Just saw someone compare Aircraft grade aluminum to a fucking coke can to explain why the Twin Towers couldn’t possibly have been collapsed by getting hit by 2 planes.

So here’s why the towers did collapse from that. A thread to combat stupidity.

First, you may think “Hey the Empire State Building was crashed into but it didn’t collapse” Yeah, but the plane that hit is was roughly 20,300 lbs. The EMPTY weight of a 767–the planes that hit the towers—is 9x that: EMPTY. That’s right, the empty operating weight of a 767 is

176,650 lbs; THATS the lighter version. Now, let’s add the weight of the passengers. The average American weighs 164(F) and 198(M). For the sake of calculations, I’ll take them down to 164 and 192, since Americans have probably been bigger since that data was collected.

Flight 11 had 76 passengers, 2 flight crew, 9 attendants. Let’s assume all 9 attendants and half the passengers were female. Everyone else is male. 14,816 lbs in passenger weight added. This was a cross country flight, so let’s assume everyone had luggage and the average weight

of the luggage per person is roughly 15 lbs. this may seem high but it’s probably an accurate average considering checked bags and the fact people going from NYC->LA probably had extended stays or business. The new weight of people and cargo is 16,121 lbs.

Thats a projectile weighing 192,771 lbs, likely making impact at 500mph, with a large face of impact. This is a **low** estimate. In all likelihood the plane both weighed significantly more and was traveling faster. All in all, it’s like ramming a car through a house

“bUt ItS MaDe LIkE a CoKE cAn”

Not only are you wrong, you’re stupid. Coke cans (in the US) are made of Aluminum alloy 3004. Planes are made of Aluminum 6061-T6. So no, you’re not flying a fucking coke can. If you really can’t wrap your head around this here’s an easy way:

Your iPhone screen and a zagg screen protector are both glass but one is significantly stronger than the other.

But what about the steel, huh? Jet fuel can’t burn hot enough to melt steel. No it doesn’t. But anyone with half a fucking brain can see why this is a shit argument.

Here’s a gif of someone playing with hot steel like it’s Play-Doh. You’ll notice that when an object is hot, it loses integrity because it inches closer to its melting point—making the structure less rigid. So, you don’t need to make an object a liquid to bend it.

Again, for the idiots: Leaving chocolate in a hot car “melts” it. But it doesn’t. It just makes it more malleable, not a liquid. Take a chemistry class and you’ll learn the melting point is higher that when an object becomes less rigid. Anything hot moves easier than cold object

So, you don’t need to have melted steel, just a structurally damaged building with a raging hot fire that made the skeleton hot enough to be malleable and thus fail to hold its weight. It’s not a hard concept to understand.

Here’s a lovely Popular Mechanics article that debunks the rest of the myths since this thread is already long enough: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a6384/debunking-911-myths-world-trade-center/