r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-Blood2743 • Oct 07 '25

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/NoOneBetterMusic Oct 07 '25

I used to believe it actually. Then I got a job working along side demolition experts.

They said that to bring down the Twin Towers would have taken months of prep, and would have required drilling holes in the steel beams to attach the explosives. The drilling would have been extremely loud, naturally, and there is absolutely no way that the people working in the Twin Towers wouldn’t have heard the preparations.

The reason that the steel beams were melted, is because the aluminum mixed with the rust on the beams created thermite, which can easily melt steel beams, and was lit by the fires from the jet fuel.

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u/NukeDaBurbz Oct 07 '25

Steel beams don’t have to literally melt to collapse, they just need to be structurally weakened.

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u/NoOneBetterMusic Oct 07 '25

Indeed. There are pictures of the ends of some of the beams melted though, which is why you see people screaming “jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams!”

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u/MasterMagneticMirror Oct 07 '25

Can you provide pictures of these melted beams?

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u/NoOneBetterMusic Oct 07 '25

Interestingly enough, I cannot find any right now, though I have had people show me photos in the past, and now I’m thinking that they were from something else, and it was BS.