Originally posted by pteridine
Using aluminum as an explosive requires an oxidant.
Oxidant = oxygen = in the air.
Unless there is an integral oxidant or the aluminum is dispersed in air, there will not be a shockwave of any significance.
I already told you the only use out of the velocity at which this stuff expands, unless it's greatly increased or combined with something else, is
only useful for producing a relatively powerful jet of molten iron. It's nowhere near what a high explosive does and wouldn't be used the same
way.
The target is usually people.
Well then obviously you're going to have to push that out of mind and only consider effects on steel columns, because killing people isn't
significant towards bringing a massive skyscraper down.
There are better things to destroy buildings.
Once again, you would know, right?
For your comprehension I will rephrase and say “All the PE is converted to heat and there is no KE.”
There is no KE where? This is starting to get good. WTC7 didn't collapse after all?
None of the PE was used if it fell at free fall. Not converted into ANYTHING else. That's why it was able to fall at the rate of gravity: no
kinetic energy was lost. If it hit something, or had to bend or destroy something, then it would have slowed down. Like, an entire building?
Yeah, it should have slowed down. Even air causes falling objects to slow below free-fall rate, when it isn't deliberately pushed out of the way
first.
Of course, you will claim secret, quiet nanoparticulate aluminum explosives that leave no trace,
You can't say no trace was left because you don't even know what I think did it. There
were elevated amounts of unusual chemicals in
sol-gels, etc. But you would probably say no traces anyway, because you are a troll like that and only here to argue.
a team in black fatigues to carry them into an unstable, burning building, on short notice
Yeah, you're putting words in my mouth now, and intentionally thinking the stupidest possible things that you can. I wonder at what point it becomes
appropriate to hit the ignore button.
on a senseless mission to destroy an already gutted building
Gutted? Yeah, ok. I know I won't see any evidence of that. You are just ranting and making things up, the same way you just put words in my
mouth.
Yeah, people do say a lot of things. There
are a lot of possibilities. But people have been cultivating this awesome system of thought in the
West called "logic," and "reasoning," and even "science," and when you stick rigorously to those things and NOT appeals to authority, assuming
critical variables, straight arguing with people and putting words in their mouths, emotional rants, etc., you will begin to understand what did and
did not happen. But you have to actually care and want to know, not just want to argue with people because you're developing your ego and you get
feel-good bursts of endorphins when you defend your intellectual territory (you do), just like an animal that defends its physical territory. You can
keep your views, my friend, and I promise you I won't give a damn. Stop ranting, stop throwing in emotionally charged words, and bias, and just
stick to the damned points and be logical or I'm going to stop feeding my energy into this.
