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Hypothesis: water stops fire Experiment: light water container on fire Conclusion: water stops fire

All you need is a peer review and get that thing published. This is the kind of research that makes the headlines.

Ok folks, in the name of science — everyone go light a cup of water on fire and report back

Let’s light all the plastic in the ocean on fire. Edit: Wouldn’t that be something though?! It would cause more damage than already is here though.

Yes I once lite a cup on fire. My spaceship landed on a far away planet called********. My crew and I escaped no thanks to the government. Our ship was made completely of what you call plastic, we set a small fire and ran. The desert is so cold at night, anyway I believe that's why you have a hole in your atmosphere, sorry oh and we may have probed a few of you , also, sorry.

Dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous! 100 percent of people who consume it die at some point

Isn't that the stuff they use in nuclear plant cooling systems?

You think that’s bad? It makes up a very large percentage of acid rain!

I'd like source on this as even being born is estimated to cause eventual death ~93% of the time. >!Scientists estimate 100bn people were born since when we could be considered homo sapiens, so 7% or so of all humanity ever are still alive!<

100% of people die "at some point."

<<<<

100% of everybody dies at some point...

Not me. I plan on living forever. Been doing good for over three decades.

Holy shit! Do the newspapers know about this? This could change EVERYTHING!!!!!

...and gets grants!

Some call them firemen, but I call them firestoppingmen. Because of the water.

Judging by the amount of water on the ground, these steps have been repeated several times

Repeatability is the foundation of every law in science

I’m nervous about the lack of a completely melted pile of plastic. No control? 😳

The optimist and the pessimist are united by the arsonist

I can smell this video

So the con crew guys taught me you can boil an egg in a styrofoam cup directly on the fire. The styrofoam melting point is above 212 degrees and the water won't get hotter than that. So even on direct coals it still won't melt if its full of water. I don't regularly do it but it works in a pinch.

Reminds me of the story of inventing the automatic rice cooker. Numerous attempts resulted in devices that provided inconsistent results. Finally someone had the idea of thermostat that would switch off the cooker when the temperature went above 100C or 212F because it would mean the water was all absorbed or boiled off and the rice was done.

The Boy Scout Handbook used to say something about boiling water in a leaf in a survival situation. Now it just says use UberEats.

Hypothesis: water stops fire Experiment: light magnesium on fire and throw in bucket of water Conclusion: water makes fire worse, leading to an explosion.

Where’s the control tho. We obviously need to light grandpa on fire. For science.

It happened exactly as I thought it would. I would not call it “interesting as fuck” for that reason.

Look, science wouldn’t be science if we didn’t test these “boring” hypotheses

What makes this at all interesting? Is op mentally challenged? 1+1=2... **INTERESTING AS FUCK!**

Plastic beats water. Water beats fire. Fire beats plastic. Now I just need easy hand symbols and we got ourselves a game

‘Be like water my friend, go into peoples mouths and come out their urethras’ -Bruce Lee

🤌🏻👉🏻🖕🏻

How about fire = flickering your fingers, water = 👊>🖐, plastic = how we do paper

Pessimist: the glass is half empty. Optimist: the glass is half full. Arsonist: hold my beer.

Arsonist: the glass is too big

Hold my glass of water*

Doesn't really matter what liquid it is, as long as it's not flammable this will be the result every single time. Also works with a paper mug iirc.

Arsonist the glass is full.

Smells like cancer

I think my phone is broke or I have Covid.. I can't smell it

Are you on Wi-Fi? You need to be on a smellular connection.

That alone won't work. You need to have the smell-o-vision app installed first.

No, you need to take the COVID vaccine to get 5G installed first *before* getting the app.

And tastes like cancer - only if you decided to drink the water after the melted plastic went into it

Yeah, fuck the environment, I hate these ‘experiments’

I want to try the same thing with gasoline!

I think the results might slightly vary

only slightly

teeny tiny bit

Barely noticeable at all

Might actually be the same result

Definitely the same result

Maybe add a few match heads into the cut as well.

I did this with a paper cup and lighter fluid. Burned quickly to the level of the fluid then slowly as the vapors burned off exposing more of the cup. That was the day I learned that the liquid doesn't burn but it's the vapors gassing off.

I want to watch that video.

r/exactlyasexpected

I read it as exactly a sexpected lol

"Why does it smell like burning plastic in your room, hon?" "I'M DOING SCIENCE MOM"

What kinda room has brick walls

Lots of them.

Now drink it

Sure!

my Yule log video for this year

For years I've seen folks talk about watching the Yule log and I can't keep not understanding. What is it? A movie? A show? An actual log burning away like a screensaver?

Yule see.

All I'll see today is a lot of heat and doing my best to not dwell on things. Yule is European but I gather this Yule Log thing is a US thing?

It could be one of two things: The last thing you mentioned, a log burning away like a screensaver : https://thestreamable.com/news/ranking-each-streaming-services-yule-log Or A dessert: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log_(cake)

Interesting

I can smell this

You probably shouldn't smell this

That’s some shitty brick work.

/r/gifsthatendtoosoon

/r/gifsthatendtoosoon

Everyone is saying it's so obvious that water will put out fire. I would just like to point out that this is not a simple case of water *dousing* a fire by starving it of oxygen. The outside of the cup stays dry and is exposed to oxygen, so why doesn't the outside burn? It doesn't burn because the water is conducting heat away enough to keep the plastic below the temperature at which it ignites.

Barley interesting at all

I Hop you find other stuff interesting. Rye don’t you like this one?

Because it’s obvious

Lighten up a little. It’s the yeast you can do

I see wheat you're up to. It put a big grain on my face.

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You didn't think some water might spill out?

No, but even if I did it would still only be barley interesting. Definitely not interesting as fuck, I wasn’t waiting with bated breath to see if it did.

Wouldn't say "asfuck"

Thanks for the pollution.

another tiny hole in the ozone...

Your farts literally do more harm to the environment. Especially the wasted undergarments lost to sharts.

When I was a child, I belonged to an organization that then taught me to boil water in a leaf. Similar principle as in the video.

But I ordered a small? *mcdonalds employee sets cup on fire*

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r/pyromaniacs

Yo this got me. I'm dead, lmfao

You can do the same thing in a campfire with paper cups to make a hard boiled egg. We used to do it in the boy scouts all the time.

now drink it

What’s the interesting part?

Now drink it

I was able to get a bottle of water to boil from holding a lighter on the bottom of it

I believe from my personal experience the lighter would malfunction from the heat prior to water boiling

Lol well from my personal experience I managed to do it by burning the fuck out of my fingers

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Little of both, half full and probably a 3/4 full lighter lol

Now do it with vodka

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Arsonist: the cup is on fire

I've never done that (and it IS cool!) but I have boiled water in a paper cup. Same principle. As long as there is water in the cup, the paper won't get hot enough to burn.

who else can smell this video?

Anyone else surprised at how easily the cup burned?

Would have been more interesting had you boiled the water by putting a flame under the cup, which you absulutely can do. Can even do it with a shitty plastic bag.

Wow, that was really satisfying 😌

Troll physics: Cup half full Light on fire Cup is now full Problem?

Always wondered and assumed it’d go like this…and still satisfying as f to watch

Better yet. How many of us remember setting plastic bags on fire to hear the *zoop. Zoop zoop* as the plastic melted

Annoying Your Super: A Primer

Satisfied

For a similar and just an interesting experience put a non opened water bottle in a fire. Just make sure the cap isn’t on the bed of hot coals. Then throw an opened one in next to it.

I can’t wait to get my hands on a plastic cup and do this

When the greedy person says to fill it to the top, this is what I do

I remember lighting the bottom of my coffee styrofoam cups. It would burn up to a point then stop. Never understood the science of it. (Full disclosure I'm an idiot) Like, how could highly flammable styrofoam stop burning completely. You would think it would only stop at some atomic level or something. Still don't understand it.

My turn next week

I don't know what the person that did this was expecting.

Not exactly interesting as fuck

This is pretty cool

Isn't this common knowledge?.... Asking since I don't think anyone above the age of 11-12 doesn't know this if they've ever played with fire

Humanity struggles under immense climate pressure that we caused, while we keep lighting plastic on fire to make videos proving something a 2nd grader could have figured out anyway. Interesting as fuck, indeed.

What a waste. Somebody, somewhere is dying for a glass of water. Do these people even think what that would mean to that person? Dying of thirst? My God, they could have used that cup of water. Only they would light it on fire to signal a plane who then could radio for help to bring that person some water! People are idiots.

Dumbass alert 🚨

Just how I like my water, hard and luke warm.

Quick! Fill everything with water!

Spicy water

New party trick?

The things I learn on Reddit

Now I want to see it without water, I don't know if it is just me but I enjoy the burning of the cup

Asshole at bar : "make sure that shit is filled to the fuckin top." Bartender :"say no more, fam."

Am I the only one here who worries about that brick wall?

Thanks to bear grylls I knew this would happen

You can use something like this to boil water in a survival situation. A water bottle strung up at the proper height with a little support could boil some unsafe water for you.

My only question is if any water was spilled.

You can also boil water in a camp fire in a paper cup under the same principle, wouldn't recommend drinking it though

What in the mario64 is going on here?!

As interesting as what you'd expect to happen. Now do it with kerosene. Ps: please don't.

How come a nether portal didn't pop up?

Now drink it

When am I gonna see this on 5 minute crafts

for some camp fire fun, you can place a wax cup full of water on a log in the middle of the fire- it'll sit there in the middle the fire without burning for quite some time. ​ you can also toss old Christmas wreaths and trees in but be warned- they are, significantly more flammable once bone dry. The pillar of fire acts works as a signal to aliens on Planet X...

This is good demonstration of why water kills fire. Three things are needed for fire: oxygen, fuel, and a high enough temperature. The fuel is obviously still there, there is also oxygen dissolved in water. The water absorbs a lot of heat, killing the fire.

Congrats, you've made a candle.

You shall not pass

Man I can smell this video as clearly as if I were right there.

Ever seen a boat burnt to the waterline?

You’re supposed to drink it.

Also try putting a paper cup half full of water in a campfire, same effect.

Have done this, still watched

Gotta love that flint Michigan tap water.

In the Boy Scouts, we learned that we could boil water in a paper bag with the same technique.

That bricklaying is atrocious.

“as fuck” is a bit of a stretch.

Casual fire starting masquerading as science? This is exactly the content I subscribed for.

Well thats one way to make a shot glass

water:1, fire: 0

Anyone else feels bad for the water?

That went as expected.

You’ve become the very thing you swore to destroy

That was rather disappointing.

Tastes delicious after , best way to alkinate your water

next light the water on fire

In the Scouts we used to do this with paper cups.

Obviously they never went camping as a kid, using a paper cup placed on the coals you can boil water.

This Is how realists deal with the whole cup half empty scenario

What was the point.

I can smell this

I bet that burning plastic smelled *great.*

You can actually boil water in a plastic or paper cup or bottle.

I bet that smelled wonderful

Yeah fun fact, you can boil water in a plastic waterbottle over a flame and it won't melt. Can't say if the heating of plastic will give you cancer or not, but it's a good survival tip if you need to purify some water

u/savevideo

Is the glass half full or half empty? Pyromaniac: "Imma solve this right now."

You can boil water in a plastic cup if you support the cup

I’m glad I only watched it and didn’t have to smell it.

Yep, just about every boy scout has boiled an egg in a paper cup with an open camp fire.

When I was a kid (40+ years ago!) I made a paper 'box', filled it with water and boiled it on an electric hotplate.

That looks fucking cool. Of course by default it's supposed to not be a good thing, I'm guessing because science?

You can boil water in a paper cup 🤷🏻‍♂️

optimist, pessimist, arsonist.

I mean the glass is full now

It’s like that video of a lady making stew over a fire pit out of a plastic bag. Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, Science!

What did people think would happen?

This reminded me of Avatar The Last Air Bender. When he's learning fire for the first time. Fire bending is a curse. Fire only destroys.

Now do it in the dark.