Originally posted by spgoode:
Originally posted by SteedaSVTââ??¢:
the plane had something like 300k pounds of few...

it can't melt a i beam? But it can topple a 111story building X2?


It can and did. I'd like to see a comparison between the btu's of the fuel in one of those planes and some common missiles. I'd bet it's more like the btu's in a shock and awe style MOAB.




Burning fuel and high explosives are apples & oranges. A bomb under combustion doesn't linger and coat, it's a quick and extremely energetic blast and shockwave. Try finding some videos of bombs going off in Iraq...they look NOTHING like the Hollywood fireball, which usually is a visual effect caused by lighting off lots of gasoline. I think there's probably a more valid means of comparing the impact energy of the airplane and what a bomb would release, but in the tower collapses, you've got to factor in a double-whammy effect of a significant shock to the buildings structure at the moment of impact, and *then* the vertical dousing of fuel that was either on fire or soon to be.

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