this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
8 points (90.0% liked)

Memes

45643 readers
1168 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 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 2 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