To: David Howe who wrote (13573 ) 8/17/2006 1:00:47 AM From: Don Earl Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039 RE: "Obviously 1000's of gallons of jet fuel would be more than enough to cause the failure of the steel." Has this board been invaded by Californians? Ya know? The place where everyone substitutes ignorant opinions for informed research? Jet fuel, aka kerosene, does not get hot enough to cause the kind of structural failure seen at the WTC. Too much redundant strength was engineered into the design for any of the columns to fail in fuel or office debris fires, even if those fires were burning in an oxygen rich environment, which films and photos show was not the case. Additionally, the video evidence shows virtually all of the fuel was consumed within seconds of impact in the initial fireballs. For the sake of argument, let's assume what fuel remained burned hot enough to melt and ignite the aluminum bodies of the planes, which could generate enough heat to seriously weaken steel. The chrome moly steel slowly begins to buckle as it heats up, and the building settles gently onto the un-compromised section of the building below. Is that what YOU saw on TV? If you saw what the rest of us saw, all holy hell was blown out of the buildings, with pulverized concrete being violently ejected laterally hundreds of feet. By noon on 9/11, 5 years ago, everyone in the world knew they were watching a building being demolished in an engineered implosion. They just didn't know how that was possible. Why is it you now believe it's possible melt one floor of a building's structure with kerosene, and cause said building, designed to withstand gravity's worst, to collapse at the speed of a free falling object? Even Californians should have better sense, especially considering the fact the Bush Crime Family's first priority was to destroy all the evidence.