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:3667 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.
“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.
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.
You could live three lifetimes in a steel town, Turtle, and you still wouldn't know squat.
I knew when I opened up this stupid video that the first thing I'd hear would be the draft of the forge burner. That's where you get your 1800°F.
When the aircraft hit the WTC, the jet fuel, basically kerosene, was not oxygenated by a draft. Kerosene, at standard atmospheric pressure, burns with an open flame temperature of around 300°C. That's less than 600°F.
600°F doesn't do shit to steel, particularly in the case of the massive heat sinks constituted by the huge interior support columns that held those structures up.
And as has been pointed out time and again, and is still worth repeating, most of the organic liquid fuel consumed in the break up of the aircraft spilled out and was consumed exterior to the WTC buildings in the fireballs seen from numerous camera angles that day.
Is the fireball the fumes burning or the actual fuel.
Whatever was burning up there was oxygen starved due to the black, smoky (aka cold) fires, unless they had a bunch of old tires stored up there.
I've tried to get metals to soften in really hot camp/bonfires. Never happens.
I guess it should be noted that I'm familiar with gas, MIG, TIG and arc welding as well as oxy/aceteyline, arc and plasma cutting, and am skilled in the use of an oxygen lance, but I'm probably wrong, right?
Edit: The dude who did the video is a clown. You should see the tricks I can do in my shop, Dad.