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My last encounter with a Truther turned out to be a good friend I had always thought to be a fairly rational person. But when he started going on about an "inside job", my radar came on. Then he claimed that you could not fabricate thermite except under controlled laboratory conditions.
He shut up after I showed him this video - the professor uses Aluminum powder or filings with iron oxide (basically, rust). Common ingredients we can find anywhere, like in a jet liner collision with a skyscraper. He then had endless objections to the proposition in the video, which told me maybe he wasn't as smart as I thought.
When I was a wee sprat in middle school, one of the websites that got passed around a lot had instructions for making explosives...and, like, phone-hacking equipment, which was kind of quaint in the early 2000's? I dunno, it's been a long time. But anyways, thermite was one of the things it told you how to make.Thermite isn't rocket science (well technically it is, but you know what I mean).
You can make thermite in your kitchen from rusty steel wool and aluminum foil. The paint on the Hindenberg was basically thermite, that's why the fire spread so fast. My high school science teacher damaged the front desk by making a wee bit too much thermite and it ate through the ceramic block he was using to contain it. My first university chemistry class started off with the professor setting off some thermite. They use it to weld rails. It's super common because it's super easy to make.
Oh - lol, Cindy. Yeah supposedly the evidence that "thermite charges" were used at WTC was microscopic iron spheres that were present in large quantities in WTC dust.
Thermitic reactions can explain the presence of these little things, but it's not necessary, they can come from other fires that involve iron in some way.
But here's my favorite kicker though. Fire and the actual event aren't even necessary to explain why there would be gads and gads of microscopic iron spheres in the dust of a collapsed office building. See this?
It's Xerox toner. Tiny iron spheres that are melted onto paper as the "ink" in copy machines and laser printers.