It's 3am I must be lonely...
It's 3am and I'm studying for the MCAT next Thursday (yikes!) When I study, I like to have a bit of background noise, so I went to YouTube and loaded up the longest video I could find - an hour and a half of 9/11 conspiracy theory lectures.
Now don't get me wrong, I am well aware of the fact that I have not studied the details of the attacks nearly well enough to form any sort of an educated opinion on the theories presented - but I do have a couple of degrees in engineering and I feel compelled to point out one simple fact.
Metal does not have to reach its melting point to fatigue - in fact, it doesn't even have to come close! So why do people keep pointing out the fact that jet fuel burns at below the melting point of steel as though that proves anything?! Take a spoon, put it into the toaster, then take it out with gloves and see how easy it is to bend. Then go look up the melting point of stainless steel and be amazed :-)
I am well aware of the fact that in the age of the internet, anybody with a computer can put their opinions out there for the world to see. However, I am used to very obviously flawed opinions being at least hotly contested...is this one so obvious that nobody bothers to point it out, or am I missing something?
Ok - back to studying the digestive tract (interesting fact of the day - your small intestine has a surface area of about 300 square meters!)
Now don't get me wrong, I am well aware of the fact that I have not studied the details of the attacks nearly well enough to form any sort of an educated opinion on the theories presented - but I do have a couple of degrees in engineering and I feel compelled to point out one simple fact.
Metal does not have to reach its melting point to fatigue - in fact, it doesn't even have to come close! So why do people keep pointing out the fact that jet fuel burns at below the melting point of steel as though that proves anything?! Take a spoon, put it into the toaster, then take it out with gloves and see how easy it is to bend. Then go look up the melting point of stainless steel and be amazed :-)
I am well aware of the fact that in the age of the internet, anybody with a computer can put their opinions out there for the world to see. However, I am used to very obviously flawed opinions being at least hotly contested...is this one so obvious that nobody bothers to point it out, or am I missing something?
Ok - back to studying the digestive tract (interesting fact of the day - your small intestine has a surface area of about 300 square meters!)
posted by Nicholas at 3:00 AM
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