• snoons@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I bet the average person knows it can’t melt steel beams.

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      And the average person should also know that steel doesn’t need to melt to lose a lot of it’s load bearing capacity. At 500-600 Celsius, only 50% of steel strength remains.

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        20 hours ago

        Plus there would be wind fanning those flames hard which could raise the temperature some.

        But the other thing to consider is that the towers could have been built with substandard materials in the first place.

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          19 hours ago

          Plus all the mind control chemicals they use to make the chemtrails probably burnt really hot. /s

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          15 hours ago

          IIRC, the materials were fine, but the spray-on fireproofing left large patches uncovered. While not a direct cause, it certainly didn’t help.

          WTYP has a pretty good episode on the entire thing