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Creative Speculation

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14. thermit?

Sun Jan 1, 2012, 06:34 PM

Jan 2012

"..powdered aluminum was used in the incendiaries dropped on Dresden"

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A non-conspiracy theory about 9/11 that deserves discussion: [View all] hedgehog Jan 2012 OP

You found it! MineralMan Jan 2012 #1

Thanks - I didn't know what the group was called! hedgehog Jan 2012 #5

well? wildbilln864 Jan 2012 #2

The article posits that the debris more or less formed hedgehog Jan 2012 #6

Who? wildbilln864 Jan 2012 #11

I'm sorry - I don't follow this story very closely and I hedgehog Jan 2012 #13

well... wildbilln864 Jan 2012 #15

Flashes of light on lower floors Ace Acme Nov 2013 #19

titanium melts at over 3000 degrees! wildbilln864 Jan 2012 #3

OK, maybe not the titanium, but certainly the aluminum! hedgehog Jan 2012 #4

I haven't followed the discussions at all, and just came hedgehog Jan 2012 #8

It's not practical. It requires that somehow a crucible be created Ace Acme Nov 2013 #22

Explosive aluminum from the planes gyroscope Jan 2012 #10

Read the article at the link. Solid block aluminum hedgehog Jan 2012 #12

thermit? wildbilln864 Jan 2012 #14

So? Jet fuel is highly explosive gyroscope Jan 2012 #16

jet fuel is mostly... wildbilln864 Nov 2013 #20

yes it's "cocumented"... wildbilln864 Jan 2012 #18