I knew, but only because I read a lot of cold war stories, and for war becomes hot stories. Running a jet on cooking kerosene was a plot point in one
I have since read about just engines and jet fuel
I don’t work in that industry at all. I’m an IT systems analyst
I don’t know how easily it blows up, I’m too cool to turn around and watch the explosion
Probably not because it’s extremely useless for 99% of people lol
Does the average person know that a stalagmite is mostly calcium carbonate?
does that mean you could use a chunk of a stalagmite as a tums in a pinch? (I think that’s what tums is maybe its a different calcium)
I knew both! AuDHD for the win.
Umm…what were we talking about again?
Maps, I think? Or ships. Possibly trains…
I swear it was neutron stars.
What if life were to evolve on a neutron star?
Well no, why would they remember that? They’ve got to remember the chemical formula for one or two quartzes
I need that brain space for the Windows XP activation code
Of course
Or that tooth plaque is calcium phosphate?
I think you mean tooth enamel, not plaque
Say it ain’t so!
Maybe people do know that?
Drinking / tap water here comes from a limestone aquifer. Tap ware and shower screens and toilets develop a calcium carbonate build up that needs to be chemically removed.
I think anyone who’s been in a cave and heard how stalagmites form would remember that it’s calcium carbonate.
I learned about it in school and have seen them in a caves but still had to look it up for the bit.
How about this…does the average person know that the transport latency of Dante audio is around 150 microseconds?
Maybe but I don’t.
That’s ok, I don’t expect anyone outside of my industry to know that
Sometimes it’s salt petre.
No. Most people think you can throw a lit cigarette or lighter on it and it will go up instantly too because of movies. I think Die Hard 2 was the worst lol, he like threw a zippo in the puddle of her fuel and then it followed the plane in mid air to blow it up.
I don’t think people know how octane level works either. I think they assume higher octane is easier to combust when it’s the exact opposite.
And octane doesn’t grant magical horsepowers to your engine if you pour a can of octane boost in the tank.
Especially the octane talk I had many times…
The entire point of jet fuel is that it DOESN’T “blow up easily”, though.
unlike gasoline, It actually takes quite a bit of effort to ignite avgas in it’s liquid form because it’s designed to be aerosolized before being ignited.
Avgas and jet fuel aren’t the same thing. Avgas is leaded gasoline used in airplane engines. Jet fuel is specially formulated for use in turbines.
And… Is this post about 9/11?
Not at all.
No one mentioned 9-11. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
I assume it’s a reference to one of the 9/11 conspiracy theories.
The claim was that jet fuel doesn’t burn at a high enough temperature to melt steel. Therefore a bunch of burning jet fuel alone wouldn’t have been enough to collapse the towers. Therefore someone must have put something else there.
Even XKCD got in on the joke. https://xkcd.com/966/
I thought Avgas was 100ll, not jet fuel?
You’re correct; the terms are not interchangeable.
I can’t remember the which is which. I just remember that Avgas and 100ll are the two types of aviation fuel. My brain doesn’t have the ability to remember which is which. Which is probably why it’s a good thing I’m not a pilot…
Aviation gasoline or avgas is 100LL (100 octane, low lead), and jet fuel is Jet-A.
Once years ago, I used a few mL of gasoline as a solvent to clean grease from a part. To dispose of it, I put it in a can and tossed a lit match in.
The liquid gasoline extinguished the flame. Even gasoline is hard to ignite.
Does the average person know that it costs $2500 in fuel to get a boeing 747 off the ground?
I would have guessed more, and I have a pilot license!
Likely not. I thought it was highly volatile until I learned it was basically kerosene.
yes.
Are we still doing 9/11
I did not know, I must confess. I know now. Knowledge is power.
No. I wager the average person thinks its some kind of super dangerous super powered liquid explosion magic, because the average person is kind of an idiot.
I, however, did know its fancy kerosene
I bet the average person knows it can’t melt steel beams.
And the average person should also know that steel doesn’t need to melt to lose a lot of it’s load bearing capacity. At 500-600 Celsius, only 50% of steel strength remains.
Plus there would be wind fanning those flames hard which could raise the temperature some.
But the other thing to consider is that the towers were built with substandard materials in the first place.
IIRC, the materials were fine, but the spray-on fireproofing left large patches uncovered. While not a direct cause, it certainly didn’t help.
WTYP has a pretty good episode on the entire thing
Plus all the mind control chemicals they use to make the chemtrails probably burnt really hot. /s
Because no one takes shop class and bends some steel stock.
Yes. Speaking for myself.
I was in school training to be an aircraft mechanic when I learned that. I remember thinking, “that’s crazy”
