Here’s what we need to do with the 9/11 Truthers that keep bringing up the “Steel couldn’t have melted at these temperatures! Conspiracy!”; we need to conduct an experiment with them and lay this issue to rest for good.

We’ll build a relatively small steel cage structure to support a 10 tonne concrete block 10 meters off the ground using a large steel pillar. We’ll construct a fire platform about five meters up, fill a big tank full of jet fuel to be set on fire. This pool of flame will heat the central column that provides 95% of the “keep the rock off the loon” support, and this flame will tell us if there is any chance that a support column could fail enough without melting to slag. Will the column collapse when heated only half way to melting point, or even sooner? Or did the column really have to be weakened by Halliburton demolitions contractors in the weeks prior to the alleged crash of the jet planes?

In my quick little sketch above, you can see the central support pillar of steel, the block of truth at the top, the flaming fuel in the center, and below that, a poorly sketched rendition of our experimental test subject, Hero Richard Gage. We’ll give him a comfortable seat there, along with maybe a nice heat shield over his head, and a refreshing supply of ice water and any other snacks that our Truth Seeker might want to have at hand during this test.

Since these Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth are so absolutely certain that steel can’t melt and contribute to the material failure and collapse of a tall building, then I’m sure that the precautions we’ve taken will provide a completely safe environment for this hero of Truth to prove all of Science wrong in one quick afternoon.

This little experiment came to me while telling a Halifax Truther to get stuffed.

See also: Richard Gage; crackpot