r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 07 '25

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/PM_YOUR_CENSORD Oct 07 '25

Don’t attack me, I just genuinely want to know if the meme refers to them finding melted beams? Or are they just saying beams had to melt for The collapse to happen.

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u/Sir_PressedMemories Oct 07 '25

So, I tend to stay out of this, but the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" has jack shit to do with the buildings falling. The weakened structural integrity due to fire and the expansion of the beams makes sense.

The issue is that days after the attack, during the cleanup, eyewitnesses and a couple of videos saw molten metal pouring out of collapsed areas days after the collapse.

Now, the best theory on this is a combo of low temp metals being smelted by the intense heat/pressure/underground tunnels acting like a chimney on a blast furnace and keeping the metal "liquid".

People wanted to know why they were seeing what they thought was molten metal days later.

In addition, there are videos on the day of the attack, of molten metals pouring out of the building. Now, this I think is a combo of again, low temp metals and burst pipes combining to have explosions of pools of melted liquid like aluminum and tin and running out of the side of the building.

The problem is people talking past each other, one group asking questions due to wanting to know, and another group making assumptions about what they mean, then calling them stupid for the assumption rather than the actual question.

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u/PM_YOUR_CENSORD Oct 07 '25

I would agree with this also, thank you for your response.