A 9/11 Debunker Just Unwittingly Proved Controlled Demolition Theory

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9/11 debunker unwittingly proves the controlled demolition theory to be true

A recent 9/11 debunking video made by a blacksmith named Trenton Tye, has received an unprecedented amount of mainstream media attention, in which Tye attempts to debunk the theory that the twin towers were destroyed by controlled demolition.

Tye’s attempt to rubbish claims made by “9/11 truthers” that the towers were brought down by a controlled demolition has backfired, as the group Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) debunked the debunker in an excellent Facebook post:

Tye’s attempt to disprove controlled demolition by heating a half-inch piece of steel to 1,800°F and bending it like a “noodle” is way off. He seems to think the controlled demolition argument goes like this, “Fire can’t melt steel, so the buildings couldn’t have collapsed from fire.” He couldn’t be more mistaken.

The only reason that melting steel is discussed at all is because government officials, engineers, first responders, and others observed large amounts of molten metal (requiring temperatures of more than 2,800°F) in the debris of all three buildings.

Tye’s sixth-grade-level demonstration that structural steel loses strength at 1,800°F does nothing to address the presence of molten metal at Ground Zero. If anything, Tye proves that the fires in the World Trade Center could not have generated the molten metal that witnesses saw. What did? The only plausible explanation is thermite, an incendiary that can be used to cut through structural steel.

Putting aside the molten metal, Tye’s demonstration is wholly irrelevant for the simple reason that the fires in the World Trade Center could not have heated the structure anywhere near as high as the 1,800°F to which Tye heated his piece of steel using a furnace.

Jet fuel fires reach temperatures of around 1,500°F only under optimal conditions. In open air conditions like the WTC buildings, they burn at around 600°F. Even according to the government agency that investigated the disaster, there is no evidence that any of the steel was heated to the point where it would lose its strength.

There have been literally hundreds of hotter, larger, longer-lasting fires in steel-frame high-rises over the last century, and never has one caused the total collapse of a building. Tye’s simplistic logic implies that many of these infernos should have led to a total collapse. Of course, none has — and that also goes for the three steel-frame high-rises that were destroyed on 9/11.

Hi-Rise structure fires engulfed

That this YouTube video has become an overnight sensation testifies to the alarming lack of journalistic rigor and scientific acumen with which the media has approached the debate surrounding the World Trade Center destruction on 9/11 — and to the rampant misinformation that has followed.

6 Comments

  1. It takes more belief to believe in a God than this truth of 9/11…but so many say they believe in God but not simple science…now who is lying to who?

  2. It takes more belief to believe in a God than this truth of 9/11…but so many say they believe in God but not simple science…now who is lying to who?

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