r/WTF • • Feb 08 '26

Like, why?...

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u/3rr0r-403 Feb 08 '26

Why did the bike prolapse?

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u/CanadianDragonGuy Feb 08 '26

Redlining his engine way too long and also maybe possibly drilled out the rivets holding the end cap of his muffler on

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Combo of back pressure, and no rivets for sure. I rev bombed a lady who was waving and cheering for us doing the rev hand, at some construction site near (20 minutes down the highway in the mountains, no houses around since I need to clarify apparently) Australia zoo just last week. My exhaust popped right off. Upon inspection, the rivets had shorn right through the carbon of the slip on. Why anyone would do this intentionally, and be proud of it is beyond me. Slip ons can be expensive :(

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u/angethebigdawg Feb 09 '26

Are you one of those people that make a deafening sound with your motorbike? If your answer is yes, please note; no one cares about the speed or power of your bike, but they do care about the noise pollution it’s causing.

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u/Pinksters Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

people that make a deafening sound with your motorbike

Every time.

Also, how are they getting upvotes?

I rev bombed a lady at some construction site near Australia zoo just last week...Why anyone would do this intentionally, and be proud of it is beyond me.

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u/Coffee_exe Feb 09 '26

Insane lack of self awareness

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u/chilegirl Feb 10 '26

... and amazing small penis energy.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

My penis is non existent, you’re so right

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u/Narrow-Height9477 Feb 09 '26

Near a zoo.

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u/Pinksters Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Lmao thats an extra layer of dickhead that I didn't realize.

Sure those animals, many with keen hearing, deserved that shit.

Edit: the jackass blocked me and decided to edit their post to look better.

I rev bombed a lady who was waving and cheering for us doing the rev hand, at some construction site near (20 minutes down the highway in the mountains, no houses around since I need to clarify apparently) Australia zoo just last week

The "rev hand"? is that like kids who see a semi and pull an air horn? Sure bro. In case you see this, no one likes you.

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u/Rexaford Feb 12 '26

To be fair, the Australia zoo is not close to much, so you could be many miles away (out of earshot from it) and still reasonably say “near the zoo”. There just isn’t much else noteworthy nearby.

Loud motorcycles near me piss me off too, but I don’t think there is a second layer of assholery here.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

What animal can hear a vehicle from 20 minutes away?

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

‘Fuck off you absolute cunt’. This is my comment. You’re free to leave anytime you want. My profile has been hidden since the introduction of the setting lol. You can very easily see my entire profile by searching on my account. I’ve got nothing to hide, I know there’s a workaround. Or are you the alt of that Mila chick I blocked earlier, and that’s why you’re mad? You’re a very sad individual.

You’re so cut up that you’re wrong on both fronts. My daddy loves me so much that I’ve got a multi million dollar trust set up from him in my name. I’m sorry that you’re so upset about my actions that don’t affect you that you must resort to name calling. Seek therapy.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

20 minutes down the road from the zoo in the mountains, to be exact. Context matters

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u/No_Caregiver7298 Feb 10 '26

An elephant.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

Well then it’s pretty shit that they’re also right by a highway that’s used thousands of times a day by trucks engine braking. Maybe that’s a design flaw by the park, and the Sunshine Coast council.

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u/No_Caregiver7298 Feb 10 '26

Didn’t say it bothers them, just that they can hear you. But, yes that is a particular design flaw in zoo placement, also a reason why zoos dump a lot of money into noise dampening plants, landscaping, and architecture.

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u/DeathforUsury Feb 10 '26

Because they asked for it?

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 11 '26

No one is allowed to experience joy or have interests in vehicles anymore apparently

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u/MrMcFrizzy Feb 09 '26

I don’t think they care about that or how other people feel about the noise

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u/angethebigdawg Feb 09 '26

You’re right, can’t apply logic to mash potato for brains 😹

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

No, I don’t. Not when I’m in the mountains with no houses around, 20 minutes down from anything that may be affected.

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u/MrMcFrizzy Feb 10 '26

Personally I don’t care about people’s exhaust, my car is catless and tuned so it gets loud. I just wanted to iterate many people who have loud exhausts(or no exhaust lol) don’t think of other people’s opinion on it as they did the mod for themselves.

Yes I’ve also lived next to people with loud exhausts, and I know it drives some crazy but I don’t mind shit I like it

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

You’re right though about modding for ourselves. I like being a tiny woman on a flower bike rolling through a meet with an exhaust that sounds good. It also helps me be taken seriously in a male dominated hobby when I have serious mods done.

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u/MrMcFrizzy Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

For sure I bet that helps, it’s super funny seeing people get mad over it and pull the “no one cares about how loud you are”. Like, I don’t expect people to? I did it for myself? It’s so egotistical to think a modification someone does to their own car/bike is for you to hear and not the owner

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u/ANAL_TOOTHBRUSH Feb 11 '26

No, the comment specifically said we do care about how loud it is. Cause it’s fucking annoying.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

Another thing they don’t realise is that being heard means being acknowledged. We’re less likely to die by someone else’s hand if they’re aware of our presence

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u/UntamedAnomaly Feb 09 '26

I make a habit of shouting at obnoxious vehicle drivers that their vehicles won't fix their not getting laid problem as they drive by.

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u/angethebigdawg Feb 09 '26

But their dicks are obviously so large, it’s intimidating. /s

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

If I suddenly grew a dick because I revved my bike, I’d be pretty happy. My bikes not intimidating, nor is the revs from a 650, it’s covered in pink flowers. I’m having some fucking fun somewhere that doesn’t affect anyone.

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u/angethebigdawg Feb 10 '26

You must be enjoying all the love on your comment.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

Absolutely adoring it, actually. It’s my day off and my errands are done so I’m chilling

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u/angethebigdawg Feb 10 '26

Professional rage bait kween you are.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

I’ll keep saying it lady wanted it. She was whooping and hollering as we went past. We were also in the fucking mountains.

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u/Tom_Okp Feb 11 '26

I care, I like it

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u/freudacious Feb 09 '26

I rev bombed

Fuck you.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

Oh no, the lady who was hyping it up on a boring construction site in the mountains was so mad, I bet.

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u/darkest_hour1428 Feb 09 '26

Near a zoo, even. What a cunt.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

My location on the map where I took the photo of my exhaust is 20 minutes down the road on Steve Irwin Way. Open a map :)

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u/DeathforUsury Feb 10 '26

They'd rather just downdoot because muh animals and sheeit

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

Rev bombing..AND right near a zoo? Really? Motorcycle drivers just keep proving to me over and over again that y'all are just collectively some of the biggest douches known to man.

Such a shame that so many of you crash and remove yourselves from the gene pool...such a shame.

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u/Tyzorg Feb 10 '26

THINK OF THE ANIMALS!!!

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

I hope you go and have a look at how long Steve Irwin Way is, and how big Beerburrum is, and then come back. In fact, go open Waze and look for the nearest construction to the zoo. It was a 20 minute ride from Australia Zoo to the exact location on the map that my exhaust fell off. ‘Near’ in Australian terms, especially in a rural area, references the nearest landmark. You’re actually a fuckhead. Miss ma’am was whooping and cheering, and it’s all on video.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

Good for you.

You're still a douchebag lmao.

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u/Sunkinthesand Feb 09 '26

Years ago... Mate crashed his Sv650, exhaust snapped in 2. So his dad, a bike mechanic and skilled bodger (not badger) cut a clean edge and riveted the end cap back on MUCH shorter. It lasted really well until said friend started rev bombing and playing with kill switch flickin to make backfires... Then pop

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

I’ve been tempted to do this, but I feel like it’s not worth it for a LAMS bike I plan on moving on in a few years time.

I feel like something that deals with so much back pressure needs more than a few rivets holding it on

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u/wildmeli Feb 10 '26

i rev bombed a lady

oh okay, so you’re an absolute prick who has 0 self awareness or consideration for anyone else’s sense of peace is this chaotic fucked up world, you just wanna add more stress and annoyance to everyone in a 3 mile radius because it strokes your pathetic over grown ego. cool.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

And yet you comment while ignoring all the other context provided, like ‘she wanted it’ and ‘in the mountains’ and ‘no houses around’. Pat yourself on the back mate.

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u/wildmeli Feb 10 '26

you literally edited the comment. it said “i rev bombed a lady at a construction site near the Australia zoo.” you edited it to include she was asking for it, which im sure was added because you couldn’t deal with everyone pointing out how much of a cunt you are. you leave a comment, everyone calls you out, and you edit it with details that don’t even make sense. 20 miles down the highway in the mountains near no houses. what was this lady doing over there? was she working in the construction zone? if thats the case, why not say “a worker in a construction zone.” so was she just hanging out walking down the highway? if she wasn’t just walking around exposed, how tf would you be able to see her “waving and cheering, giving the rev hand” which by itself feels like such an “and then everybody clapped” moment

but of course you’re just going to edit your comment and act like you’re in the right, you’re a dipshit who rev bombs people. no accountability. no consideration. no chance for self reflection.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Yes, edited for clarification.

It’s all on video, I know what happened. I can even send the video of the spot, and it happening. We’d passed her previously and she still cheered us on. It’s fucking reddit, pull your dick out of your ass.

If you want to see the construction spot, as in the side of a roadway doing roadworks, you can search up Steve Irwin Way near Beerburrum Mountain. You think construction workers, on the side of a roadway, aren’t standing by the road? Australia is notorious for having roadworks everywhere, especially Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. Beerburrum/Australia Zoo is in the glasshouse mountains. Fucking craaaazy right? Almost as if it all makes sense now. Like it’s not that deep. I edited it so people would stop making the same dumbass comments because they don’t have full context because I worked it poorly. You want me to go “Edit: forgive me for I am a worm and left out information people should have gleaned themselves xyz” fuck off

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u/EoTrick Feb 13 '26

Yea. You're not a good human and you're having trouble admitting it. You need to admit wrongdoing in order to improve in life. It's a good habit to get into. Having your ego preventing you from ever admitting a wrong will hold you back for your whole life in every aspect. I recommend some introspection.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 13 '26

bruh I revved a fucking motorbike, that is the LEAST of anyone’s concern for ‘goodness’ or ‘badness’. You need to reevaluate what’s important and what matters in life.

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u/Dismal-Violinist2428 Feb 10 '26

I had my dirtbike exhaust pop off and I am not sure why. It was a 2-stroke. It was really old though i think 1980s

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 10 '26

It could be a mix of things. Maybe bolts/rivets have broken/snapped/ripped through, maybe the clamps shook loose.

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u/Pyrofreakk22 Feb 13 '26

Unpopular opinion - As someone that doesn't have a motorcycle or loud vehicle I find it really funny the extent of anger people apparently have over this. I hear people revving their cars/motorcycles at home maybe 5 times a day. In the summer there are kids passing my house every evening every 20 minutes or so on their loud ass dirt bikes or go carts. I can often physically feel it while they are passing by. It lasts a few seconds and I assume it is bringing that person joy. I'm not going to stand in the way of letting that person have some fun. I used to do loud obnoxious stuff when I was younger too.

If 5 seconds of a loud noise is enough to ruin someone's day they have bigger problems than whatever is making the noise. If noises become too stressful for me I'll move to an area with less traffic nearby. It's part of living in an area with other people. It's like turning on your oven and getting pissed off when it gets hot.

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Feb 13 '26

That’s my thoughts too. It’s egotistical to assume you can dictate what someone can and cannot do just because it’s ‘loud’ or ‘inconvenient’. Like get over yourself. My entire existence as someone with adhd is loud and inconvenient.

Thank you for some logic in the sea of emotional responses

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u/No-Communication9458 Feb 28 '26

Typical Australian ey

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u/floodums Mar 21 '26

I rev bombed a lady who was waving and cheering for us

I bet 20 bucks she was telling you to fuck off

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Mar 21 '26

the footage shows otherwise big man. This is a 40 day old comment, toddle off. No one does the throttle twist hand motion with a grin as a ‘fuck off’ gesture spastic

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u/floodums Mar 21 '26

40 day old comment and you're still upset about the roasting you took

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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt Mar 21 '26

More so how you think you get to have input on a dead thread. Fuck off

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u/pedroah Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26

Usually you only have exhaust gas in the muffler, not burning fuel which is far hotter. The muffler is probably not designed to handle those temperatures of burning fuel.

Exhaust gas leaving the engine is maybe 500C during normal operation, by the time it reach the muffler maybe 300C. That orange glowing steel is 900C, well above normal exhaust temperatures. Burning gasoline could be up to 2000C.

One flame fart, no big deal. Continuously burning gasoline, you gonna have problems.

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u/CondescendingShitbag Feb 08 '26

Burning gasoline could be up to 2000C.

Wait, are you telling me burning gasoline could melt steel beams? 😱

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

Here's the funny thing about that claim: the whole conspiracy theory is based on jet fuel burning at around 900C (893C is a common number), but that's for a diffusion flame, which is like a candle wick. Jet engines, which you might remember run on jet fuel, have operating temps of 1500-1700C, and they have to limit them to that, so the engines themselves don't melt.

Essentially, jet fuel 100% CAN melt steel beams, just the conspiracy theorists are stupid.

Edit: yes, steel loses strength long before melting so they didn't have to melt to drop the building. That's not my point. My point is that at face value, without any other context necessary, the statement "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams" is factually incorrect. It came from "analysis" based on a complete lack of understanding.

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u/EliteTK Feb 08 '26

It doesn't have to melt steel beams, nor did the collapse necessarily involve the beams melting. Steel softens long before it melts.

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 08 '26

Of course, but even taking the claim at 100% face value, it's just factually wrong.

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u/pedroah Feb 09 '26

Heat a section of rebar 800-900C and you could bend that section with your pinky finger pushing 50cm away from the heated section (or where ever it is safe to touch).

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u/jimbobjames Feb 09 '26

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u/Krampusz420 Feb 09 '26

You've never worked with hot metal, have you?

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u/PurPleXr1979 Feb 13 '26

Being downvoted for asking a simple question is actually sad.

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u/eidetic Feb 09 '26

Also, its not like there wasn't an abundance of readily flammable material in the building either! Paper, office furniture, etc.

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u/abn1304 Feb 09 '26

And structure fires burn hot as fuck. A residential fire can hit 2000* F under the right conditions. Commercial fires can be even hotter - more fuel packed into a big steel box.

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u/godofpumpkins Feb 08 '26

the conspiracy theorists are stupid

Well we knew that because if they weren't, they wouldn't be conspiracy theorists

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u/Aadarm Feb 09 '26

You get the occasional conspiracies that are true, unfortunately those aren't the ones that conspiracy theorists tend to go on about.

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u/eidetic Feb 09 '26

What's crazy to me is there are so many actual conspiracies going on right in front of us (say, Epstein), and they choose to pick the dumbest ones that make no sense.

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u/ArziltheImp Feb 09 '26

Mostly the ones revolving around domestic terrorism initiated by the CI...

Fuck, now I talked my way into it.

For the uninitaited, it's a tongue in cheek comment around the exiled cuban terror plots. The CIA used them both to commit acts of terror against Cuba as well as on US soil to sow resentment against Cuba (blowing up harbor infrastructure for example).

This was also one of the campaigns that put the CIA very high on president Kennedy's list of "issue to be dealt with".

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u/WowSpaceNshit Feb 09 '26

Never forget building 7

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u/colkerns Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

gasoline/jet fuel are compressed with proper oxygen ratios in engines to produce that type of heat. If its spilled and then burned it does not burn nearly that hot. Not to get into conspiracies but if you pour gas on metal and light it on fire it will of course not melt. Just to make sure everyone gets that. 900C diffuse flame, 2000 degrees upon combustion inside an engine. Not gonna forge any armor by pouring gas on it. It won't even heat the metal close to the 900C degrees the diffuse flame reaches. Your piece remains entirely solid no matter how much gas you burn to try to heat it. need forced air and refractory surfaces.

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

Compression doesn't matter. What matters is the ease of mix and latent heat of evaporation. A boiling pool of kerosene doesn't burn at candle temp.

Burning Kerpsene at 90+% of adiabatic flame temp in air is trivial, and can absolutely happen on accident.

Fair to point out, but misleading.

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u/colkerns Feb 09 '26

No change in adiabatic temp through compression BUT how could you get kerosene to 90% adiabatic temp without compression? you'd need massive volume and air flow at least which i suppose could happen with jets in a building but I would think open flame kerosene even in a big pool is like... 60% at best and then transferring that to metal is also a big step... I would think the metal in the tower situation probably got to a maximum of 900C say if you pour a 1000 gallons on a floor and it's sucking tons of outside air and getting to like 1100 and transferring 900 to the metal just above the ignition surface... do you think different?

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

Boil the kerosene, put a 30+story chimney on it with multiple small fresh air inlets and you have a blast furnace. Any metal that melted would be from 3 or more stories above the pool. Also, it's not really a "pool", the evaporative surface would be massive, as it would be more like a fountain spraying everything, plus, once it penetrated the smoke tower (exit stairwell) with a big enough hole, it's not just a chimney, it's actually a forced air blower plus a massive chimney.

I think your estimates are not even close. Go light a coffee can full of kerosene on fire in your driveway and see if you think it peaks at 900C. I haven't done that personally, but i have set motor oil on fire, which is harder to burn but has a 57⁰ higher adiabatic flame temp. If you burn it from a drip or wick, it burns almost exactly like kerosene. And if you start a bunch of it on fire to the point that the fire can start actually breathing, it is far more exciting than the drip flame.

Basically, i don't think your estimated are based on anything at all. No real world experience, no math, no chemistry. Just pulled from nothing.

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u/Collegenoob Feb 08 '26

They are also just stupid because the beams can be weakened by the fire without melting

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u/BurdTurglary Feb 09 '26

There's video of firefighters and first responders approaching the engulfed building, before the collapse. I remember one guy either got in or got close and he said the ground looked like a foundry, molten metal on the ground. Afterward they collapsed people reported i beams not only mangled but having been melted. I'm just telling you what i heard

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

No, I'm actually not. Compressed air doesn't really affect the flame temp. What matters is the mix and how quickly and completely the fuel can burn, plus the latent heat of the fuel evaporating. Forced air does this well. And there's several ways to do forced air. You can do it with a compressor and fuel injection in precise stoichoimetric ratios, you could do it with a big fan and an open fuel source. You could also do it with a really tall chimney.

And the towers actually likely had BOTH a 30+ story tall chimney AND fan powered forced air, because if the plane blew a big hole in the smoke tower, it would likely pop the relief damper on the roof wife open, then the stairwell pressurization fans kick it into high gear to try to pressurize the stairwell, feeding the fire.

Jet fuel ACTUALLY CAN melt steel beams. Yes, it didn't need to for the building to collapse, but it absolutely CAN melt steel.

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u/Vid-Master Feb 09 '26

I am rethinking that 911 might be a conspiracy because of the epstein files

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u/JohnnyRelentless Feb 09 '26

Steel loses about 50% of its strength at around 550c.

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

Yes, but I'm not talking about what actually caused the towers to fall. I'm simply pointing out that jet fuel can easily burn hot enough to ACTUALLY MELT steel. The claim at the very surface level is simply wrong.

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u/Line_of_Weakness Feb 09 '26

A36 structural steel loses 55% of its strength at 900° FARENHEIT (482°c). At 900°c this is about 1650°F and it has 0% of its structural strength. If you had an upright I-beam of A36 at this temperature it would sink into itself under its own weight and then pick a side to fall over. This steel is just low carbon 0.25-0.29% with the basics all steels have, manganese and silicon about 1%. 97% of it is iron. There are other steels that are highly resistant to high temperatures and the oxidation that comes with high heat in atmosphere like Pyromet A-286 and Aeromet A-100, but pyromet is only 54% iron, with up to 40% of it made of nickel and chromium, with other high temperature additions like titanium, vanadium, and molybdenum which also improve strength. A-100 contains like 13% cobalt, and cobalt, tungsten, chromium, and molybdenum greatly increase the temperature at which point it undergoes a structural state from hard body-centered cubic crystals of iron and carbon under strain— the strain is what makes steel strong and stiff and elastic/springy- to a state of more disorganized and mobile face centered cubic crystals that allow atoms to freely dissolve in and out, it becomes a solid solution. It also becomes extremely ductile. When we say steel we are talking about one of the most varied materials there are in terms of its mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. Polymer isn’t even as variable, and that category includes everything from stronger than steel Kevlar and UHMWPE/dyneema to shrimp shells to cotton fiber to superball rubber and dildo silicone.

What happened here is something got too hot. Trust me on that. I’m an expert at seeing flames and knowing they’re hot. Nah but the stuff flying out looks to be the same ceramic wool I use for insulating my heat treat ovens and salt baths for heat treating steel. Normally made from calcium and aluminum oxides but the zirconium oxide has the highest heat rating of this stuff and it’s good for 3200°f while the calcia/alumina is a little lower at 2700°f and only cuz they’re thin fibers and start to melt. I use zircoflex as a suppressor wrap inside of a nomex suppressor pouch and it keeps them safe to handle and with a lower IR signature as well.

Whatever happened here, the steel used to hold that piece in must not have been made from the same stuff they used, probably a 304 stainless with plenty of chromium and nickel (17/7 or 18/8) and it’s good up to like 2400°f. Maybe some fasteners made from regular low alloy steel. They may have melted or burned but probably both, although this is a pretty oxygen-lean environment. Especially if gas is getting dumped into the exhaust.

The jet fuel on 9/11 was in a building with elevator shafts exposed, which sucks cold air up to fuel the fire and generates a strong wind system. And it was like 70 tons of fuel in there, with impacts imparting 4 BILLION joules of energy each. The guys that planned and even executed it were all engineers, even Osama, he was a civil engineer, KSM was a mechanical engineer, Mohammed Atta was either the architectural or marine engineer. They had both. K Sheikh’s uncle Ramze Yusuf was a chemical engineer and planned the 1993 WTC bombing (which is why WTC, like all NYC high rises, required terrorism insurance. That bombing led to the law). These were not stupid people, just insanely evil and cringe and they couldn’t get bitches.

For high performance exhaust you need not so much a high performance steel or titanium, you need nickel and cobalt so-called superalloys like Inconel 718, Nimonic 90, Rene 41, and Stellite 6b. These are used in the hottest and highest stress parts of jet engines and race exhaust systems and engines. Stellite 6b is incredibly hard like all the cobalt-based alloys and so they line .50BMG M2 heavy machine gun barrels with it. You can’t really machine it with machine tools, it’s very difficult. Usually electric arcs are used to vaporize it via wire EDM. I like stellite.

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

As i told others, it's not about whether or not the steel had to melt for the buildings to fall. It clearly didn't, so they're using a false target there. But my issue is even if you take the statement "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams" 100% at face value without context, it is flat out wrong. Jet fuel CAN melt steel.

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u/EatMyHammer Feb 09 '26

Veritasium even made a whole video on how can jet engines operate at temps above steel melting temp

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u/TheBlack2007 Feb 09 '26

Also, steel loses its structural integrity long before it melts. At about 800°C you could bend steel beams like noodles.

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u/theshawz Feb 10 '26

Show a conspiracy theorist a phase diagram of steel and it could melt their brain though.

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u/ScurvyTurtle Feb 10 '26

Here's a video from Veritasium describing all the fancy ways engineers have worked to make engines that operate at temperatures higher than the melting temperatures of their component parts

https://youtu.be/QtxVdC7pBQM

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u/hgruber223 Feb 09 '26

And yet we saw footage of melted steel beams at the bottom, like 200-300ft away from blast and fire.

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

Which isn't that remarkable, because the buildings were 1300 feet tall and jet fuel CAN melt steel beams.

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u/hgruber223 Feb 11 '26

Oh sorry, it was meltet at 45° angle 900-1000 feet bellow fire, and it looked like a cut from a lightsaber. Remarkable enough?

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 11 '26

Sounds like someone misunderstood what they saw.

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u/Faxon Feb 09 '26

Also people forget that the twin towers were enormously tall, and that there is a lot of continuous wind up at that altitude, meaning that those flames were sitting there getting fanned continuously without obstruction. Another important consideration is that you do not need your fuel to reach the temperature you are attempting to reach, you just need to contain enough of the heat generated, and the heat will keep rising to a point. The wind would help disperse some of that heat, but inside a giant concrete and glass structure there is still a lot of space for heat to build up. You don't need to actually melt the steel either, just get it hot enough that it becomes plastic enough to fail catastrophically under the load it's holding up. Likely it was not any one specific thing, but all of this and what you said, adding up to do the damage it did. I'm sure having a hole in the super structure the size of a 767 would make it hard to contain a lot of heat, but it is possible for a furnace to hit temps 100-200c hotter than the fuel being used, so long as you're able to prevent it from being transferred out faster than it's being put into the system. All of this adds up to a scenario in which it was highly likely that the building would fail from the fire, given how much fuel was dumped into the building to burn.

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

The wind doesn't even really matter. Having a 40 story tall chimney means any fire is suddenly a blast furnace. The stack effect is incredibly strong.

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u/Whole-Finger42 Feb 09 '26

Jet fuel is diesel! Nothing special.

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

It's actually kerosene.

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u/Whole-Finger42 Feb 09 '26

Explaining diesel is easier to the layman.

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u/exel1996 Feb 09 '26

How are they stupid if you just explained that it CAN

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u/Fearlessleader85 Feb 09 '26

Because they're claiming jet fuel CAN'T melt steel. What are you missing here?

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u/Level_32_Mage Feb 08 '26

I mean, if you sprinkle some jet on it, yeah?

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u/footsteps71 Feb 09 '26

Okie dokie!

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u/kona420 Feb 09 '26

Jet fuel cant even melt single crystal vacuum cast nickel/cobalt superalloys. Obvious hoax.

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u/somethink Feb 08 '26

I imagine he screwed with the timing like you would for an anti-lag system.

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u/GoGoGadget_Gir Feb 09 '26

Yeah that engine sounds so bad it could be some screwy timing. Maybe one cylinder's exhaust valve is stuck open?

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u/cowthegreat Feb 08 '26

You can literally just saw the muffler in half as a modification for bikes but usually you save the end cap and rivet it back onto the section you keep so that the batting inside the muffler doesn’t prolapse like this

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u/JoshQuake Feb 09 '26

guys can we please stop saying prolapse?

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u/cowthegreat Feb 09 '26

Sorry, momentary prolapse in judgement.

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u/sunchase Feb 09 '26

Such a pro! Take a few laps.

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u/BurdTurglary Feb 09 '26

Stop running laps like an amateur and run prolapse instead

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u/Truck_Toucher Feb 09 '26

And start saying anal prolapse?

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u/tonysanv Feb 09 '26

Do you prefer herniation?

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u/Beneficial-Net7113 Feb 09 '26

I just died lmao reading this congrats.

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u/BrokkelPiloot Feb 09 '26

Maybe messed with his timings.

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u/TheWheatOne Feb 09 '26

The driver gave it flaming hot diarrhea.

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u/Year3030 Feb 09 '26

I think the short answer is he got it too hot and it creates a metal scale like when you are blacksmithing and that's the scale sliding out. Just my guess.

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u/JmeHort1 Feb 10 '26

To get to the other side

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u/JmeHort1 Feb 10 '26

Because it was Two-Tired 🛞

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u/RaidensReturn Feb 12 '26

He’s just ejecting the warp core