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  • Astaneh-Asl said that steel flanges "had been reduced from an inch thick to paper thin." [3]
  • At a recycling center in New Jersey, he saw 10-ton steel beams from the towers that "looked like giant sticks of twisted licorice." [4] He showed the San Francisco Chronicle a "banana-shaped, rust-colored piece of steel" that had somehow "twisted like toffee during the terrorist attack." [5]
  • He noted the way steel from the WTC had bent at several connection points that had joined the floors to the vertical columns. He described the connections as being smoothly warped, saying, "If you remember the Salvador Dali paintings with the clocks that are kind of melted--it's kind of like that." He added, "That could only happen if you get steel yellow hot or white hot--perhaps around 2,000 degrees." [6]
  • In an interview in 2007, Astaneh-Asl recalled, "I saw melting of girders in [the] World Trade Center." [7]
  • He found a foot-long twisted shard of steel that was "like a piece of bread, but it was high-strength steel." He commented, "I haven't seen anything like this [before]." [8]
  • He came across "severely scorched [steel] members from 40 or so floors below the points of impact [by the planes]." [9]
  • The fireproofing that had been used to protect the WTC steel also showed evidence of extreme conditions. In some places it had "melted into a glassy residue." [10]
  • Astaneh-Asl saw a charred I-beam from WTC Building 7--a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed late in the afternoon of 9/11, even though no plane hit it. "The beam, so named because its cross-section looks like a capital I, had clearly endured searing temperatures. Parts of the flat top of the I, once five-eighths of an inch thick, had vaporized." [11]

These observations indicate that the World Trade Center steel was subjected to very high temperatures. Yet, while postulating that the towers collapsed due to fire (and without the use of explosives), even Thomas Eagar--an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--admitted, "The temperature of the fire at the WTC was not unusual, and it was most definitely not capable of melting steel." [12] One must conclude that the phenomena observed by Astaneh-Asl are therefore highly suspicious. ...

Engineer Sees Evidence of Extreme Temperatures in WTC Steel

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How to square the circle? by Keith Mothersson on Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:00:05 PM
Important points, Keith by Andrew Johnson on Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:20:35 PM
Oops by Andrew Johnson on Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:26:40 PM
There are no "Directed Energy Weapons" involved in this. by Harold Smith on Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:19:23 PM
Look at Judy Woods' website by mrk * on Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:55:44 PM
you have said this in other threads by CB Brooklyn on Saturday, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:17:39 PM
another idea... by CB Brooklyn on Saturday, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:00:46 PM
It's too bad the Dr. Judy Wood site has incorrect assertions by csnet on Sunday, Mar 2, 2008 at 4:30:48 PM
Too Strident by Jerry Jones on Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:49:44 PM
Not strident enough... by Len Hart on Saturday, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:18:15 AM
9/11 Information by CB Brooklyn on Saturday, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:20:56 PM
I can handle the truth by brisa on Sunday, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:32:01 AM