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   From: dave-no_spam@unixhome.net   
      
   "Tom P"  wrote in message   
   news:IcuMj.105524$Ft5.51280@newsfe15.lga...   
   > Canuck57 wrote:   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> Why should there not be a thorough investigation?   
   >>   
   >> Because there is no need to.  The building behaved as expected.   
   >>   
   >> I am sure if I dumped 10,000 gallons of aircraft fuel in one splash   
   >> around your house and lit it, neither you or your house would have much   
   >> left in 5 minutes but ashes.  Or perhaps hit your house with 164,000   
   >> pounds of reinforced aluminium, steal loaded with fuel at 300-400 mph   
   >> there would not be much left.   
   >>   
   >> The effect was simple, the planes were in effect very large flying bombs   
   >> used by cowardly terrorists declaring war on our way of life.   
   >   
   > If you dumped 10,000 gallons of aircraft fuel on my house, it would spill   
   > all over the place and not stay on just one floor. There would also be   
   > huge orange flames, not a smoldering fire. Here's a fire....   
   > http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spain_fire_2005.html   
   >   
   > In the ashes we would still find a scorched refrigerator and stove... not   
   > a melted lump of metal. My oven doesn't melt when it is turned on.   
      
   Two things missing in Madrid.  It wasn't started with the addition of 5000   
   gallons of accelerant in one split second, so the fire only had internal   
   combustibles.  Simply having most of the windows intact would suppress the   
   fire, not so when a jet liner tries to go through.  Next issue.  The   
   building started with a fire and no structural damages.   
      
   When you splash that much accelerant, going well past 1000C isn't hard to   
   believe.  Madrid only had the building contents burning at a much slower   
   rate and is to believed to only gone to 800C peek.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm   
      
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