22.3 Years or A response to when is "Too Soon" too soon

22.3 years

Full disclosure I don’t remember anything at 9/11 2001, but that is just a flashbulb memory because of a tragic event.  Also everyone in our class would have been 3-4 so it is unlikely they remember or comprehend the events of that day.  Other than the backlash from 9/11 that everyone felt I was relatively unaffected by 9/11 on a personal level.

There is no exact time frame for a to be too soon.  It is all dependent on the person and how the event has directly influenced them.  Even if it is right after a tragic event, the joke can still be funny.  If its clever then the joke no matter how political incorrect it is still funny.  The main problem with 9/11 jokes is they are very stupid and go for the low hanging fruit.  They aren’t clever or funny if they were than I would have no problem with them.  Also comedy is a necessary step in getting over tragedy so the sooner it starts the faster the tragedy will be got over. 

Now to the informative section of the blog.  When I was in high school I work a forge with my friends to make various metal objects.  We heat the metal on hot coals and then used a mixture of hammers and wedges to shape the heated malleable metal.  The “jet steel can’t melt steel beams” reasoning is completely wrong.  Just to start with a plane crashing into a building would compromise it structure integrity.   The beams holding up the building did not need to melt they just need to be heated up to a point where starts going through allotropy.  This is where the energy from the heat displaces atoms in the metal.  Once it start going through allotropy the structure of the beam would be sufficiently compromised for the weight of a skyscraper to bend it.