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Poking holes in WTC2 conspiracies

Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 07:58:35 AM PDT

And no, I am not one who believes it was a pure 'false flag' black op, but damm it nagging questions of exactly how it happened have been surfacing at regular intervals. Well below is a real world example of how steel can collapse just by heat.

A tanker truck carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline had overturned at 3:41 a.m. and burst into flames on the 50-foot-high ramp connecting westbound Interstate 80 to southbound Interstate 880. Within minutes, the ramp above it -- connecting eastbound I-80 to eastbound I-580 -- collapsed in the 3,000-degree cauldron.

this was a single tanker with normal gasoline, not hundreds of tons of high-octane jet fuel, and the steel softened and it collapsed basically straight down.

Rodriguez, who was called by his supervisors and ordered to evacuate the sewage plant, said that before the collapse, he watched the truck's driver stagger away from the burning mass -- a silhouette in the orange glow of flames.

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The driver escaped just before the overhead ramp collapsed -- the fire had melted its steel undergirders. When the smoke cleared around daybreak Sunday, one ramp was draped like a comforter over the lower connector.

they estimate the heat got to about 3,000 degree's and that steel loses half it's strength at 1,000 degrees. From what I can see this is as close to a 'control' for the WTC collapse. It is out in the open so the mechanism can be observed directly, and there are little or no politics to interfere in the investigation.

While this still does not give a good solid answer to bldg 7 (that is a big mess of even more questions) I do think it gives credence to the heat collapse as opposed to the controled demolition by agents from (indsert favorite eeee-vil group).

Am I reading to much into this or is it a valid comparison?

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