In a world with Superman, a crazy supervillain doing an inside job to try and make Supes look like he failed would be totally plausible.

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Which one is more fantastical, a flying, super-strength, alien humanoid; or a covert, large-scale demolition operation with not a single leak?

Hey, how about let's not promote right wing conspiracy theories?

I take second.

I thought the joke was he flew through the building to stop the jet.

Here for the jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams fun!

This one is the most annoying for me. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of heat, where a person clearly doesn't understand that heat can accumulate regardless of where it comes from.

It's like saying a garden hose cannot fill up a swimming pool because the mouth of the garden hose isn't as big as the pool.

In panel 2, there are speed lines showing he flew down from above to catch the plane. He didn't fly through the building.

The joke is that the building was rigged to collapse anyway, poking fun at that infamous 9/11 conspiracy theory.

The most annoying part is that steel beams don't need to come anywhere close to melting temps to lose structural integrity.

That one doesn't bother me quite as much, just because it relies on some finer numbers regarding the structural properties of materials, that people won't realistically have day-to-day experience with. They have to trust sources, which I do understand people sometimes being reluctant to do for whatever reason.

The concept of heat accumulation in an enclosed space is something everyone has experienced, though. If they have cooked, or gotten into a car in the summer, or any other manner of experiences, they should realize how it works with just a minute or less of thinking. If you contain heat, say, inside of a building, it can build up. Simple as that. Very intuitive, can be fully understood by even a small child. These folks would understand it too, if they just thought about it for a second instead of just believing randos on the internet who are appealing to their feelings.

Yeah no one will ever interpret this as a joke.

And that the building itself may contain other unknown components that may make a jet fuel fire worse

Im sure most people have experience with plastic becoming bendy before it melts. It's not hard to translate that to metal.

I am 99.9999% sure it has already been proven that jet fuel alone was able to defeat the structural integrity of the steel used under those loads, but too lazy to check because disproving a disproven again isn't worth the effort.

No need to add extra details for conspiracy theorists to latch onto.

It's not even that. It's a refusal to acknowledge the beams don't need to melt, they need to soften just past load carrying capacity. Metal increases in ductility with heat until it slowly becomes liquid and skyscrapers have a fuckload of weight on them

Yeah, okay I'll grant that.

Isn't this a plot point in Batman v. Superman? A bomb at a congressional hearing kills everyone but Superman.

i get all my facts from comic strips posted on niche internet communities