• nednobbins@lemmy.zip
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      19 hours ago

      I assume it’s a reference to one of the 9/11 conspiracy theories.

      The claim was that jet fuel doesn’t burn at a high enough temperature to melt steel. Therefore a bunch of burning jet fuel alone wouldn’t have been enough to collapse the towers. Therefore someone must have put something else there.

      Even XKCD got in on the joke. https://xkcd.com/966/

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        4 hours ago

        You are nearly spot on: it isn’t just the heat it will produce, but the lack of ignition due to the oxygen required for ignition.