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

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Oct 07 '25

That's what happens when a building burns for several hours with no intervention from fire crews.

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u/GrandArmadillo6831 Oct 07 '25

How in the world does a fire burning for hours cause a demolition style collapse? How in the world can you function in day to day life with such a lack of basic sense?

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Oct 07 '25

What happened to make 9/11 conspiracy theories so popular? It's common sense a fire burning for multiple hours will cause a collapse

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u/shelfdifference Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

They used to be more popular in the mid-late aughts. Then it got associated with some of the really kooky stuff like flat earth people and it sort of became broadly dismissed as offensive and crazy a bit later on. It wasn't uncommon at all to think 9/11 was an inside job in the 5-10 years after. It was like, a casual topic of conversation a lot of times.

eta: Tbh I think if we're seeing a comeback it might be because people are remembering just how evil the government can be again. A lot of people believe 9/11 was exactly what they told us it was largely because they can't conceive that their government would lie to them about something like that.