Aug 17, 2010: Foam Flood

xoxoxoBruce • Aug 16, 2010 11:41 pm
Miami this time, and intentional. Back in March, Sony rented a machine that would produce 2.5 million liters of foam per minute, to shoot a commercial in Miami. They flooded a whole block, but some foam clouds got picked up by the wind and carried away. I've no clue how they cleaned it up. :rolleyes:

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SPUCK • Aug 17, 2010 6:49 am
Rabies!
Pete Zicato • Aug 17, 2010 10:28 am
Reminds me of the foam hangar IOTD. I would have linked to it, but most of the pictures are gone.
dacliff • Aug 17, 2010 10:33 am
Someone really sucks at pouring beer.
newtimer • Aug 17, 2010 11:08 am
"...Sony rented a machine that would produce 2.5 million liters of foam..."

Two questions:
1) Why does such a machine even exist in our world? I cannot think of any benefit to producing so much foam, so quickly. That's like saying, "I've invented a machine that can pull the erasers off of 100 pencils a minute!"

2) Where does one go to rent that foam machine? I went to both Lowe's and Home Depot, but neither of them have it. The guy at Lowe's even called me a perve and threatened to call the cops on me.
Lamplighter • Aug 17, 2010 11:11 am
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Your user-title made you suspect
Sheldonrs • Aug 17, 2010 12:47 pm
dacliff;676985 wrote:
Someone really sucks at pouring beer.


So this is just one big monster head? ;)
Sundae • Aug 17, 2010 1:33 pm
All I can say is HERPES!
I've heard (in a completely anti-Snopes way) that it's a huge spreader of coldsores.

So there.
monster • Aug 17, 2010 4:07 pm
Sheldonrs;677013 wrote:
So this is just one big monster head? ;)


:eek:
Gravdigr • Aug 17, 2010 4:42 pm
xoxoxoBruce;676944 wrote:
I've no clue how they cleaned it up.


Dude, it's Miami. They prolly snorted it.
Flint • Aug 17, 2010 4:44 pm
xoxoxoBruce;676944 wrote:
I've no clue how they cleaned it up.

Oil breaks the surface tension and the bubbles collapse themselves. There is very little matter involved.
Adak • Aug 17, 2010 5:09 pm
Aside from making commercials interesting and midgets disappear from view, they're used for putting out fires in places like airplane hangers.

If you can make enough of it, fast enough, they do a great job *and* unlike Halon, don't destroy the ozone layer or kill people who are caught in it.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 18, 2010 1:31 am
Flint;677073 wrote:
Oil breaks the surface tension and the bubbles collapse themselves. There is very little matter involved.
But the you have soap, probably glycerin, and now oil, all over everything including the inside of those stores. How do they clean all that up?
SPUCK • Aug 18, 2010 6:19 am
They use gasoline bubbles and a match. :flamer:

That also eliminates the Groping Perves that lurk in the bubbles.:eaty:
Adak • Aug 18, 2010 8:49 am
The bubbles have a fairly short life span. You can get rid of them very quickly with the right spritz, or fanned compound, but they will burst naturally all by themselves.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 18, 2010 10:35 am
Bubbles are like pigeons, it's not them, it's what they leave behind.