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Default GW isn't going to help the Great Lakes much this year..

Wayne.B wrote in
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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:12:14 -0500, Martin Baxter
wrote:

Load of hooey anyway, you don't need that great a temperature to soften
steel. You don't even need thermite in a Bessemer converter, coke,
regular air and shot of oxygen will do just fine.


Yes, and you don't need an outside source of oxygen either. Steel can
and does soften enough to lose its' structural properties from
ordinary fires.


Before 9/11/2001, not a single steel reinforce building every collapsed
from a fire, even fires that went on for days consuming the whole building!
The structure still stood. So much for that nonsense.

On 9/11/2001, THREE steel reinforced buildings mysteriously collapsed,
straight down into their own footprint, at free-fall speeds....in one day.

Not a single steel reinforced building since 9/11/2001 has collapsed as a
results of fire, even fires that went on for days consuming the whole
building! The structure still stood....and you don't find that at all
curious?

http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/.../infernos.html
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/anal...are/fires.html


http://www.news24.com/News24/World/N...661730,00.html
IT DIDN'T COLLAPSE!