On September 11, 2001, four airline planes were hijacked, resulting in about 3,000 deaths and 6,000 injuries. As two planes ran into the World Trade Center in New York City, one jet flew into the Pentagon as the fourth plane was headed towards Washington D.C. Responsible for the countless deaths on that Tuesday morning was Osama bin Laden followed by his Islamic terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, and no one else (Elizabeth Purdy 12). Countless conspiracy theories come to life after impacting events happen, and dismally, 9/11 is no exception. Conspirators argue that 9/11 was an inside job used to blame the Iraqi nation in order to have valid reason to go overseas to steal middle-eastern oil, and at the head of this operation is none other than former
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For example, if the commercial airliners were flown off grid, someone not “involved” would have noticed it immediately. The “decoys” could not have been carrying missiles, as any missile launched would’ve clearly left the building. The biggest argument that conspirators use but is very wrong is the very common phrase, “jet fuel cannot melt steel beams.” It can. As pseudoscientists, conspirators choose to not look at the evidence. “The maximum flame temperature increase for burning hydrocarbons (jet fuel) in air is, thus, about 1,000°C—hardly sufficient to melt steel at 1,500°C” (Thomas W. Eagar and Christopher Musso). According to these two gentlemen, there is no way the towers would have collapsed because the steel beams did not melt. Eager and Musso are completely correct with their numbers. Jet fuel simply does not burn that hot, however, it burns hot enough to weaken the beams to the point of tearing down the structure. There is a lot of skepticism about what the government does in certain areas, but believing that the attacks on the World Trade Center were an inside job is unfathomable not only due to wild theories, but scientific
For example, if the commercial airliners were flown off grid, someone not “involved” would have noticed it immediately. The “decoys” could not have been carrying missiles, as any missile launched would’ve clearly left the building. The biggest argument that conspirators use but is very wrong is the very common phrase, “jet fuel cannot melt steel beams.” It can. As pseudoscientists, conspirators choose to not look at the evidence. “The maximum flame temperature increase for burning hydrocarbons (jet fuel) in air is, thus, about 1,000°C—hardly sufficient to melt steel at 1,500°C” (Thomas W. Eagar and Christopher Musso). According to these two gentlemen, there is no way the towers would have collapsed because the steel beams did not melt. Eager and Musso are completely correct with their numbers. Jet fuel simply does not burn that hot, however, it burns hot enough to weaken the beams to the point of tearing down the structure. There is a lot of skepticism about what the government does in certain areas, but believing that the attacks on the World Trade Center were an inside job is unfathomable not only due to wild theories, but scientific