Honestly, I think the whole 'jet fuel can't melt steel beams' thing is a distraction.

I spent a weekend digging into the NIST reports from 2005, specifically the part about the fireproofing being knocked off the steel. Tbh, once you look at the actual engineering data about thermal weakening, the popular online argument falls apart pretty fast. Has anyone else actually read the full technical appendix, or do people just repeat the soundbite?

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elizabeth9001mo ago

Ngl, my eyes glazed over just reading "technical appendix," so I'll take your word for it.

cameronmurray1mo ago

You didn't even look at the charts? The whole argument falls apart on page three. They used a completely wrong data set. It's right there in the first footnote. How can you agree without checking the basic numbers?

sageross1mo ago

Lol "how can you agree without checking the basic numbers" is a personal attack on my entire internet life. I'm with elizabeth900, footnotes are where reading goes to die. I once tried to fact-check a meme about pizza consumption and fell into a spreadsheet hole for 45 minutes. By the end I had tabs open from the USDA and some guy's 2007 geocities page. I just wanted to know if New York really eats more slices. Never found the answer, just a deep fear of data sets.