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Tormented Souls

5.31.07 @ 12:01AM

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As far as steel being a conductor of heat, it's a good conductor, but not a "perfect" conductor. Griffin et al. would have us believe that the steel somehow "transmitted" the heat so that the steel beams were at some sort of uniform temperature LESS THAN that required to cause failure. That is not the case. Steel is NOT a perfect (or super-) conductor of heat. The point where heat is applied will always be at a higher temperature than points further away. I used to be a welder and on some large applications, we had to preheat the weld area first. I was never able to apply heat in one area and have the entire weld area at the same temperature, even after applying the heat for hours. We ALWAYS had to move the heat source to new areas prior to welding.

Sorry this is so long. I could go on about Griffin but this will do.
-- Karl F. Auerbach
Eden, Utah

LIGHT TOUGH
Re: Jay Molyneaux's letter (under Artificial Intelligence") in Reader Mail's After the Fall:

It is simply not true that Jimmy Carter did nothing to answer the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran and the capture of American hostages. Late in the same year that America was thus humiliated, Carter very boldly and publicly replied by refusing to illuminate the White House Christmas tree.
-- Edmund Dantes
Coshocton, Ohio

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