[ExI] trutherism: was RE: Social aim for Transhumanism: Better thinking about issues

AlgaeNymph algaenymph at gmail.com
Tue May 18 20:01:14 UTC 2010


spike wrote:
> So perhaps part of the reason trutherism got so much mileage is due to the
> rumor that a fuel oil fire doesn't get hot enough to melt steel (and so
> explosives must have been present.)  Technically true, but it doesn't need
> to *melt* the steel, only soften it like warm butter.  A fuel-air fire sure
> as hell gets hot enough to soften steel, sufficient to cause burning
> buildings to collapse.
Actually, I remember this being one of the first things brought up.



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