Windsor Tower in Madrid, Spain burned for 20+ hours and never collapsed. No steel frame structure has ever collapsed due to fire, before or after 9/11. On 9/11, 3 collapsed, due to "structural failure from fires".

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[–]package 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

... the windsor tower was ~4x shorter than the world trade center towers and hadn't suffered an impact from a 747 and hadn't been doused in burning jet fuel at that impact site and wasn't within 200 feet of an equally sized building that had just collapsed

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

burning jet fuel

Why don't kerosene (almost the same as jet fuel) camp stove and lanterns melt? Because it will never ever get hot enough.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

and also why doesn't the plane itself melt up as soon as the engine is switched on lol.

[–]package 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Metals are just a tiny bit more complicated than melted vs not melted, believe it or not. Heat can drastically reduce the rigidity of a metal long before it melts. Also did you know that airplanes aren't made of steel I-beams and -- now this is going to be a real shocker but bear with me -- jet fuel isn't ignited in the body of the plane.

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yeah planes are made of even lighter and weaker metal

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You're pretty complicated in your denial yourself. Are you melted yet?