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In reply to the discussion: The Great Thermite Debate... [View all]William Seger
(11,082 posts)Yes, it occurred to me, but then it immediately occurred to me that that is highly implausible, and it's highly implausible that no other ambitious materials scientist would step up to point out that they see signs of melting, which is not surprising since I certainly can't see any, either. While it's true that implausibility doesn't mean it didn't happen, you insist on ignoring that such high implausibility makes the claim extraordinary, and that we simply don't need any such extraordinary claims to explain why the building fell, and that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. This "proof by assertion" doesn't do the trick:
> That is consistent with a thermite attack as demonstrated by Mr. Cole.
Prove it, since Cole certainly didn't do anything but demonstrate a superficial resemblance, and that's only if you blithely ignore the slag that his thermite melting produced, and then ignore that he didn't get that result using the apparatus that he imagines cut the columns, and then don't worry too much that nobody else has duplicated his results.