Trenton Tye, a blacksmith from Georgia, recently uploaded this video addressing the ongoing claim among 9/11 truthers that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
View this video on YouTube
The truther claim came to prominence in 2005, when conspiracy theorists noted that most steel doesn't start melting until around 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The theory goes that since ignited jet fuel in the 9/11 explosions didn't get hot enough to melt steel — jet fuel burns at 800 to 1,500 degrees, but the melting point for most steel is 2,700 degrees — the collapsed buildings must have been an inside job. It's a theory that has been roundly debunked, but that somehow has lived on, particularly in meme form.
The meme is still in circulation, and at times it's almost a parody of itself.
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In his video, Tye vents over the fact that the truther claim just won't go away.
To illustrate his point, Tye uses a half-inch steel beam to support a 250-pound anvil. He then pulls out what he claims is an identical beam that is heated to 1,800 degrees.
He then removes the beam from the heat, places it in the anvil support, and bends it with ease.
Extreme ease.
He ends the video by calling the truther argument invalid. "Find a job," he concludes. He told BuzzFeed that he wanted to prove one simple point: "You don't have to melt steel to cause it to fail."
