Do you have anything to back up your claims? The NIST report did not say the steel melted. If I missed it post the evidence. What is left is what the NIST report describes. There is no evidence to support thermite. None. As far as previous fires, the fire protection had not been blown off as it had been due to the planes crashing into the buildings. This was mentioned before on metabunk and the NIST report.
To be getting on with, here are some of your 'proper' mainstream 'real scientists' who will bend over backwards (and any other direction) to accomodate NIST and back up the OS BS.
We have had years of 'well what do you expect, fire will melt steel', 'you are idiots if you don't understand that'.
You cannot have it both ways. Time to wake up and face the truth. Your wonderful OS scientists do not have a clue what they are talking about or they are lieing their heads off to keep the right side of the authorities.
I wonder how many of these erstwhile intellectuals are now retracting or have retracted what they stated so emphatically?
http://911review.com/coverup/fantasy/melting.htmlSteel-Melting Fires
In the wake of the attack, numerous experts asserted that fires in the Twin Towers melted their structural steel.
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Intense heat melted steel supports in Trade Center[/TD]
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[TD] Although the impact of the jetliners was strong, it was the heat from the explosion that most likely caused the buildings to collapse, experts say.
Richard Ebeltoft, a structural engineer and University of Arizona architecture lecturer, speculated that flames fueled by thousands of gallons of aviation fuel melted the building's steel supports.[/TD]
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[TD] Hyman Brown, a University of Colorado civil engineering professor and the Trade Center's construction manager [sic], speculated that flames fuelled by thousands of litres of aviation fuel melted steel supports.
"This building would have stood had a plane or a force caused by a plane smashed into it," he said. "But steel melts, and 90,850 litres of aviation fluid melted the steel. Nothing is designed or will be designed to withstand that fire."[/TD]
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Design Choice for Towers Saved Lives[/TD]
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[TD] Each tower was struck by a passenger aeroplane, hijacked by suicidal terrorists, but remained upright for nearly an hour. Eventually raging fires melted the supporting steel struts, but the time delay allowed hundreds of people to escape.[/TD]
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[TD] "It was the fire that killed the buildings. There's nothing on earth that could survive those temperatures with that amount of fuel burning." aid structural engineer Chris Wise.
"The columns would have melted, the floors would have melted and eventually they would have collapsed one on top of each other."[/TD]
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[TD] [Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Newcastle, John Knapton] told BBC News Online: "The world trade centre was designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707, but that was unusual... we are trying to discover why they [ the towers ] collapsed and what needs doing to rebuild them."
"The buildings survived the impact and the explosion but not the fire, and that is the problem."
"The 35 tonnes of aviation fuel will have melted the steel... all that can be done is to place fire resistant material around the steel and delay the collapse by keeping the steel cool for longer."[/TD]
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Eduardo Kausel proposed an alternative failure explanation that he acknowledged was independently developed by Zdenek Bazant, a professor at Northwestern University. "I believe that the intense heat softened or melted the structural elements—floor trusses and columns— so that they became like chewing gum, and that was enough to trigger the collapse," he said.