Bustaballs said:
Fine, I'll play your game. First I never said they weren't professionals, (Hell a hooker can be "professional") I said they were not credible experts in the related field.
The first is a fairly poorly put together website. It's a faculty page by the way, not an official school page. The author of which contradicts himself. First he says that the burning jet fuel itself could only reach 1000 degrees and could not melt steel (true). He then goes on to state facts that at 600 degrees, the steel would still be at 50%tenstile strength (also true). Can you see yet where his facts already weaken his own position? Let me hold your hand through it:
If steel is at ~80% at 450 degrees and ~50% at 650 degrees, what do you think the strength of the steel is at at 900-1000 degrees? Again, what most of these "credible conspiracy theorists" always seem to forget is that steel does not have to become enitrely liquid before it can no longer perform it's function.
The author by the way, is considered an expert in solar and nuclear energies. Certainly a brilliant guy, but hardly an expert in engineering or demolition. This is the same guy responsible for "cold fusion" theories and is the butt of jokes in the fusion community but certainly is the inspiration for several bad hollywood scripts. Furthermore, to find an expert in the
related field, we have to go no further than across the BYU campuss to Dr. Miller, Dir and chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering department:
Dr Miller said:
I think without exception, the structural engineering professors in our department are not in agreement with the claims made by Jones in his paper, and they don't think there is accuracy and validity to these claims
Again, melting a pop can and pouring it on steel yelling "see? no explosion! the Government did it!!" is hardly "Hard evidence".
The second link is not a professional at all! He's a hack! A Kid with a video camera and a theory and nothing else! He laughs at real experts and misquotes other to support his "theory". Here's a real expert by the way, quoted within that article:
Eduardo Kausel, an M.I.T. professor of civil and environmental engineering, spoke as follows to a panel of Boston area civil and structural engineers: "I believe that the intense heat softened or melted the structural elements -- floor trusses and columns -- so that they became like chewing gum, and that was enough to trigger the collapse."
Notice the bolded part? That's the credentials of an expert in a related field. How does your "professional" respond? He basically says "nu-uh!" and moves on. What a moving argument! I'm convinced now! The government MUST be responsible because some clown with a website said "nu-uh" to an MIT professor's analysis! Seriously, what kind of lemming buys into that bullshit?
The third link I already addressed. The author is Jerry Russell, Ph.D. Sounds pretty impressive doesn't it? Allow me to finish the title for you: Jerry Russell, Ph.D. in
Psychology from the University of Oregon. Unless he's going to tell me how the beams would not have broke under pressure because of
emotional and
psychological stress, then I don't really consider anything he has to say on the matter as being an EXPERT opinion.