Take a look at some of the damaged remnants and tell me how these damage modes were caused:
The Astaneh/Morris photo is from a piece of WTC 7. All others are from WTC 1 or 2.
Yes, pixie dust. And photomicrographs of these "thinned" pieces which show phases of once-hot sulfur and iron eating into the grain boundaries of the steel:
Maybe, just maybe, it was more than your average fire. The thinned truss rod, sample C-115, according to analysis, shows no decarburization zone, so whatever happened to it, it wasn't caused by combustion flames, like those produced in an office fire. Much less, could an office fire get hot enough to ever do something like this in the first place. Whatever was happening was taking place over a short period of time as evidenced by this micrograph of C-115:
Not as one would expect from a fire licking steel and heating the entire piece up to the point of failure. No, this was a surface attack. And who knows what happened to those other pieces, but it certainly doesn't look like something that an office fire can do.
So, not fairies or hopes, but raw facts from the best sources possible, without editorial license taken by anyone else on my behalf. And we're left with many questions that cry out for answering.
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