"A measure of abnormal long put volume was also examined and seen to be at abnormally high levels in the days leading up to the attacks. Consequently, the paper concludes that there is evidence of unusual option market activity in the days leading up to September 11 that is consistent with investors trading on advance knowledge of the attacks".[67] —Allen M. Poteshman, The Journal of Business
What strikes me as the most odd is that after weeks, even months, there still were pockets with molten metal around.
Now maybe that is normal thermal capacity for a pile of rubble this large, but it goes against what I'd expect
I'm not an engineer but I lived somewhere that used to be known for having a big bonfire and that shit would smolder for weeks and it was childsplay compared to two towers filled with 30 years worth of paper.
If the curing concrete of the Hoover dam hadn’t been water cooled, it would still have more than 30 years of cooling to go. Basically when you have literal tons of material, you have a lot of insulation, even if the material itself isn’t a great insulator.
do you have a source? sounds wild
https://youtu.be/xysnVixh1sY that cuts a few witnesses together. I do feel kinda embarrassed to share that tho, because it doesn't satisfy what I usually consider a source.
It might all be bullshit for what I know.