Ye Olde Videoe Clippe Threade - Page 97

glatt · 01-15-2008, 12:54 PM

V, read the comments over in Boing Boing before you try this. Some people have burned themselves trying to recreate what they saw in the video.

BigV · 01-15-2008, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

V, read the comments over in Boing Boing before you try this. Some people have burned themselves trying to recreate what they saw in the video.

thx for tip, what comments?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-15-2008, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV

You have touched me, xoB. More specifically, you have touched my inner pyromaniac. OMG. I am going to be in so much trouble. Thanks. I think.

ps I'm not angry, that's fire!

OK, enjoy... but don't blame me if you feel pain, after lighting your balls on fire.

lookout123 · 01-15-2008, 07:44 PM

make sure you are recording it though. for scientific purposes, of course.

Sundae · 01-18-2008, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Great balls of fire. SFW but don't let your kids see this.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/102949...ke_fire_balls/

The London Borough of Bexley has classified that link as pornography. Huh. Given V's reaction I spose it is in a way

ZenGum · 01-18-2008, 09:32 AM

The ants are interesting and I loved the contrast at the end, but did you notice at 0:46 the narrator refers to them as "aliens"? Huh?
It's not so big, though. In Japan there is a species of ant whose colonies allow their nest to connect to the nests of other colonies of the same species. Huge interconnected supernests develop. IIRC correctly sizes of more than 100 square kilometers are found!
And having been in some apparently endless underground shopping malls here, I'm left wondering...

Drax · 01-20-2008, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Great balls of fire.

Drax · 01-20-2008, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Have you asked him to?

Yep. He no do dat.

Clodfobble · 01-15-2008, 02:30 PM

It would seem that the key is not to oversoak the ball, as mentioned in the video. But there's obviously some technique to it.

There's a similar trick where you dip your hand in water first, then rubbing alcohol (which burns at a low temperature,) and you can set your own arm on fire for a short time with no ill effects. I have since seen video of it through the wonders of the internet, but the idea's been around forever: back in high school, we had to do a project where we acted out a video of a Greek or Roman myth. A classmate decided to use this trick in his group's video of Prometheus. Except he screwed it up somehow, and instead ran around screaming for several seconds before managing to put it out. I know this because they kept the footage in their final project, hoping for pity points from the teacher. (It didn't work.)

BigV · 01-16-2008, 02:27 PM

Update:

Punchline first: I didn't die, since there's no internet in hell. Sorry guys.

Now for the more useful observations. It *is* hot. It's a freakin ball of fire, people. I have a tiny first degree burn on my left thumb where I held it first and longest. It does burn just like in the video with a candle-like flame about six inches in length. It needs to be smothered to go out. Or dropped in the snow. They both work. It can be tossed or juggled easily. It is very distracting to watch the flame part and not be focused on the ball; that's how I dropped it (and lost it) in the snow last night. It's very easy to light but now you have two burning things in your two hands, whatcha gonna do? That's how I (barely) hurt my thumb.

If you keep moving, and don't get distracted, they're quite easy to handle. For more tender hands it could be painful, perhaps even a small second degree burn. For tougher hands, higher pain and heat tolerance, they're not much of a problem. There is the counterintuitive problem of how to get away from the heat. Your first instinct is to drop it. And that will work, but unless you're standing in a snowbank, now the fire is on the floor. The graceful and dramatic way to get away from the heat is to smother it in your fist. It definitely feels weird to clench a fireball in your fist in self defense, but once it's out, the ball is barely warm. It is not singed at all, not smoking, not hot, easy to handle.

I had the most trouble lighting it and then managing to close and put away the lighter quickly and smoothly while I was ... getting burned on my other hand. Well... that's what practice is for.

It was fun, easy, dramatic and only slightly dangerous. Recommended for fully tamed and domesticated pyros.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-17-2008, 06:46 PM

Amazing ant colony.

monster · 01-17-2008, 07:29 PM

Couldn't they just have bunged a camera down there and left the poor critters alone?

Drax · 01-20-2008, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Couldn't they just have bunged a camera down there and left the poor critters alone?

Agreed. Still, very informative.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-20-2008, 07:12 PM

Too much fun.

Shawnee123 · 01-18-2008, 09:54 AM

Alien Ant Farm?

01-15-2008, 07:44 PM	#4
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01-18-2008, 09:32 AM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	The ants are interesting and I loved the contrast at the end, but did you notice at 0:46 the narrator refers to them as "aliens"? Huh? It's not so big, though. In Japan there is a species of ant whose colonies allow their nest to connect to the nests of other colonies of the same species. Huge interconnected supernests develop. IIRC correctly sizes of more than 100 square kilometers are found! And having been in some apparently endless underground shopping malls here, I'm left wondering... __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-16-2008, 02:27 PM	#10
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Update: Punchline first: I didn't die, since there's no internet in hell. Sorry guys. Now for the more useful observations. It is hot. It's a freakin ball of fire, people. I have a tiny first degree burn on my left thumb where I held it first and longest. It does burn just like in the video with a candle-like flame about six inches in length. It needs to be smothered to go out. Or dropped in the snow. They both work. It can be tossed or juggled easily. It is very distracting to watch the flame part and not be focused on the ball; that's how I dropped it (and lost it) in the snow last night. It's very easy to light but now you have two burning things in your two hands, whatcha gonna do? That's how I (barely) hurt my thumb. If you keep moving, and don't get distracted, they're quite easy to handle. For more tender hands it could be painful, perhaps even a small second degree burn. For tougher hands, higher pain and heat tolerance, they're not much of a problem. There is the counterintuitive problem of how to get away from the heat. Your first instinct is to drop it. And that will work, but unless you're standing in a snowbank, now the fire is on the floor. The graceful and dramatic way to get away from the heat is to smother it in your fist. It definitely feels weird to clench a fireball in your fist in self defense, but once it's out, the ball is barely warm. It is not singed at all, not smoking, not hot, easy to handle. I had the most trouble lighting it and then managing to close and put away the lighter quickly and smoothly while I was ... getting burned on my other hand. Well... that's what practice is for. It was fun, easy, dramatic and only slightly dangerous. Recommended for fully tamed and domesticated pyros. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

01-17-2008, 06:46 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Amazing ant colony. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-17-2008, 07:29 PM	#12
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Couldn't they just have bunged a camera down there and left the poor critters alone? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-15-2008, 12:54 PM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	V, read the comments over in Boing Boing before you try this. Some people have burned themselves trying to recreate what they saw in the video.

01-15-2008, 02:30 PM	#9
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	It would seem that the key is not to oversoak the ball, as mentioned in the video. But there's obviously some technique to it. There's a similar trick where you dip your hand in water first, then rubbing alcohol (which burns at a low temperature,) and you can set your own arm on fire for a short time with no ill effects. I have since seen video of it through the wonders of the internet, but the idea's been around forever: back in high school, we had to do a project where we acted out a video of a Greek or Roman myth. A classmate decided to use this trick in his group's video of Prometheus. Except he screwed it up somehow, and instead ran around screaming for several seconds before managing to put it out. I know this because they kept the footage in their final project, hoping for pity points from the teacher. (It didn't work.)

01-20-2008, 07:12 PM	#14
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Too much fun. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-18-2008, 09:54 AM	#15
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Alien Ant Farm?

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