Had a chat with my dad that made me rethink 9/11

My dad called me last night out of the blue, started talking about how the towers fell and the steel melt temperatures. He's a retired welder, never talks about this stuff. He said he always wondered why the official report didn't account for the kind of fire those buildings had, and for 20 minutes he laid out why he thinks it was a controlled demolition. It hit different coming from him because he actually knows metal and fire, you know? He's not some random YouTube guy. Has anyone else had a family member drop something like that on you that made you actually pause and think?

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simon_coleman2d ago

Whoa, hold up. Your dad is a retired welder and he said that? That's a huge deal, I gotta say. I mean, my uncle was a structural engineer and he'd never talk about 9/11 beyond saying it was a "tragedy" and leaving it at that, so hearing your pop lay out technical stuff like that is wild. It's one thing when some random person on the internet says it, but a guy who actually works with metal for a living? That would make me stop and listen for sure, especially because the whole steel melting temperature thing always sounded fishy to me. I can't believe you just dropped that in here, man.

grayjohnson2d ago

My dad's the same way about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. He was a carpenter, not a welder, but he watched that old footage and spent twenty minutes explaining how the wind vortex frequency just lined up with the bridge's natural frequency, and I'm like "Dad, I just asked if you wanted ketchup with your fries." Funny how tradesmen see that stuff different than engineers do.