Simulation Finds 9/11 Fireproofing Key

FoxNews ^ | 6/20/07

[ExcursionGuy84]

Exactly. They’ll find another “Barn Door” that isn’t locked or just barred with rotten wood.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There are other mineral based, non asbestos fireproofing materials that work by swelling up with tiny air bubbles (intumescent) when heated. They are quite good because the bubbles are a much better insulator than any solid substance, just like a styrofoam cup will keep a lemonade cold longer than a solid plastic tumbler will.
But the technology is fairly new, and might not have been available at that time.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Smuggling whatever over the Mexican-US border sounds likely.

[tanknetter]

im·plo·sion (im-plo-zehn) - The inward collapse of a building that is being demolished in a controlled fashion by the weakening and breaking of structural members by explosives.

Words have meaning.

Yes, they do. I would assume that most with knowledge of the subject would believe that the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion were neither buildings, nor inward(ly) collapse(d) ... in a controlled fashion.

Yet the word "implosion" applies very precisely to what happened to both of them.