One thing that's become apparent to me from reading this thread, that wasn't before, is that many people will describe steel beams that have been bent, as "melted."
For those experienced with the physical properties of actual heated and/or molten metal, this is a ridiculous notion. But people whose experience with molten materials is limited to cheese (or plastic, or glass, or chocolate bars on a hot day) might be forgiven for believing that melting would cause steel beams to bend, and that bent beams are therefore evidence of melting. Especially when they're looking at the aftermath of an event in which they know the steel would have gotten hot, or perhaps even saw the steel heated to incandescence, and where the pieces did end up bent.
What they're overlooking is their own real-world experience with ice. If I asked people to draw what an icicle would look like after it melted, most would draw a puddle of water and not a bent icicle. What they might not realize is that metals including steel melt like ice, not like cheese or chocolate bars.
This probably explains many of the bizarre dialogs that take place here, along the lines of "Look at all the melted steel in this picture." "There's no melted steel in that picture." (In unison...) "Are you blind, or just in total denial?"
Respectfully,
Myriad
