Hi Gam:
Here's another question for you eots.
The folly in your supposition is that asking 1000 questions makes the "Building Fires Did It" Case. Gam does NOT even begin to understand even the basics about Controlled Demolition, so he is reduced to asking question after question after question . . .
If thermite supposedly caused the steel to melt in the first place during the supposed "demolition", then what kept it molten for all that time until it was able to be seen by "eyewitnesses"?
Gam is talking about these molten metal pools:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmMLDG87Sak]WTC Molten Metal[/ame]
Here is the deal: WTC-7 (like all skyscrapers) was built upon massive concrete pads with anchor bolts holding massive red-iron columns that hold beams that hold bar-joists that carry concrete slabs. The massive beams are bolted and welded to the columns on floor after floor after floor going skyward for 47 stories. All of the massive red-iron connections were 'cut' using thermate shape charges that melted the steel instantly at more than 2500 degrees. However, the thermate residue/froth dripped STRAIGHT DOWN like the acid blood in the 'Alien' Movies.
The 2500-degree Celsius molten metal accumulated in the basement under each column line, until the ground around the molten pools melted into silica glass; which contained the enriched sulfur/thermate metal within the glass-like containers. The demolition workers then breached the molten metal compartments weeks later, which exposed the molten metal to the open air.
The molten metal was contained inside the glass-like molten silica subcompartments like the coffee in your thermos. These molten metal pools could not form in any typical 'building fire' situation, because those fires simply do not burn with sufficient heat energy to melt 2800-degree Fahrenheit steel.
According to this photo from Terral, notice the "thermite froth" on the columns? Why did this particular bit of MOLTEN STEEL/THERMITE FROTH harden right below the "cut" and not drip down to pool along the lower levels?
The molten metal had low enough mass and density to stick to the side of the massive column. Imagine a 'beam' cut at 90 degrees (perpendicular) to the ground 'and' then multiply that by 47 stories 'and' then realize that some massive girders stood 9-feet tall!
So again, what maintained the high temperatures? Are you suggesting that therite was still burning a day/days after the collapse?
This should be interesting...
No. The 2500-degree Celsius Sulfur-enriched Thermate Molten Metal Pools accumulated in the basement of all three WTC Skycrapers.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wVLeKwSkXA]Dr. Steven Jones Explains[/ame]
GL,
Terral