Metal Worker Shuts Down 9/11 Truthers... With His Pinkie!

[GMDino]

I suppose this is the right forum for this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/metal-worker-911-truthers_56721a31e4b0648fe3023b4d?cps=gravity_2425_-4731952758020368135

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"Jet fuel can't melt steel" is the unofficial rallying cry of 9/11 truthers. It's also completely irrelevant, because steel doesn't have to melt to lose its strength.

"If you hold this up as a reason for conspiracy, you are an idiot," Trenton Tye, a Georgia blacksmith who runs Purgatory Ironworks and has been featured on the History Channel, said in a new video that debunks one of the truthers' core arguments.

Tye said that while steel melts at about 2,700 degrees -- well above the 1,500-degree heat of a jet fuel fire -- it weakens at a much lower temperature.  

He then did a simple video demonstration to make his point.

Using just his pinkie, he showed what you can do to hot steel at 1,800 degrees, long before it reaches its melting point:  


Or as he puts it...



While the steel hasn't melted, it's clearly so weak it's easy to see how it could cause a building to collapse.

"Your argument is invalid, get over it," he says as he bends the "noodle" of steel. "Find a job."

Time for a metallurgical mic drop:


(h/t Mediaite)