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[โ€“] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not even that. It's a refusal to acknowledge the beams don't need to melt, they need to soften just past load carrying capacity. Metal increases in ductility with heat until it slowly becomes liquid and skyscrapers have a fuckload of weight on them

[โ€“] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 days ago

The whole conspiracy theory centering around Building 7 completely neglected that the sprinklers simply weren't able to be turned on, or work with any pressure, and that the building design was enabling the fire to reach stupidly high temperatures.

They evacuated the area when the building started BULGING and a column was shifting out of it's socket.

Perfectly consistent with loss of strength in the beams.