- 7 hours
I don’t think they do. I’m a person that likes aviation and I never think about jet fuel.
- psud@aussie.zoneEnglish15 hours
I knew, but only because I read a lot of cold war stories, and for war becomes hot stories. Running a jet on cooking kerosene was a plot point in one
I have since read about just engines and jet fuel
I don’t work in that industry at all. I’m an IT systems analyst
- 21 hours
I don’t know how easily it blows up, I’m too cool to turn around and watch the explosion
- 1 day
Probably not because it’s extremely useless for 99% of people lol
Does the average person know that a stalagmite is mostly calcium carbonate?
19 hoursdoes that mean you could use a chunk of a stalagmite as a tums in a pinch? (I think that’s what tums is maybe its a different calcium)
- 23 hours
I knew both! AuDHD for the win.
Umm…what were we talking about again?
- lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 day
Well no, why would they remember that? They’ve got to remember the chemical formula for one or two quartzes
- 1 day
Likely not. I thought it was highly volatile until I learned it was basically kerosene.
I was in school training to be an aircraft mechanic when I learned that. I remember thinking, “that’s crazy”
No. I wager the average person thinks its some kind of super dangerous super powered liquid explosion magic, because the average person is kind of an idiot.
I, however, did know its fancy kerosene
- Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish1 day
The entire point of jet fuel is that it DOESN’T “blow up easily”, though.
unlike gasoline, It actually takes quite a bit of effort to ignite avgas in it’s liquid form because it’s designed to be aerosolized before being ignited.
- gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish15 hours
Avgas and jet fuel aren’t the same thing. Avgas is leaded gasoline used in airplane engines. Jet fuel is specially formulated for use in turbines.
- SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish23 hours
Once years ago, I used a few mL of gasoline as a solvent to clean grease from a part. To dispose of it, I put it in a can and tossed a lit match in.
The liquid gasoline extinguished the flame. Even gasoline is hard to ignite.
- 6 hours
Um, another one? I am pretty sure I solidified this one.
Are you talking about Second Life, or are you promoting a new MMORPG?
- 1 day
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/
- 9 hours
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.
- 1 day
No. Most people think you can throw a lit cigarette or lighter on it and it will go up instantly too because of movies. I think Die Hard 2 was the worst lol, he like threw a zippo in the puddle of her fuel and then it followed the plane in mid air to blow it up.
I don’t think people know how octane level works either. I think they assume higher octane is easier to combust when it’s the exact opposite.
- neidu4@piefed.socialEnglish1 day
And the average person should also know that steel doesn’t need to melt to lose a lot of it’s load bearing capacity. At 500-600 Celsius, only 50% of steel strength remains.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish1 day
Plus there would be wind fanning those flames hard which could raise the temperature some.
But the other thing to consider is that the towers could have been built with substandard materials in the first place.
- 23 hours
Plus all the mind control chemicals they use to make the chemtrails probably burnt really hot. /s
- neidu4@piefed.socialEnglish20 hours
IIRC, the materials were fine, but the spray-on fireproofing left large patches uncovered. While not a direct cause, it certainly didn’t help.
WTYP has a pretty good episode on the entire thing
- 49 minutes
This just in: scientists have determined that a more direct cause for the towers falling than defective spray-on fireproofing may exist. Rumors have begun to circulate that the WTCs collapse may be attributed to the two aircraft which collided with them. Details at 6.
(I kid, I kid)
