Explosion does not equal explosives.

[Alareth]

I'd like to relate a little story from personal experience.

Many years ago I lived in a small city named Houma, LA and worked in a supermarket named Canata's. While working one day there was a sudden, loud sound, like a shotgun being fired that came from the little deli/cafe at the front of the store.

Some people began to panic and thought we were being robbed.

I ran to the cafe and saw red splattered everywhere. It was ketchup.

In the aftermath of the devastation, we figured out what had happened. When the ketchup bottles on the tables started to get empty, they would be refilled. Over time citric acid began to build up in the bottle. So, on this particular day the sealed bottle was sitting in the sun, heating up and pressure building until ... BOOM!

Lessons learned that day.

1: More things than bombs explode.
2: Wash out bottles before refilling them.
3: You cannot clean ketchup off acoustic ceiling tile.

[Par]

Interesting anecdote. No doubt it’ll make its way into the next truther book under the heading of "the best argument the deunkers have against the reports of explosions". (A strawman of a strawman? You decide!)

[Mancman]

Someone in the vicinity of a recent (very bad) car accident in Manchester said "The sound was so loud that I thought a bomb had gone off. "

[jhunter1163]

I had a similar experience to the OP with an organic tea product I bought. When I called the customer-service line, a very personable young lady asked me, "Can I help you?"

I told her, "I have a problem with your product."

She asked me, "Did it blow up?"

Apparently, this was a fairly common problem. The product would begin to ferment almost immediately after production, and the byproducts would build up fairly rapidly. The use-by date was a STRONG recommendation.

[Gravy]

In other news, no bomb was dropped on The Gap Band.

[Unsecured Coins]

In other news, no bomb was dropped on The Gap Band.


NOOOOOOO!!!!

[hellaeon]

I find it funny that even in fictional movies like backdraft etc that surely many of these CT idiots have seen, there are explosions in the fire etc.

On actual documentaries about fire fighters or disasters or the common 'worlds most incredble videos' type shows its common that a situation is under control, boom the fire ignites a acylinder or combustable material and an explosion is followed by an out of control fire.

Truly dumb is the mind of the CTist

[geni]

Mechanical explosives are a class of explosions that do not require an explosive.

A standard experiment is to heat sealed vial containing 0.5 ml of water untill it goes bang.

[Quad4_72]

I once went to a controlled demo of smoke stacks pre-911. I heard the sound and said "That sounded like a plane hitting a building at 500 mph!". Cause thats a common thing to say when you hear a loud BOOM. I guess that means that a plane hit the smoke stacks correct?

[Alareth]

I once went to a controlled demo of smoke stacks pre-911. I heard the sound and said "That sounded like a plane hitting a building at 500 mph!". Cause thats a common thing to say when you hear a loud BOOM. I guess that means that a plane hit the smoke stacks correct?

So ... are you saying that the WTC has hit by flying smoke stacks?

[Dave Rogers]

A few weeks ago there was a house fire opposite my younger son's school (he's 8). That evening, when I got in from work, he excitedly told me about how "the house exploded!" This was just an ordinary 2 up 2 down brick-built Victorian terrace house with C4 mixed in with the mortar.

Dave

PS. I think everyone got out OK.