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There's worse videos out there. There's one from Kazakhstan where there's four window cleaners who aren't even in a bucket, they're just in harnesses hanging from ropes with the winds whipping them wayyyyy way out and them slamming them into the side of the building. Apparently all four died.
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Jun 4, 2017 18:28
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Not sure if this was actually explained in the last few pages, so here is a real easy explanation on fire. It takes three thing to make: Fuel, heat, AND oxygen. Oxygen is neither a fuel, nor a heat source.
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Jun 4, 2017 19:27
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schwaa posted:Not sure if this was actually explained in the last few pages, so here is a real easy explanation on fire. It takes three thing to make: Fuel, heat, AND oxygen. Oxygen is neither a fuel, nor a heat source. What if it's very hot oxygen?
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Jun 4, 2017 19:29
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Jerry Cotton posted:What if it's very hot oxygen? Are you the fuel? Then yes. Boom.
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Jun 4, 2017 19:31
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schwaa posted:Are you the fuel? Then yes. Boom. I am the fuel.
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Jun 4, 2017 19:35
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Oh sorry fool.
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Jun 4, 2017 19:35
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 "A high-rise residential building leans against another building after toppling over in a central neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt, June 1."
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Jun 4, 2017 19:39
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh sorry fool. Jer fools can't melt steel beams
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Jun 4, 2017 19:40
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schwaa posted:It takes three thing to make: Fuel, heat, AND oxygen. Oxygen is neither a fuel, nor a heat source.
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Jun 4, 2017 19:43
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schwaa posted:Not sure if this was actually explained in the last few pages, so here is a real easy explanation on fire. It takes three thing to make: Fuel, heat, AND oxygen. Oxygen is neither a fuel, nor a heat source. Four things: Fuel Heat Oxygen Chemical reaction Halon stops fires by messing with the chemical reaction instead of blocking oxygen or removing heat.
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Jun 4, 2017 19:54
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Collateral Damage posted:Technically you need an oxidizer, which is not necessarily oxygen. Flourine, Chlorine, etc will quite happily provide that part of the equation as well, and are generally less picky about fuel. That reminds me of the wonderful substance Chlorine Trifluoride. A Fluorinating agent that's a better oxidizer than Oxygen.  "It can burn stuff sane people might think of as non-flammable, like bricks, or asbestos... or thing that have already been burned." - Hank Green.
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Jun 4, 2017 21:03
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Three-Phase posted:Four things: Ak Gara posted:That reminds me of the wonderful substance Chlorine Trifluoride. A Fluorinating agent that's a better oxidizer than Oxygen.
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Jun 4, 2017 21:18
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We live on a planet with a ridiculously reactive atmosphere, where a ridiculously good solvent falls from the sky and covers 70% of the surface. There’s an unshielded fusion reactor of astronomical size just 1 AU away. It’s just that our biology is adapted to these things.
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Jun 4, 2017 21:59
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The famed children's story about strange weather falling from the sky took a dark turn in the latest of the series: Cloudy With a Chance of People.
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Jun 4, 2017 22:03
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Ak Gara posted:That reminds me of the wonderful substance Chlorine Trifluoride. A Fluorinating agent that's a better oxidizer than Oxygen. Please use the superior quote: John D. Clark posted:It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water — with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals — steel, copper, aluminum, etc. — because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.
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Jun 4, 2017 22:11
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Platystemon posted:We live on a planet with a ridiculously reactive atmosphere, where a ridiculously good solvent falls from the sky and covers 70% of the surface. There’s an unshielded fusion reactor of astronomical size just 1 AU away. I have always been amazed by this. Just a few more percent nitrogen in the atmosphere and we literally could not have discovered fire. No modern society as we know it.
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Jun 4, 2017 22:33
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Our current atmosphere would be toxic to the earliest forms of life on Earth. One creature's paradise is another's hideous death zone.
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Jun 4, 2017 22:48
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VectorSigma posted:Our current atmosphere would be toxic to the earliest forms of life on Earth. One creature's paradise is another's hideous death zone. Our current atmosphere was (originally) generated by the earliest life forms on earth. Oxygen was a toxic waste product that primordial anaerobic microbes released into the atmosphere, until they made it so toxic for themselves that they could only continue to exist deep underground or inside other organisms, protected from the air.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:26
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VectorSigma posted:Our current atmosphere would be toxic to the earliest forms of life on Earth. One creature's paradise is another's hideous death zone. That's our only hope against the viruses, bacteria, and giant monkeys currently frozen in the siberian permafrost.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:28
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There's gotta be some exotic biochemistry out there that uses a halogen much like animal life uses oxygen. There's probably some alien out there that farts HF.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:37
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zedprime posted:Or you can keep it the simple triangle that is inherent to all redox reactions by calling it reducer (fuel), oxidizer, and initiation energy to cover all the quibbles on the page. Halon extinguishes by raising the bar for required initiation energy, hot oxygen can bring its own initiation energy to the party etc. OSHA: Simple, man. Keep it simple.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:49
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zedprime posted:Or you can keep it the simple triangle that is inherent to all redox reactions by calling it fuel, fire, and that which I desire to cover all the quibbles on the page.
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http://i.imgur.com/wdQfg3K.mp4
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Jun 5, 2017 01:05
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This ha s a certain amazing beauty to it.
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I don't even Why is there a roller machine that can and will murder people that only has the purpose of squishing things it just spat out
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Jun 5, 2017 01:13
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Have you never made pasta? Industrial noodles that.
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Jun 5, 2017 01:15
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BattleSausage posted:I don't even I watched it a few times, and I can't tell what the end product is, but it seems like whatever it is, they are using the giant roller machine to mix it up.
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Jun 5, 2017 01:22
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They're dying silicone I think.
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Jun 5, 2017 01:30
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Sammus posted:I watched it a few times, and I can't tell what the end product is, but it seems like whatever it is, they are using the giant roller machine to mix it up. *Rolls up your post, stuffs it back in the machine* *gets arm stuck in machine, is rolled into paste*
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Jun 5, 2017 01:33
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Jun 5, 2017 01:34
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Nebalebadingdong posted:
Ugh, get a room you two!
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Jun 5, 2017 01:43
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There is enough high-quality silicone rubber in each roll to make anywhere from 25 to two adult toys.
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Jun 5, 2017 01:53
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Three-Phase posted:There is enough high-quality silicone rubber in each roll to make anywhere from 25 to two adult toys. GE Cafe?
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SniperWoreConverse posted:They're dying silicone I think. Correctamundo.
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Every big black dildo comes with the fear of losing one's arm rolled into it.
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I can't express how happy I am that this gif continued until the material was fully mixed
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Isn't that a (really lovely and dangerous) way to de-ice your windows? Most people who do it don't use a hose tho.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Isn't that a (really lovely and dangerous) way to de-ice your windows? Most people who do it don't use a hose tho.  you learn something everyday...
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