Never understood the point of this meme. Even if the beams don't melt, you still need to account for the material becoming weakened and mailable, which happens at a much lower temp than it's melting point, and then it loses all structural integrity.

[–] Liome@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what conspiracy nuts keep saying. "Jet fuel cannot melt steel beams!!!1!".
It's a meme because of how fucking stupid that is.

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

True. I just have a bunch of idiots that believe that kind of shit around here, so I guess I reflexively get angry about this crap. Just found out one of my employees is a Flat-earther. Knew she was an anti-vaxxer, but that's a whole new level of dumb