If they were so efficient that steel was recycled in the first seven days it would have been a very, small percentage of the steel from the building. It's a non issue.This is your personal belief. Trading opinions and beliefs are not going to move this forward. they did not have access to the steel that was no longer at the scrap yards.
Could you show me some evidence of this please. It is certainly possible I would just like a source.it is a fact that steel had been recycled before Astaneh-asl and his small team were ready to start their inspections.
Hilarious. By actually looking at the context and not just cherry picking a couple of words you accuse me of dismissing data. How about the fact that Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, who specializes in studying structural damage done by earthquakes and terrorist bombings, found no evidence for explosives and believes that the fire caused the collapse. Are you dismissing that?it "sounds like" you want to dismiss this data in order to protect your belief.
He actually looked over 40,000 tons of scrap. http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/10/47357
So your attempts to imply that all the important steel was gone in seven days are absurd.
Were traces of explosives found?There are many witnessess to molten iron in the basements and in the cleanup operations. molten iron thermite residue was found in abundance in the dust - the molten iron in the dust was a major marker used to identify wtc dust from background dust.
he says this too:
"One piece Dr. Astaneh-Asl saw was a charred horizontal I-beam from 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed from fire eight hours after the attacks. 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.
Less clear was whether the beam had been charred after the collapse, as it lay in the pile of burning rubble, or whether it had been engulfed in the fire that led to the building's collapse, which would provide a more telling clue.
The answer lay in the beam's twisted shape. As weight pushed down, the center portion had buckled outward.
''This tells me it buckled while it was attached to the column,'' not as it fell, Dr. Astaneh-Asl said, adding, ''It had burned first, then buckled.''"
(add 3 w's)query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E6DC123DF931A35753C1A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
Would you agree that if traces of explosives are found, then there is no need to speculate which columns were cut, how the explosives were detonated etc, if our intention is to determinte whether explosives were used?
If you find traces of gunpowder or traces of RDX it is not necessary to find out what gun was used, what columns were cut, what detonator was used. A discovery of explosives is enough to know that explosives were used, do you agree?