Ok, this is trivial in these times but... How are people burning buildings this effectively? Like, I'm not asking for potentially illegal details, I just had no idea buildings were that... easily torched
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
If you actually intentionally start a fire and prevent anyone from putting it out, it remains an incredibly effective tool of destruction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
This is a whole thing, old school Golden Age SF used to predict all the time that fire departments would become obsolete because future architecture would be made of "fireproof materials" This turned out to be way, way too expensive to be realistic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Especially when we discovered how dangerous asbestos is All our actual advances in fighting fires came from eliminating the sources of fire and increasing the speed of detection and response
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Barring some kind of massive breakthrough in manufacturing we are not going to have cheap plastic houses that just don't catch fire, in fact global warming means we're going the other way on that
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Like sure, even back when they were writing those stories in the 50s you could make everything more fire resistant by minimizing the use of wood in favor of masonry or rebar It just costs so much more and takes so much longer and everything ends up so heavy
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