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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

Don’t build em like they used to.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

either that or they don't make jet fuel like they used to

in before "um, actually, the B-25 was a propeller-driven aircraft and therefore obviously did not use jet fuel"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 weeks ago

I mean that and a b25 weighs like 40k lbs and a 767 weighs like 400k lbs, and flies twice as fast.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Very very different crashes.

The planes that hit the twin towers were bigger, going faster, and had more fuel.

The twin towers themselves were also built with a different skyscraper design at well that used fewer steel beams. I don't remember what the names of the skyscraper design types were but I remember a 9-11 history channel program going into it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I may be wrong but I recall the twin towers had a central spine that was the load bearing component like a tree or something. Older buildings had a frame and load bearing exterior with a soft, gooey center.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I remember it being explained as the twin towers "hung" somehow, so the central spine makes sense.

The older buildings were basically just steel beams like you see in cartoons. Lots and lots and lots of steel basically in cubes from what I recall. So there was just a lot more to catch the load. In some sense they were overbuilt.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Jet fuel can't melt steel memes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I heard they made hypnotoad gay!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

but the resulting fire can absolutely diminish their load capacity, making them frail and pliable like boiled spaghetti

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps counter-intuitively, if your pockets are full of Mom's spaghetti, you're more likely to be structurally sound.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Either that, or Bush did 9/11

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe a B-25 killed WTC 7

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