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Title: Hilarious Blacksmith Uses Science To Shut Down Insane ‘Fire Can’t Melt Steel’ 9/11 Truthers
Source: The Federalist/Liberty's flame
URL Source: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=43753&Disp=All
Published: Dec 19, 2015
Author: Some idiot on the internets
Post Date: 2015-12-22 15:07:46 by Bill D Berger
Keywords: None
Views: 2416
Comments: 37

Give this man a medal. In just two minutes, blacksmith Trenton Tye of Purgatory Ironworks uses science to hilarious effect to mock 9/11 truthers who insist the 2001 terrorist attacks were a conspiracy. And why are these nutters convinced the whole thing was an inside job? Because fire can’t melt steel (Seriously, read through that entire 9/11 conspiracy theory thread. It is amazing.)

Tye, a professional metalworker based in Georgia, has had enough. He filmed the following video to prove to science-hating 9/11 conspiracy mongers once and for all that structural steel will absolutely lose its structural integrity if it gets too hot:

“So I am taking time out of my busy day to try to put to rest one of the more moronic things I have seen on the Internet lately, and that’s saying something,” Tye tells the camera. “‘Jet fuel only burns at 1,500 degrees and since steel melts at 2,700 degrees, 9/11 was a conspiracy!'”

“What I am upset about is the retarded metallurgical things that you guys are saying. I’m not arguing the facts,” Tye says. “Jet fuel does in fact burn at 1,500 degrees. Some carbon steels will start melting at 2,300 degrees. But if you hold this up as a reason for conspiracy, you are an idiot!”

To prove his point, Tye compared the structural strength of a room-temperature piece of steel to the strength of one that had been heated to 1,800 degrees in his workshop’s furnace.

“It’s very hot, but not melted,” Tye notes by tapping the piece of steel on an anvil.

“Half-inch solid steel. Check it out,” Tye says as he bends the solid steel rod back and forth using only his pinkie finger. “It’s a freakin’ noodle!”

“Your argument is invalid. Get over it!” Tye exclaims as he drops the mic by dropping the glowing steel rod. “Find a job!”

We salute you, Trenton Tye. You are a real American hero. Godspeed.


Poster Comment:

The usual cast of simpletons over at Liberty's Flame are hailing this ass-clown as an "expert" in building construction and structural design and that this video proves once and for all that the Official Narrative is true.

Kevin Ryan has an excellent rebuttal here :

Propaganda Can’t Melt Steel Beams

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#2. To: Bill D Berger (#0)

I've tried to tell the conspironuts here many times fire does not melt steel but it softens it - a lot. That comes from being raised in a steel-mill town.

Turtle  posted on  2015-12-22   15:43:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Turtle, randge (#2)

I've tried to tell the conspironuts here many times fire does not melt steel but it softens it - a lot.

Sure does.

600°F doesn't do shit to steel

Yield strength is reduced by about 10%, which isn't much. Above that it drops fast.

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2015-12-22   19:02:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#30. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#21) (Edited)

Use yer noodle though.

There were some 48 or so massive core columns (in addition to many more exterior columns).

Lookit the cross section. It would take lots more than liquid fuel than the mere tens of thousands of gallons burning in an oxygen starved environment for a short time to heat so much steel to 600 degrees, which BTW is a doubtful upper limit to the temp that the burning fuel might have attained.

Jet Fuel

How much jet fuel was in the Twin Towers?

randge  posted on  2015-12-22 19:37:45 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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