Did Mythbusters ever tackle any of the 9-11 theories? That would be awkward and hilarious
Posted by Dontblameme1@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Watching them try to eloquently navigate the touchy subject induces cringe just thinking about it.
iamaperson1337@reddit
nope, they haven't and never will. although it would actually be fairly interesting and maybe even funny. I can just imagine Adam dishing it out to conspiracy theorists.
Dontblameme1@reddit (OP)
Why is it so obvious to you they never would?
Jhonopolis@reddit
At some event after they took suggestions from reddit Adam talked about some of the terrible ideas they heard over and over again that they will never do. One for example was seeing if pineapple changes the taste of semen. Anyways the one he really seemed annoyed by was "can jet fuel melt steel beams?" he dismissed the idea and wasn't particularly nice when talking about the type of people he assumed sent in those suggestions.
rambogoham1@reddit
It's cause it can't. In reality jet fuel burns much lower than the temperature required to melt steel... but that's also coming from an Mechanical Engineer.
keiyakins@reddit
Dear God, I hope I never rely on anything you worked on if you think you have to melt a steel member for it to lose strength.
b230fk@reddit
A standard bonfire isn't hot enough to melt aluminum, yet an aluminum can still crumbles under heat even without weight on it. Comparably heating up steel will cause it to not necessarily melt but become far less rigid. Think about how for paintless dent repair you can simply pour hot water on a hood that was previously dented and near impossible to get straight again, and just this <250°f heat is enough to allow the hood to malleable enough to be fixed with a small plunger. An object doesn't have to melt to lose structural integrity. If that aluminum can buckles without weight at the temperatures achieved at a shitty bonfire, imagine 1500°f on steel with 110 floors, each an acre in size, either on top of it or putting stress on it where it's attached below to a floor rapidly losing structural support. Imagine 500,000,000lbs of pressure on a heated beam.
You're not a genius, just a pretty shit tier meche.
rambogoham1@reddit
The building I'm talking about is world trade center 7, they were just office fires. But somehow that entire building collapsed inside of itself at the rate of gravity. This is impossible with reinforced concrete steel buildings. They don't collapse at the rate of gravity from office fires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZiMG84hws0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhv5qbjICB4
1phenylpropan-2amine@reddit
3 years later, but how could you possibly say you were talking about building 7 when you literally said jet fuel in the comment above?
iamaperson1337@reddit
It's too touchy of a subject. conspiracy nuts will find a way to twist any of the findings so that in their mind the Mythbusters agree with them, adding fuel to the fire.
There is also a quick statement from Adam: Here
WeCanDoItGuys@reddit
Engineering gets difficult to scale up materials, and we have to turn around a myth in 7 days. It's been on our list, but I wouldn't go near that one unless I was convinced we could do it in a way that was actually convincing.
Cyfurix@reddit
Very reasonable take, in my opinion. He didn't shy away from it but was concerned with the authenticity. So he's not scared of shaking up the machine, but would want to do it responsibly
Rednarok@reddit
im sorry to break it to you but they did run an episode witht he same explosives that was found residue in the rubble but made such a dumb ass experiment that has nothing to do with how explosives are used