Me either. It is BS. Technically impossible. A jet burns essentially diesel fuel and the vapors are not volatile without a LOT of heat and if the tanks in a jet ever got that hot planes would be blowing up every day. Try it! Use the burner from your turkey fryer and an old pot. Start with the diesel cold and toss in a match. Match will go out or float on the top and act like a wick. The pot of diesel will not ignite. Next, heat it up slowly tossing in matches every few minutes. No fire until the diesel is literally smoking from the heat. Measure temperature once you are able to set the liquid OR its vapors alight and you too will know that the exploding fuel tank is 100% BS.
The explosive characteristics described for the jet fuel are borrowed from GASOLINE and do not exist for jet fuel except under the right conditions. And those conditions will never be attained in an aircraft fuel tank unless the rest of the plane is already on fire.
Went to public school, didn't you? Do you have any idea how stupid you look when you post something that assertive, when it is absolutely, completely, wrong? Your statement is contradicted by science and disproven by history (the above mentioned fuel tank explosions). It is as wrong as saying you can't go around the world because you'll fall off the edge.
Here is Cal Tech's explanation of just how it is possible.
Now, I expect you to read that and apologize to everyone on this thread for either lying (which is deliberately posting false information) or running your mouth about stuff you don't understand, and claiming you did. Which, when you think about it, is still lying, once removed, but it may have been through overestimating your own knowledge, so maybe you shouldn't have to wear a scarlet "L" just yet.
You may be knowledgeable about many things, but your post here is a perfect illustration of Will Rogers's famous aphorism. "It's not what we don't know that hurts us. It's what we know that just ain't so."
If you can't understand the words on the CalTech EDL page, maybe you can make sense of the diagram. If you have questions, ask. There are numerous FReepers that did actually take physics (some that teach it).
Sorry for singling you out from all the people that post that guff, but I ran across your post exactly at the point where I had had it with endlessly repeated falsehoods, myths, and lies.
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