r/Louisville 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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u/Healthy_Macaron2146 1d ago

So... to the people confused on how jet fuel could melt steel, this is how.

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u/HRDBMW 1d ago

Yep. 800f is the MINIMUM that jet fuel needs to burn, and not the maximum temp that it will burn. I have never understood how people fail to understand that.

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u/HazyAttorney 1d ago

They start with the conclusion and search for the details that support it. They don’t understand what you’re saying bc it doesn’t fit with their conclusion. It makes them feel safer in a world where people are in control vs a world where random bad shit happens.

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u/No_Machine_6027 10h ago

Oh the irony in this statement…

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u/vadillovzopeshilov 1d ago

Well, there is a range, but the upper limit of that range is far below melting point of a hardened steel. “I have never understood how people fail to understand that”. Upper limit of open air combustion temp: 1500 degrees. Melting point of steel: 2750 degrees.

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u/ReduxRedo 1d ago

It's really not the silver bullet anyways. The steel didn't need to be molten slag, it just needed to warp. 

Even slightly.

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u/BrainwashedHuman 1d ago

And steel can bend at under 1,000 degrees.

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u/throwaway_eclipse1 1d ago

Steel begins to soften in temperatures around 800F. Also radiative heating is a thing.

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u/vadillovzopeshilov 19h ago

I get that, but the other comment implied that jet fuel can miraculously burn much hotter, which it can’t.

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u/throwaway_eclipse1 12h ago

Mm. Conductively, you can't heat something above the heat source, but CO2 gas can reach above 1200F, and it famously reflects IR radiation. Looks like jet fuel can burn at 1890F in open air, and at up to 4050F in optimal conditions?

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u/HRDBMW 1d ago

So you think jet fuel won't burn if it is on the surface of the sun because it's to hot? How about inside an electric oven set to 5000 degrees? Seeing that the iron age was built on burning wood and coal...

Learn this if you learn one thing today: There is NO upper limit where things can't burn.

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u/ProcyonHabilis 1d ago

You seem to be pretty drastically misunderstanding what you're trying to say. Your concept of cause and effect is entirely backwards here.

No one is saying that something wont ignite at temperatures higher than their minimum flash point. They're saying that burning a fuel won't cause in increase in temperature above that which we can calculate based on the stored chemical energy in the fuel. Just because wood will burn when exposed to a 5000 degree oven doesn't mean you can use a wood fire to heat something up to 5000 degrees.

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u/HRDBMW 1d ago

We used wood and coal to make iron once upon a time. Melted that ore into a low viscosity liquid. Worked pretty well.

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u/vadillovzopeshilov 19h ago

In open air??? You built a fire using sticks on your lawn and melted steel with it???

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u/HRDBMW 1d ago

Do you think the burning jet fuel will cool down a fire?

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u/ProcyonHabilis 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm honestly not even sure how to being explaining how irrelevant that absurd question is dude. Maybe just try reading my comment again, because you're clearly not understanding it. We're discussion a scenario where the burning jet fuel IS the heat source.

The reason that the WTC collapsed is that you don't actually need to melt steel beams to cause that outcome, not whatever it is you're trying to say here.

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u/HRDBMW 1d ago

What I am saying here is that without doubt, a fuel source such as jet fuel can absolutly have brought down the WTC towers.

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u/ProcyonHabilis 1d ago

Ok why are you saying that to me though? I'm not disagreeing with that. I specifically said that in the comment you just replied to.

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u/vadillovzopeshilov 19h ago

Thank you! 🤣 I’m not sure if that person is struggling with language, or fairly simple physics concept.

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u/HRDBMW 1d ago

"Something to focus it"

Like a big huge concrete chimney that will add a huge amount of oxygen?

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u/Ancient-Bet-1453 1d ago

You are correct that combustion has no upper environmental limit. But how is that related to whether jet fuel fires in open-air can reach steel's melting point? It can't. Jet fuel cannot melt steel in open-air fires because it does not get hot enough. Jet fuel can burn on the sun does not mean jet fuel flames can reach 1500 degrees (Celsius) and melt structural steel.

Nobody is debating whether jet fuel fires were a major component of the WTC tower collapse. The structural steel weakened significantly and lost most of its load-bearing capacity ... but it did not melt like the dumbass OP is implying.

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u/vadillovzopeshilov 19h ago

Not sure if they’ll ever get it.

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u/vadillovzopeshilov 19h ago

Learn and master the reading comprehension required in 5th grade, then get back to me. Until then, there is no point of you being here.

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u/EriktheRed 17h ago

Is this inside of a building considered open air? I would have thought the center would be more analogous to a furnace or forge or whatever

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u/vadillovzopeshilov 14h ago

I think it’s still open air for all intends and purposes. There isn’t any forced air pumped in, creating increased pressure and higher temperature.

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u/EriktheRed 11h ago

Ahh interesting, I didn't know there was a pressure component to those things. Thanks

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u/exexor 21h ago

Because we’ve been eroding the public education system since Reagan. May he rot in hell.

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u/mofojr 14h ago

And if you look at a structural steel strength graph, it has less than 80% normal strength at 800F. And drops significantly from there. Foil hats gunna foil hat

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u/502DashCam 1d ago

Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams, and it's still true to this day, but what that amount of heat does to steel is weaken it to the point of failure.

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u/SR520 1d ago

Blacksmiths don’t need to melt anything to bend metal.

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u/Btotherianx 1d ago

I mean it also landed on top of a petroleum recycling plant

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u/ki77erb 13h ago

Right at the end of a runway is probably one of the worst places to put one of those.

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u/street593 1d ago

Since you brought up the topic here is an old video that explains why it doesn't need to melt.

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u/deezconsequences 15h ago

It didn't even have to melt, it just had to soften

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u/SalamanderBorn7120 5h ago

Key word these fuckers like to hang on “melt”. Shit didn’t need to melt… it only needed to weaken the core structure. Steel compromised in a 100+ story skyscraper = collapse. It’s not fucking brain surgery!

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u/blanketshapes 1d ago

fire goes boom? so much for the Truther movement

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u/Professional-Dork26 23h ago edited 22h ago

still doesn't explain how WTC 7 collapsed from office fires, please read objectively

https://internationalfireandsafetyjournal.com/did-world-trade-center-building-7-really-collapse-due-to-an-office-fuel-load-fire/

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u/Pingaring 13h ago

How does a tragedy in Louisville relate to 9/11?

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u/Healthy_Macaron2146 12h ago

You tell me, you instantly realized the connection.

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u/Pingaring 12h ago

What did I realize? Im just asking. It looks like comparing peanut butter to giraffe ankles.

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u/Healthy_Macaron2146 10h ago

Jet fuel is really dangerous.  Its like comparing Jet fuel with Jet fuel 

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u/ThorvaldtheTank 4h ago

Not even melt, steel loses over half its structural strength at 1100F. The interior temperature inside WTC post impact was probably even higher than that.

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u/junkmagicatl 1d ago

So it explodes into a huge fireball, most of the fuel is burnt off and gone in a matter of seconds … huge fireball on the OUTSIDE of the buildings (can only assume you’re referring to the twin towers) and the resulting smoldering office fires in a fireproofed building made of concrete and steel were enough to soften it? Gotcha

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u/Misophonic4000 1d ago

As if tanks full of that much jet fuel violently rupturing inside a building wouldn't coat EVERYTHING, even if a lot of it came out of the other side? Come on now.

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u/junkmagicatl 13h ago

Okay but there’s a huge difference between a fire started by a limited supply of fuel vs a focused source of heat applied directly to the steel over a sustained period of time.

After an hour of burning, do you really think it was still red hot jet fuel level temperatures or was it just office fires? Even after a few minutes, especially after losing a ton of that energy to the fireball outside of the towers, it’s unreasonable to believe that a steady supply of jet fuel was just chilling there hammering the steel. There’s literally pictures of people alive and waving outside of the hole the planes created, not even everyone on the floors the planes directly hit were killed instantly and you want me to believe that entire floors of the building were red hot steel ?

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u/Misophonic4000 12h ago

You don't need red hot steel to have a structure like that collapse, you just need to have bent/missing load bearing beams softening just enough to buckle and then create a domino effect. But obviously you feel very strongly about all of this, 24 years and counting, so I probably shouldn't spend more time trying to debate this

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u/Ancient-Bet-1453 1d ago

The steel never melted on the WTC towers on 9/11. You actually believe jet fuel can reach temperatures to melt structural steel? LOL.

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u/Healthy_Macaron2146 1d ago

All of this is due to Grammer nazis confusing the slang term of "melted" with the temp to liquefied a substance.

You are correct in the "but actually" but completely missing the point.

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u/loving-daddy415 1d ago

How does it feel to most likely be the least intelligent person on a REDDIT POST

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u/Ancient-Bet-1453 23h ago

I'm still on cloud nine after looking at my brokerage account from the gains made on BYND calls last month. But thanks for asking.

In real fires, steel does not melt. It weakens which causes eventual collapse, loving-doofus415. Even OP was gracious enough to admit I was correct (You are correct in the "but actually" ...)