Reply #130: maha's sophistry

[paxamor]

>The scrap was taken to various places for examination, but most of the intact
>pieces are accounted for. There are various plans for the steel, including
>using it to make a battleship. Some of it is still being examined by the
>structural engineering guys.

No the scrap was not accounted for -- it was shipped to blast furnaces in China and India with no forensic examination.
The "various places" it was taken for "examination" was Fishkills Landfill, and that was mostly the scrap that was too small to be worth recycling.

Well at least the (unpaid volunteer BPAT) "structural engineering guys" got to save 55 pieces of steel out of hundreds of thousands of pieces. Of course they don't even know what part of the buildings those souvineers came from.
What a serious investigation!

As for NIST, look, they have a whole piece of steel. How impressive!

http://wtc.nist.gov/media/gallery.htm

>bpilgrim got hold of one crackpot magazine article and has created an
>entire religion around it.

Maha's slamming of Fire Engineering Magazine and Bill Manning speaks volumes about his character.

Just as an example of the kind of dishonesty that runs through Maha's posts, in the previous, now closed thread, his last post denies the well-documented fact that the vast majority of the steel was recycled.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=211010&mesg_id=219131&page=

He asserts the steel is still being studied, but the NIST article he cites,

http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/newsfromnist_kolskybar.htm

is not about testing the WTC steel. Rather it is about testing the "various types of steel used in the WTC buildings".
IE: they are testing steel and may use their findings to build some simulationns of the towers, long after the evidence is gone.

I recommend that people actually read the links that Maha posts -- they often don't support the point he is making.