A Bridge to Reality for Rosie

Have you seen the clip of Rossie O'Donnell spouting off her 9/11 Truther tinfoil hat nonsense on The View? You really should watch it. It's kind of amusing to witness a mouthpiece of the far left melt down and make a complete ass of themselves.

Charles Johnson provides a pointer to a Popular Mechanics smack-down of the once mildly funny now overwhelmingly pathetic O'Donnell. If you can't bear to watch it here's part of what she had to say:

“I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7—building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade 1 and 2 got hit by planes—7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.”

Popular Mechanics responded:

The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center weren’t knocked down by planes—they both stood for more than a half-hour after the impacts. But the crashes destroyed support columns and ignited infernos that ultimately weakened—not melted—the steel structures until the towers could no longer support their own weights (NIST offers a primer here). Ms. O’Donnell fundamentally misstates the case with her use of the word “melting”: Evidence currently points to WTC7 also collapsing because fires weakened its ravaged steel structure.

During her rant of The View, Rosie suggested that they bring in some physics experts to discuss her fantasy. I don't think that's necessary. I think with just a few photos we can pretty much prove that Rosie is full of it.

Here are two photos of the fire resulting from the crash of a gasoline tanker on I95 in Bridgeport, CT.

Now a gasoline truck carries significantly less fuel than a commercial airliner. And I'm sure gasoline and jet fuel probably burn at different temperatures. But for the purposes of this demonstration, those facts don't really matter. They are details of scale.

Now the structure where this accident occurred was a just opened newly rebuilt section of bridge. A bridge that it took them a long - long time to build. There was a layer of asphalt. A layer of concrete. All supported by some brand new shiny steel beams.

Here are a couple of photos of what happened of what the gasoline fire did to the bridge.

Any questions Rosie?

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 01:36 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment