sayit said:
I don't play by your 9/11 "Truther" rule book and I have no interest in buying your DVDs or T-shirts, Princess. If you or Eots actually wanted to know what brought down WTC7, you would have looked it upby now.
The rules you don't play by are those of honest discussion. It's what makes you and your kind so transparent.
Here's what Eots actually said:
eots said:
according to your NIST report damage was not factor in the collapse of wtc 7..you have read the NIST report right ?
Now
here's what NIST said:
"...
The heat from the uncontrolled fires caused steel floor beams and girders to thermally expand, leading to a chain of events that caused a key structural column to fail. The failure of this structural column then initiated a fire-induced progressive collapse of the entire building...."
"...
NIST carefully considered the condition of the SFRM installation in WTC 7, including the applied thickness and evidence of gaps or damage in the SFRM. The SFRM in WTC 7 was modeled as undamaged except in the southwest region of the building where there was debris impact damage.4 A uniform thickness equal to the specified SFRM thickness was used for the finite element thermal analyses of WTC 7 because: 1) the variability in the SFRM thickness was small, 2) no evidence of significant damage to the SFRM was found, and 3) small areas of SFRM damage would not have affected the thermal or structural response of the structural framing system."
"...
The debris from WTC 1 caused structural damage to the southwest region of WTC 7—severing seven exterior columns—but this structural damage did not initiate the collapse. The fires initiated by the debris, rather than the structural damage that resulted from the impacts, initiated the building's collapse after the fires grew and spread to the northeast region after several hours. The debris impact caused no damage to the spray-applied fire-resistive material that was applied to the steel columns, girders, and beams except in the immediate vicinity of the severed columns...."
True, according to NIST, the fires that eventually spread to the northeast portion of the building were ignited by the debris from Tower 1, but the structural damage itself, which was caused to the southwest region of Building 7 played no role in the initiation of the collapse.
Now what do
you have say?