The Great Thermite Debate...

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185. You can ignite thermite using a sparkler

You can ignite thermite using a glycerol oxydation reaction, you can ignite thermite using a propane torch it just takes longer.

Radio control does NOT obviate wiring problems, it makes the problems worse. You cannot control the radio environment around your charge especially next to a fire because flames are ionized gases so controlled, timed ignition would be impossible.

If radio control made life easier then every demolition company on earth would be using it, they don't because it is unreliable. Many are unhappy about using electrical connections because they are seen as unreliable especially as explosives (including thermite) produce a detectable EMP.

+ or minus 10 feet is a 20 ft margin of error 10 ft is approximately equal to 1 floor. These error rates are under landing field conditions where there is a guide beam; not after completing a steep bank on approach to a tall building in an environment of tall buildings.

Thermite is very detectable because it burns at such a high temperature that the burnt ends look like wax - the metal flows and drips. None of the recovered building debris had such a signature. Yes, there was molten metal seen but it is far more likely that it was depleted uranium ballast from the aircraft.

Less detectable - a shaped charge at non ideal distance, the cut would not be clean and would resemble a heat induced fracture especially if the shaped charge were not of a regular shape.

I know that conspiracy cultists make up their own reality and will spend hours finding exceptions to every rule and ignoring the glaring holes in their arguments, such as that although the beams might have been accessible from the shafts it ignores the complete impracticality of moving large quantities of explosives, detonators, wiring (or fantasy radio dets) assembling them, performing safety checks, continuity checks, circuit checks, leaving them for an unspecified length of time risking detection and accidental premature detonation.