----- Original Message ---- From: Stephen A. Lawrence
> If there's something more concrete, which pins the temperature and the date a little better, I'd love to see it. Well, there was, but I am having trouble finding it now. Maybe you can help. I remember seeing an image in the days (maybe months) after 9/11 which was some sort of remote sensing image from a satellite. The details of this are foggy, and a quick googling has not located it - but if I am not mistaken those thermal-images are color coded so that if there was a pool of molten metal, then the image would probably give you an accurate surface temperature of the pool as seen from space - and from that, it should be possible to deduce the internal temperature (under the slag which forms on the surface of molten metal) based on how long it had been there. Hey - isn't this EXACTLY what our tax dollars were paying NIST to do ? instead of a funky computer simulation.
