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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

So...is it a good thing, or a bad thing that it took TWO HOURS to evacuate the WTC after the fire alarm went off?

Wait, I think I can answer my own question:

Probably a bad thing that it took so long to evacuate

but

a "good" thing that asbestos πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ is fireproof , so the fire didn't consume everything.

mesoTHEleoma

[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

For the French of lemmy, I recommend this YouTube video to know more about asbestos : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCau3jMu-Wg

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 146 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It’s kind of wild just how useful asbestos actually was. Aside from the obvious issues, it was genuinely a miracle material that did all sorts of cool things. Too bad our insides hate it more than just about anything else.

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still is, honestly. We still use asbestos in a ton of stuff, but we're just generally a lot more careful about using it fortunately, and not doing as many open-air asbestos shoveling competitions upwind from the schoolyard.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Haha yeah. That’s where I recently learned about it myself. They’ve been on a hot streak of some really fantastic videos as of late.

[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

streak of some really fantastic videos

OP:

THERE'S A VERITASIUM VIDEO ABOUT THE 4 FREEDOMS MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!!!!!

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to know this retired Air Force jet pilot guy. He had an asbestos glove he took. You could put it on and just bury your hand in the bbq coals, hand didn't even get warm. It was like straight up magic.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Medieval kings used to do party tricks where they'd throw their (asbestos) tablecloth into the fire to impress their guests, and then have it pulled out and relaid on the table

[–] GargleBlaster@feddit.org 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jetfuel can't melt asbestos beams

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Sure can weaken them though

[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos??????

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They were just trying to market the stuff asbestos they could

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Dad? Where are you?

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The real question is did they stand by their product? What was the magazine printed on? Angryduck.jpg

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why are they advertising the mineral asbestos in asbestos magazine? Surely nobody is reading that publication because they're on the fence about the stuff?

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

We knew it was bad then too. This is cynical propaganda to try to normalise its use in the face of a mounting public health crisis.

Much like fossil fuel companies today will continuously put out statements and ads and fund studies that either refute their impact or minimizes it. The cigarette industry pioneered this approach which essentially consists in putting just enough doubt and uncertainty into the public discourse to make regulation seem unnecessary overreach, despite overwhelming consensus from the subject matter experts who unlike lobbyists can't just buy their way into getting real estate in magazine stands.

[–] Redstone1@lemmings.world 11 points 1 week ago

"we couldnt live the way we do without it"

πŸ˜† if only

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

That sounds horrible they better get the asbestos out if there quick.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Is this real?? Seems to me all throughout the mediathe world trade center twin towers were teased about being destroyed since the day they were built. Like a certain ilk of people already knew for years that this was going to happen, and they took a secret sadistic pleasure in it because it meant [XYZ whatever financial/metaphysical rewards] to them πŸ€”

[–] DrWorm@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

None of those are predictions, and high profile buildings are destroyed all the time in media

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But what about the Johnny Bravo one at 1 minute 55 seconds, that one is a blatant prediction.

[–] DrWorm@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah yeah yeah, movies love blowing up tall buildings, it's nothing new, but I'm talking about the April 2001 Johnny Bravo clip at one minute 55 seconds, the poster on the wall shows a picture of WTC exploding from the top, captioned "COMING SOON."

[–] DrWorm@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Do you know how I know that’s not the WTC? Because there’s only ONE TOWER

What do you think is more likely? A Johnny Bravo animator predicted a terrorist attack and put a clue in a children’s cartoon? Or they made a reference to an existing movie and put it on a movie theater?