[extropy-chat] rosie! help!

[Keith Henson]

At 02:35 PM 4/29/2007 -0700, you wrote:

>A fuel tanker overturned up the street in Oakland this morning.  The fire
>was so intense it caused the freeway overhead to melt and collapse:

I would be very surprised to see an open air gasoline fire melt steel

>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/29/highway.collapse.ap/index.html
>
>But Rosie Odonnell and the truther movement assured me that a fuel fire like
>this one is not hot enough to melt steel.  Freeway overpasses have steel
>supports.

Right.  But I do expect the steel supports to reach red heat, at which 
point they soften to the point they can't support the weight.

Keith