Its high flash point also makes it hard to ignite making it safer than gasoline.

This one did, at least in general terms

Damn, forgot my lighter...

*Pulls out electric baton

*Gas station explodes

From a comic by MoringMark about Knights of Guinevere characters

I bet the average person knows it can't melt steel beams.

I personally didnt and now it makes me question whether it can melt steel beams

I'd think so, yes.

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.

I’ve known it since the 7th grade and I ain’t particularly bright.

Probably not. Same as movie directors don't seem to know what happens when you throw a lit cigarette in gasoline: it puts it out. Diesel doesn't ignite even with a match.

Bro the average person doesn't even know you can compile software for different architectures.

They aren't gonna know about jet fuel which is almost as complex

Melt, no. Compromize the structural integrity? Absolutely.

Does the average person know that it costs $2500 in fuel to get a boeing 747 off the ground?

It's taxed differently as well

I believe in you

I did not know, I must confess. I know now. Knowledge is power.

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.

Probably not because it's extremely useless for 99% of people lol

Does the average person know that a stalagmite is mostly calcium carbonate?

Are we still doing 9/11

Don't need to melt steel beams to destroy a structure. Don't need the jet fuel to be providing all the heat once the structure is on fire either.

You start the barbeque with a lighter but it's the charcoal that's cooking dinner

Red to orange hot and the fucker will bend.

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

Or that tooth plaque is calcium phosphate?

Because no one takes shop class and bends some steel stock.

Of course

Say it ain't so!

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.

Being bent out of shape further reduces the structural integrity on top of the heat.

I think you mean tooth enamel, not plaque

https://xkcd.com/2501/

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 was in school training to be an aircraft mechanic when I learned that. I remember thinking, "that's crazy"

Especially the octane talk I had many times...

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.

Also basically the same as diesel fuel. All three are interchangeable in an emergency situation. They each have different additives and are taxed differently. Also home heating oil too.

Likely not. I thought it was highly volatile until I learned it was basically kerosene.

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

And... Is this post about 9/11?

No one mentioned 9-11. I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Sometimes it's salt petre.

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 could have been built with substandard materials in the first place.

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?

And octane doesn’t grant magical horsepowers to your engine if you pour a can of octane boost in the tank.

Plus all the mind control chemicals they use to make the chemtrails probably burnt really hot. /s

Yes. Speaking for myself.