Jetfuel can’t melt asbestos beams
You could be entitled for compensation
Submitted 2 months ago by eah@programming.dev to [deleted]
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GargleBlaster@feddit.org 2 months ago
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sure can weaken them though
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yes and office fires can too
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos???
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
n-no?
Photonic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They were just trying to market the stuff asbestos they could
mech@feddit.org 1 month ago
Dad? Where are you?
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The real question is did they stand by their product? What was the magazine printed on? Angryduck.jpg
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 2 months 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 2 months ago
“we couldnt live the way we do without it”
😆 if only
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
we couldnt live
Ftfy
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month 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 🤦🏼♀️ is fireproof , so the fire didn’t consume everything.
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That sounds horrible they better get the asbestos out if there quick.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mesoTHEleoma
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
My neighbor’s didgeridoo teacher hired a monkey gronker for his 9/11 party last year and everyone was pretty offended. Next year I think he’ll settle for live music instead.
snooggums@piefed.world 2 months ago
You try too hard.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
DrWorm@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
None of those are predictions, and high profile buildings are destroyed all the time in media
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But what about the Johnny Bravo one at 1 minute 55 seconds, that one is a blatant prediction.
UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For the French of lemmy, I recommend this YouTube video to know more about asbestos : www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCau3jMu-Wg
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 2 months ago
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.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Somebody still has to mine it though
cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 months ago
Veritasium has a good video on it.
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 2 months 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 pulled out and relaid on the table