Answers For The Tinfoil Hat Brigade On 9/11

This is a great article addressing the conspiracy theories around 9/11. The author has really investigated what happened that day and talked to many experts. Here's a taste.

Okay, let’s start there. One operable term here is the chemical term “thermite,” defined as either the reaction of aluminum and iron oxide, or the combination of two such materials. A thermite reaction produces fires so hot as to be capable of burning almost all building materials and certainly capable of softening steel. That’s why this reaction is used in grenades and why construction workers avoid boring aluminum machinery through rusting steel layers, while morons who think they want to make a bomb at home are eager to experiment with same.

I told you she did her homework.

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