Overheard a guy at a coffee shop in Denver say 9/11 was an inside job and I actually wanted to hear him out

I was grabbing a latte last Tuesday morning before work and this older guy in a Carhartt jacket was talking to his friend about how the towers fell too clean and symmetrical for it to just be planes. He pulled out his phone and showed thermal imaging stuff that looked like the buildings had controlled demolition charges going off from the bottom. I always thought that conspiracy was just crazy people yelling on street corners, but he had this calm way of explaining it with building codes and steel melting points. Made me wonder why the media never lets anyone on TV who questions the official story without making them look like a total nut. Now I am down a rabbit hole watching structural engineering videos on YouTube at 2am trying to figure out if he actually had a point. Has anyone else had a moment where a stranger just casually changed how you see a major event like that?

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evanfox18d ago

Wait, you actually watched thermal imaging footage at 2am?

felix_bailey4518d ago

What do you mean "actually" like it's weird or something? I read this article about how thermal cameras pick up heat signatures way better than regular night vision, and it got me curious. So I pulled up some footage of coyotes moving through a field at night, and yeah, it was pretty cool to see how hot their bodies look against the cold ground. I ended up watching for like an hour because the patterns are kinda hypnotic once you start paying attention. Not the strangest thing I've done at 2am if I'm being honest.