about World Trade Center building 7, "A combination of an uncontrolled fire and the structural damage might have been able to bring the building down, some engineers said. But that would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been PARTLY EVAPORATED in extraordinarily high temperatures". Note that evaporation means conversion from a liquid to a gas; so the steel beams in building 7 or in rubble pile were (arguably) subjected to temperatures high enough to melt and evaporate them.

17. Mark loiseaux president of controlled demoltion, Inc. Who was hired for building 7 clean up, said that “molten steel was found at WTC 7”

18. Bart voorsanger, an archetect hired to save “relics from the rubble” stated about the mult ton “meteorite” that it was a “fused element of molten steel and concrete”

19. Sarah Atlas “nobodies going to be alive. Fires burned and molten steel flowed in the pile of ruins”

20. The president of Tully Construction of Flushing, NY, said he saw pools of "literally molten steel" at Ground Zero.

21. Richard Riggs on the history channel “the fires got very intense down there and actually melted beams where it was molten steel being dug up”

Video footage of testimony
#8 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3060923273573302287&q
#21 http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ogrupgt4mI&NR=1


RELICS FROM THE RUBBLE

1)The meteorite http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=xbMu2w7fSG8&feature=related http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=swH1WaIMkNc&feature=related

2) FEMA metalurgical examination sample 1 and NIST’s sample K-16 photos (p312 and 317). Both FEMA smaple 1 and NIST sample K-16 are in fact the same steel sample.

Relics from the rubble prove that temperatures were suffucient to melt. There is dispute over wheter K-16 was evaporated by exposure to high temperatures over a long period of time or a short period of time and whether this evaporation occured during or after the collapse. But there can be no dispute over the meteorite since steel must first melt in order to fuse with another element or material.

THERMAL IMAGES
I came across this post #443 by Dr.Greening (Apollo20) here He provides the following quotation from the following source: Spadafora, R. “Firefighter and safety and health issues at the World Trade Center Site.” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 42, no.6 (2002): p532

"Fires burned beneath the rubble for the first 4 months of the operation. Helicopters using thermal imaging cameras revealed underground temperatures ranging from 400 to more than 2,800 deg F." [2800F = 1537c and steel melts at 1500c]

Unfortunately there are no thermal footage to accompany this quotation but I am sure its out there and would be eager to see it. It would also be nice to know when the thermal footage was recorded. In any case, such temperatures further confirm that conditions in the rubble pile were consistent with melting steel observed by numerous individuals. I am assuming that surface temperatures of 1537c would mean that temperatures below were even greater.

It should also be noted that although thermal images from USGS did not show such temperatures, molten steel was still found under the somewhat cooler temperature ratings by USGS nonetheless.

Who out of all those quotes would be qualified to know if it was molten steel.

Why didn't experts from all over question why the rubble pile was so hot. Could it be because it wasn't that unexpected in the situation?
 
It's almost as if the OP thinks that even if his fantasy was true and EVERY quote that mentions molten steel actually referred to molten steel it would prove 911 was an inside job.

Silly.
 
Premise #3: Without determing what caused the molten steel it is impossible to rule it out as unrelated and nonrelevant to why three skyscrapers totally collapsed.

Since you are the one going to great effort to prove that molten steel existed days and weeks after the collapse, why are you not proposing an opinion on it's relevance to the collapse?

Is it your opinion that something melted the steel, caused the collapse, and continued to keep the steel in a liquid form in the rubble pile?
 
For the love and honor of god, have we time travelled back to 2005-2006? Are you really coming here with the "Molten Steel" argument again.

I think there are so many threads on this, It would take more than a page long post to list them all...

1. You have listed a pile of quotes from people who saw molten metal, which they described as steel, but most HAVE NO QUALIFICATIONS to idicated what type of metal it was. They were surrounded by the remains of a steel framed building, and likely the first metal that came to mind, would be STEEL.

2. Many, if not most, of your examples describe metal seen in the debris pile days to weeks after the collapses. We have imagery evidence from NASA, do we not, that there many many pockets of extreme heat/temperature for days and weeks after the collapses...It would not surprise me to see molten metal, perhaps even steel, located in these pockets.

So what you have is a list of quotes, many talking about weeks if not months after the collapses, for the most part from UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE (non-metalurgists) stating there was molten steel at GZ.

Well done. So this proves????????????????????????

TAM:)
 
13. Why did the NIST investigation not consider reports of molten steel in the wreckage from the WTC towers?

NIST investigators and experts from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEONY)—who inspected the WTC steel at the WTC site and the salvage yards—found no evidence that would support the melting of steel in a jet-fuel ignited fire in the towers prior to collapse. The condition of the steel in the wreckage of the WTC towers (i.e., whether it was in a molten state or not) was irrelevant to the investigation of the collapse since it does not provide any conclusive information on the condition of the steel when the WTC towers were standing.

NIST considered the damage to the steel structure and its fireproofing caused by the aircraft impact and the subsequent fires when the buildings were still standing since that damage was responsible for initiating the collapse of the WTC towers.

Under certain circumstances it is conceivable for some of the steel in the wreckage to have melted after the buildings collapsed. Any molten steel in the wreckage was more likely due to the high temperature resulting from long exposure to combustion within the pile than to short exposure to fires or explosions while the buildings were standing

Emphasis added.

ETA: I'm also calling for the tag monitors to correct the silly tags thewholesoul has appended to this thread.
 
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You bolded the wrong part of number 7...

7. But Dr. Frank Gayle, who leads the steel forensics aspects of NIST’s investigation of the WTC collapses, is quoted as saying: "Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the fire so very intense, a lot of people figured that’s what melted the steel. Indeed it didn’t, the steel did not melt."
 
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In all the cases save for point 12, each mention was in reference to molten metals post collapse. And point 12 was a simile.
It is entirely possible that steel and other metals became molten in the debris piles post collapse, but no one argues that they were molten pre-collapse. No one besides conspiracy peddlers, that is.

[A] Argument from Denial:
NIST

Here you will see John Gross, lead engineer of the NIST report, lying and in complete denial of the evidence.

So, four years and 20 million dollars later NIST were unable to find any evidence for molten steel which I could find in a few minutes with a google search?

John Gross was discussing the pre-collapse state. Again, you fail to discriminate between what is a statement regarding the conditions pre-collapse and after the fall.

Argument from Irrelevancy:
NIST

Above NIST assumes that the presence of molten steel is not relevant to the question of why and how the towers collapsed. But without knowing exactly what caused the molten steel to appear, how can NIST say with all certainty that whatever caused the molten steel to appear has nothing got to do with why the towers collapsed? Answer: they cant.

911 was the first time in history when a steel skyscraper collapsed from ‘fire’. And this happened three times in the one day! Moreover, 911 was the first time in history when molten steel was discovered in the rubble of a fire induced collapse. And this happened three times in the one day! To rule out any possible link or connection between these two unique and unprecedented events is beyond comprehension. And in my opinion stinks of a cover up.

There's no cover up. The presence of molten metal in the piles after the collapse is no indication of the state inside the towers prior to collapse, especially in the light of evidence showing the high temperatures in the rubble piles, once such piece of evidence you yourself quoted. For the third time, you fail to distinguish between molten metals post collapse, and the state of the towers prior to collapse.

If there was molten steel it resulted from exposure to combustion:
NIST










Unfortunately NIST never specifies:
  • what circumstances
  • what temperatures
  • how long is the exposure
  • what kind of combustion

Why specify? Measurements of the rubble piles post collapse show temperatures capable of melting steel. You even quote one of the articles yourself. Why would they need to specify that information, especially in the light of the fact that their mandate was to discover the cause of the collapse, not to describe the state of the rubble post collapse?

Many would describe the rubble pile at WTC as a “smoldering” rubble pile. Here is a paper on smoldering combustion and here is the definition given: Bolding added.
“Smoldering is a slow, low temperature, flameless form of combustion, sustained by the heat evolved when oxygen directly attacks the surface of a condensed-phase fuel.”

But the conditions in the rubble piles cannot be taken to be the same as the conditions in the tower prior to collapse. Again, you fail to understand that the pre-collapse circumstances are different.

According to this paper the typical gas temperatures produced by smoldering combustion is between 400 – 790c. Such temperatures are well below those required to melt steel (1500c)

-Red hotspots were observed from space just 2 hours after the destruction of WTC 1 + 2 and molten steel was first sighted on September 12th A slow, low temperature form of combustion cannot account for these anomolies.

And yet you quote the Bechtel SH&E article that shows differently. Once again:

"Fires burned beneath the rubble for the first 4 months of the operation. Helicopters using thermal imaging cameras revealed underground temperatures ranging from 400 to more than 2,800 deg F."

You contradict yourself. You choose a generic description based on a preconception that was falsified by a statement you yourself posted just above your assertion. The SH&E team's measurement of the debris pile demonstrates that the fires were indeed hot enough. So obviously, saying the debris pile was smoldering is inaccurate.

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Your whole problem lays in the fact that you are taking such sightings of molten metals post collapse to indicate states in the towers prior to collapse. This has been discussed in this forum before. Given the heat of the fires in the rubble piles - temperatures noted in an article you choose to highlight - and the lack of such sightings prior to the towers collapse, it is quite obvious that whatever molten steel existed (assuming those sightings were indeed of steel and not one of the other metals present in the towers) was rendered molten in the rubble piles themselves. There is a distinct lack of molten steel evidence that demonstrates it existed prior to collapse; all "sightings" that have been purported by conspiracy peddlers have not been proven to be steel, and have been shown to most likely be another metal (for example, the supposed molten "waterfall" in the famous video from a few years back; some believe it's aluminum from either the facade or the aircraft itself, others believe it's molten lead from the uninterruptible power supplies known to have been on that floor. Either way, the metal's characteristics are not indicative of it being steel). So why take so much time to try and argue that post-collapse observations indicate pre-collapse states? One is separate from another, and it has been shown many times over that the steel didn't have to melt to account for the towers' collapses.
 
If there were 'tons' of molten anything wouldn't clean-up have located it in either liquid or solid state and asked what in the world it was doing there?
 
Premise #1: there is undeniable evidence for molten steel at the World Trade Center.

I would hardly call it "undeniable", but regardless, as I noted above, post collapse molten metals indicate nothing about the pre-collapse state.

Premise #2: Assuming that NIST, FEMA, and the 911 Commission represent the official government position then there is no official explanation for the molten steel

And it doesn't have to. Once again, there is nothing about the presence of metals that were rendered molten in the rubble piles that contradicts anything about the collapse mechanism they described. The post collapse states of the metals in the rubble piles were rendered such by the rubble pile fires, not by any mechanism inside the towers. We know this because of the lack of molten steel sightings prior to collapse.

Premise #3: Without determing what caused the molten steel it is impossible to rule it out as unrelated and nonrelevant to why three skyscrapers totally collapsed.

Incorrect. They are ruled out as unrelated and nonrelevant because no sightings of molten steel were made prior to collapse, and all were post collapse. Therefore, any such sightings can be attributed to the fires in the rubble piles.

Conclusion: A New Independent Investigation Is Needed to determine whether what caused the molten steel had any relation to the question why World Trade Center 1, 2 and 7 were completely destroyed.

That conclusion is irrelevant. Your logic train derails at the point you presume that the post-collapse observations indicate anything about the pre-collapse conditions. They do not.
 
6. As late as five months after the attacks, in February 2002, firefighter Joe O’Toole sees a steel beam being lifted from deep underground at Ground Zero, which, he says, “was dripping from the molten steel.”
Besides not being an expert in metallurgy I wonder how the heavy equipment was able to reach into a furnace that was able to melt the ends of the steel column and not melt itself. Not only that but how was the steel able to melt on the ends but have no transfer of heat to the middle. Guess it was M&M steel columns :)
 
Premise #1: there is undeniable evidence for molten steel at the World Trade Center.

Premise #2: Assuming that NIST, FEMA, and the 911 Commission represent the official government position then there is no official explanation for the molten steel

Premise #3: Without determing what caused the molten steel it is impossible to rule it out as unrelated and nonrelevant to why three skyscrapers totally collapsed.

Conclusion: A New Independent Investigation Is Needed to determine whether what caused the molten steel had any relation to the question why World Trade Center 1, 2 and 7 were completely destroyed.

Oh my Gosh! After all these years you have finally convinced me! You're absolutely right!

What do you suggest we do in order to bring about this new investigation?
 
TESTIMONY of MOLTEN STEEL

1. Leslie Robertson, one of the structural engineers responsible for the design of the WTC, “21 days after the attacks, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running”

Quote was second hand. The quoter says he does not recall making such a statement and wasn't in a position to make it:

http://www.911myths.com/html/leslie_robertson.html

2. Alison Geyh, who heads a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reports: “Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel.”

Did not see any molten steel herself: "I personally saw open fires, glowing and twisted I-beams. I was told, but do not remember by whom, that the workers were finding molten steel." From: http://www.911myths.com/html/dr_alison_geyh.html

3. Ron Burger, a public health advisor who arrives at Ground Zero on September 12, says that “feeling the heat” and “seeing the molten steel” there reminds him of a volcano.

No qualifications to check the type of metal, and a suspicious amount of selective quoting.

4. According to a member of New York Air National Guard’s 109th Air Wing, who is at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6: “One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers’ remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots.”

Nameless quote.

5. New York firefighters recall “heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel.”

Nameless quote.

6. As late as five months after the attacks, in February 2002, firefighter Joe O’Toole sees a steel beam being lifted from deep underground at Ground Zero, which, he says, “was dripping from the molten steel.”

Unlikely. Molten steel could not be lifted in this manner. Hot steel, glowing steel, sure. Molten? Unlikely.

7. But Dr. Frank Gayle, who leads the steel forensics aspects of NIST’s investigation of the WTC collapses, is quoted as saying: “Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the fire so very intense, a lot of people figured that’s what melted the steel. Indeed it didn’t, the steel did not melt.”

His comment about steel melting is not a witness account to molten steel. He is using the term 'melted' in a descriptive sense.

8 A NY firefighter described molten steel flowing at ground zero, and said it was like a "foundry" or like "lava".

No direct quote, no attribution.

9. An employee of New Jersey's Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue witnessed "Fires burning and molten steel flow[ing] in the pile of ruins still settling beneath her feet."

No name attached to this quote, but it is likely Sarah Atlas. IT is not her quote, but the authors. The author admits he likely got it second hand.
http://www.911myths.com/html/sarah_atlas.html

10. The head of a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reported, "Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel."

Nameles quote, and what a surprise! Its from Alison Geyh again!. This was covered above.

11. A reporter with rare access to the debris at ground zero "descended deep below street level to areas where underground fires still burned and steel flowed in molten streams."

Nameless quote, probably a dupliaction. A reporter is qualified in any case.

12. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration Officer at the Trade Center reported a fire truck 10 feet below the ground that was still burning two weeks after the Tower collapsed, "its metal so hot that it looked like a vat of molten steel."

'Looked like' <> 'was'

13. Greg Fuchek A witness said “In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten steel

Even with the poor heat transferrence of heat in hot steel, I find it unlikely that a steel beam could be motlen on one end, yet crane liftable on the other.

14. The structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, described fires still burning and molten steel still running 21 days after the attacks

THIS IS THE SAME AS #1!

15. A NY Department of Sanitation spokeswoman said "for about two and a half months after the attacks, in addition to its regular duties, NYDS played a major role in debris removal - everything from molten steel beams to human remains...."

The real quote is: "NYDS played a major role in debris removal — everything from molten steel beams to human remains — running trucks back and forth between Ground Zero and Fresh Kills landfill, which was reopened to accommodate the debris.".

I seriously doubt the NYDS was moving actual molten beams. Sorry. THis was hyperbole or a poor description of a bent or weakened beam

16. An expert stated about World Trade Center building 7, "A combination of an uncontrolled fire and the structural damage might have been able to bring the building down, some engineers said. But that would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been PARTLY EVAPORATED in extraordinarily high temperatures". Note that evaporation means conversion from a liquid to a gas; so the steel beams in building 7 or in rubble pile were (arguably) subjected to temperatures high enough to melt and evaporate them.

Who is this expert?

17. Mark loiseaux president of controlled demoltion, Inc. Who was hired for building 7 clean up, said that “molten steel was found at WTC 7”

Mark Loiseaux has stated he never saw the molten steel personally.

18. Bart voorsanger, an archetect hired to save “relics from the rubble” stated about the mult ton “meteorite” that it was a “fused element of molten steel and concrete”

The 'meteorite' has no element of molten steel. Voorsanger has no qualifications to check such a thing. The 'meteorite' has rebar sticking out of it. Laughable.

19. Sarah Atlas “nobodies going to be alive. Fires burned and molten steel flowed in the pile of ruins”

Sarah Atlas again? You are padding your list severely. Same as #9.

20. The president of Tully Construction of Flushing, NY, said he saw pools of "literally molten steel" at Ground Zero.

The only source for Tully's quote is American Free Press.

21. Richard Riggs on the history channel “the fires got very intense down there and actually melted beams where it was molten steel being dug up”

Hyperbole well after the fact.
 
I did find one interesting article regarding a Horizontal I beam at WTC 7.

Dr. Astaneh-Asl's project is one of eight financed by the National Science Foundation to study the World Trade Center disaster. He is also a member of a team assembled by the American Society of Civil Engineers to investigate the trade center site, and the society is dispatching a team to examine damage to the Pentagon.
One piece Dr. Astaneh-Asl saw was a charred horizontal I-beam from 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed from fire eight hours after the attacks. The beam, so named because its cross-section looks like a capital I, had clearly endured searing temperatures. Parts of the flat top of the I, once five-eighths of an inch thick, had vaporized.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E6DC123DF931A35753C1A9679C8B63

How hot did the fires get in order to vaporize 5/8" thick steel?
 
I'm not a truther.... I was shown this article from a pack of them. I was wondering if anyone knew the temps of the fires. :)

(or any other explanation)
 
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I'm not a truther.... I was shown this article from a pack of them. I was wondering if anyone knew the temps of the fires. :)
Never said you were a truther. But anyway are explosives or heat from fires the ONLY reasons possible?
 
I guess that's my question. What caused the vaporization of 5/8" of steel? I know it wasn't therm*te,TNT, C-4, etc.
 
Two points:

1. There is a phenomenon called "metal wastage" in which steels several mm thick are eaten through very rapidly. It is usually caused by hot, highly corrosive, gases or in the presence of reducing agents such as H2 or CO and is therefore often seen in the ductwork of incinerators.

2. I suspect that many people are unaware that the NIST Report presents evidence that the architectural aluminum facade appeared to actually burn at some locations on the towers prior to their collapse. This shows that the WTC aluminum was capable of spontaneous ignition. Burning aluminum would generate very high temperatures, perhaps sufficient to melt steel.
 
"It looks like a bomb explosion - there's very bad damage," he said.

"It's like a war scene really. It was like someone had dropped a bomb next to the train," Brian Frichot said.

"I saw a terrific red flash and felt a jolt like an atom bomb,'' he told a reporter.

'It sounded like a bomb,' passenger says ...

"It sounded like a huge bomb explosion," a woman on the express train told Star News TV. ...

"Passengers said the impact sounded and felt like a bomb exploding.

"It's like a scene from a bomb explosion. The carnage is appalling. You can hear mobile phones going off deep inside the mangled wreckage."

He heard "a loud explosion. I thought it was a bomb. The coach was filled with choking black smoke ... then I lost consciousness."

“I saw the train sitting, at a stop, and I saw the other train coming and they were on the same track. It sounded like a bomb and it felt like an earthquake ..."

GREAT TOPIC!! I just proved that every train crash in history was the result of a bomb!

Super Truthers!
 
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I did find one interesting article regarding a Horizontal I beam at WTC 7.

How hot did the fires get in order to vaporize 5/8" thick steel?

That's not the most interesting question to pose here. The interesting question is, how did the fires get the steel hot enough to vaporise it, yet not hot enough to melt it? If it was still recognisable as an I-beam, clearly it hadn't melted. Therefore, whatever happened to it, it can't have actually been thermally evaporated. Clearly, then, it must have been attacked chemically in addition to being heated; only that or physical abrasion or cutting could explain the removal of material without the beam having reached its melting point. Hence Apollo20's comment on metal wastage. In other words, the term "vaporise" is being used very loosely here.

Dave
 
That's not the most interesting question to pose here. The interesting question is, how did the fires get the steel hot enough to vaporise it, yet not hot enough to melt it? If it was still recognisable as an I-beam, clearly it hadn't melted. Therefore, whatever happened to it, it can't have actually been thermally evaporated. Clearly, then, it must have been attacked chemically in addition to being heated; only that or physical abrasion or cutting could explain the removal of material without the beam having reached its melting point. Hence Apollo20's comment on metal wastage. In other words, the term "vaporise" is being used very loosely here.

Dave

Eutectic melting, as described by NIST, would account for this, right?

As a side note, many troofers aren't aware that NIST talked about this. One idiot at ATS, who's also a civil engineer, has been crying about how NIST never addresses it and he'd like to know since how do we know whether or not he should be spec'ing drywall for the structures he designs since it could be a source of the sulfur, and blah, blah, blah. So I let him make a fool of himself for a while before I corrected him. True to form, this means nothing to a troofer and he just continues on. Sad....

The biggest gripe I get is that NIST SHOULD have found out the source of the sulfur. Of course this assumes that the technology exists to be able to determine from what source the sulfur came from - carpeting, plastics, rubber, drywall, etc.

Does anyone know if this is technologically feasible?
 
Seymour Butz:

The source of sulfur in samples collected from Ground Zero could be determined (in theory at least!) using stable sulfur isotope ratios determined by SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry).
 
I'd guess you're talking about sulfur in general?

I'm asking about specifically determining where the sulfur that interacted with the steel came from.

Still possible?
 
"Fires burned beneath the rubble for the first 4 months of the operation. Helicopters using thermal imaging cameras revealed underground temperatures ranging from 400 to more than 2,800 deg F." [2800F = 1537c and steel melts at 1500c]

Unfortunately there are no thermal footage to accompany this quotation but I am sure its out there and would be eager to see it. It would also be nice to know when the thermal footage was recorded. In any case, such temperatures further confirm that conditions in the rubble pile were consistent with melting steel observed by numerous individuals.
And what do you think that would prove? Any idea?
 
I think thewholesoul left out the metalergy tests. If he could just add those onto the thread it should prove his case.
 
thewholesoul,

your next step should be to calculate how much thermite would be needed to produce the "molten steel" at GZ (because that's where you're going with this, right?).

So....you need enough thermite to take down the WTC and leave the steel molten for weeks after the attack.
 
thewholesoul,

your next step should be to calculate how much thermite would be needed to produce the "molten steel" at GZ (because that's where you're going with this, right?).

So....you need enough thermite to take down the WTC and leave the steel molten for weeks after the attack.

I did calculate that once... ~ 7000 tons of Thermite would be required to have molten steel weeks later.
 
I did calculate that once... ~ 7000 tons of Thermite would be required to have molten steel weeks later.
Really? I would be really interested to see those calculations Ben since the thermite reaction is a very short duration and I also would like to know how much molten steel you think would remain weeks later.
 
I did calculate that once... ~ 7000 tons of Thermite would be required to have molten steel weeks later.

And, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the on-going thermite reactions be rather bright and obvious?
 
TESTIMONY of MOLTEN STEEL

All the testimony can be found in the following links:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a091901astanehfinds
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-was-there-molten-metal-under.html
http://wtc.nist.gov/media/AE911Truth-NIST-Written-Submission12-18-07.pdf
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/moltensteel.html
http://8real.proboards104.com/index.cgi?board=buildings&action=print&thread=2
http://tobefree.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/molten-steel-found-at-ground-zero-weeks-after-911/

1. Leslie Robertson, one of the structural engineers responsible for the design of the WTC, “21 days after the attacks, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running”

2. Alison Geyh, who heads a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reports: “Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel.”

3. Ron Burger, a public health advisor who arrives at Ground Zero on September 12, says that “feeling the heat” and “seeing the molten steel” there reminds him of a volcano.

4. According to a member of New York Air National Guard’s 109th Air Wing, who is at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6: “One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers’ remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots.”

5. New York firefighters recall “heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel.”

6. As late as five months after the attacks, in February 2002, firefighter Joe O’Toole sees a steel beam being lifted from deep underground at Ground Zero, which, he says, “was dripping from the molten steel.”

7. But Dr. Frank Gayle, who leads the steel forensics aspects of NIST’s investigation of the WTC collapses, is quoted as saying: “Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the fire so very intense, a lot of people figured that’s what melted the steel. Indeed it didn’t, the steel did not melt.”

8 A NY firefighter described molten steel flowing at ground zero, and said it was like a "foundry" or like "lava".

9. An employee of New Jersey's Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue witnessed "Fires burning and molten steel flow[ing] in the pile of ruins still settling beneath her feet."

10. The head of a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reported, "Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel."

11. A reporter with rare access to the debris at ground zero "descended deep below street level to areas where underground fires still burned and steel flowed in molten streams."

12. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration Officer at the Trade Center reported a fire truck 10 feet below the ground that was still burning two weeks after the Tower collapsed, "its metal so hot that it looked like a vat of molten steel."

13. Greg Fuchek A witness said “In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten steel

14. The structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, described fires still burning and molten steel still running 21 days after the attacks

15. A NY Department of Sanitation spokeswoman said "for about two and a half months after the attacks, in addition to its regular duties, NYDS played a major role in debris removal - everything from molten steel beams to human remains...."

16. An expert stated about World Trade Center building 7, "A combination of an uncontrolled fire and the structural damage might have been able to bring the building down, some engineers said. But that would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been PARTLY EVAPORATED in extraordinarily high temperatures". Note that evaporation means conversion from a liquid to a gas; so the steel beams in building 7 or in rubble pile were (arguably) subjected to temperatures high enough to melt and evaporate them.

17. Mark loiseaux president of controlled demoltion, Inc. Who was hired for building 7 clean up, said that “molten steel was found at WTC 7”

18. Bart voorsanger, an archetect hired to save “relics from the rubble” stated about the mult ton “meteorite” that it was a “fused element of molten steel and concrete”

19. Sarah Atlas “nobodies going to be alive. Fires burned and molten steel flowed in the pile of ruins”

20. The president of Tully Construction of Flushing, NY, said he saw pools of "literally molten steel" at Ground Zero.

21. Richard Riggs on the history channel “the fires got very intense down there and actually melted beams where it was molten steel being dug up”

Video footage of testimony
#8 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3060923273573302287&q
#21 http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ogrupgt4mI&NR=1


RELICS FROM THE RUBBLE

1)The meteorite http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=xbMu2w7fSG8&feature=related http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=swH1WaIMkNc&feature=related

2) FEMA metalurgical examination sample 1 and NIST’s sample K-16 photos (p312 and 317). Both FEMA smaple 1 and NIST sample K-16 are in fact the same steel sample.

Relics from the rubble prove that temperatures were suffucient to melt. There is dispute over wheter K-16 was evaporated by exposure to high temperatures over a long period of time or a short period of time and whether this evaporation occured during or after the collapse. But there can be no dispute over the meteorite since steel must first melt in order to fuse with another element or material.

THERMAL IMAGES
I came across this post #443 by Dr.Greening (Apollo20) here He provides the following quotation from the following source: Spadafora, R. “Firefighter and safety and health issues at the World Trade Center Site.” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 42, no.6 (2002): p532

"Fires burned beneath the rubble for the first 4 months of the operation. Helicopters using thermal imaging cameras revealed underground temperatures ranging from 400 to more than 2,800 deg F." [2800F = 1537c and steel melts at 1500c]

Unfortunately there are no thermal footage to accompany this quotation but I am sure its out there and would be eager to see it. It would also be nice to know when the thermal footage was recorded. In any case, such temperatures further confirm that conditions in the rubble pile were consistent with melting steel observed by numerous individuals. I am assuming that surface temperatures of 1537c would mean that temperatures below were even greater.

It should also be noted that although thermal images from USGS did not show such temperatures, molten steel was still found under the somewhat cooler temperature ratings by USGS nonetheless.


As you know, the molten metal cooking in the rubble has never been identified as steel. Your dishonest use of the bogus quote from Mark Loizeaux suggests that you are not making an innocent mistake. We've been through this many times. Loizeaux has explained that he wasn't in a position to see any molten metal and would not have been able to identify it as steel in any case.

Really, it's over. The bell has rung. The buzzer has sounded.
 
Really? I would be really interested to see those calculations Ben since the thermite reaction is a very short duration and I also would like to know how much molten steel you think would remain weeks later.

Didn't keep them.

I assumed you had a spherical shell that would contain the 7000 tons of Thermite and that all of the energy expended would be in that ball from the start. Then I assumed that it would harden only around its surface going inward like a planet does, and cool at the rate heat could leak out of that sphere (which was not that large due to the density) into ambient air and given those assumptions, there was ~ one ton of molten metal at the center in three weeks when I had about 7000 tons of molten metal to start with.

This was a best case; In the real site it would have been scattered and would have cooled a lot quicker.
 
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