Quote Originally Posted by CanGro
Q1:Has anyone acctually ever seen steel buckle under xtreme heat

A1:Yes i have, when steel is heated up to an xtreme where it is so hot that it buckles, it buckles to the left or the right. It doesnt compact into its self, in other words goes straight down.

Now how many of you did the copper and steel buckle test in science, cause i know for 1 i did and i remeber the effects of the way it bends. For steel to colapse in on its self it has to be heated to a point that its glowing so hot that it becomes a liquid. Now im affraid to say the way those buildings collapsed is not a direct link to fuel or any other substance burning. For a building of such magnitude to acctually colapse on itself the steel structurs have to have some sort of chemical reaction for the steel to split and collapse.
First of all, I think I'm going to trust the engineers and firemen over someone who writes the word "extreme" as "xtreme". You can't just equate some high school experiment with heated steel trusses inside a damaged structure that has thousands of tons of material on top of it, and claim to know definitively that all the engineers' explanations have been disproven. If you actually understood the basic architecture of the towers, you would readily be able to see why they could not have fallen any way but straight down.

http://www.debunking911.com/towers.htm
(Thanks to Breukelen advocaat for the link)