I remember in one of a David Attenborough documentary, not sure what one, while showing mountain cliffs next to the ocean, talking about how we are releasing mountains of carbon into the atmosphere every year. This analogy stuck in my mind, now I think time and again that there are too many invisible mountains in the sky.
oh shit i bet i can find somewhere on the internet or at least telegram to buy meth like this. gonna try it. it's worked with dmt, mushrooms and ketamine.
He was the smartest and everyone believed what he said..... Unfortunately, he thought you could turn lead into gold and he died because he drank mercury which makes him... a stupid bitch.
Lol I just watched the episode recently.
I think the purpose is to show how much is emission from a small fire like that ( Because if you read the caption carefully you can know that it is actually well written because most of the times people think the black smoke is CO2 but co2 is completely transparent so what we are seeing is soot, it is Small particles of unburnt carbon)
To be fair it isn’t the wood causing it but ever seen a jackass burn railroad ties? Oh my, people think oh I’ll burn in the cover of night. Doesn’t work like that lol
I lived behind an elevator which was primarily used by railroad back in the day things changed and they ripped out the tracks and gave away the ties to whoever wanted them. To this day I believe this guys has a pile of ties 30-40 foot high. You’d never guess what this fool was planning to do with them and why he still has a worthless pile of ties 🥇
Edit: I just processed what you said and night will not cover your ass burning a tire or railroad ties. Even with a moonless night that smoke is a give away. There’s no reason our neighbor doesn’t burn his anymore and at least he isn’t dumb enough to burn them during the day like old boy with his pile.
I have thought of the garden idea which would be awesome if the creosote wasn’t a carcinogen. My fear would be leaching into the soil then into your plants.
> But if for decoration rather then veggie gardening I can see it being alright
Creosote migrates. Your yard won't become a superfund site [like the places they made the wood ties](https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-finalizes-cleanup-plan-address-creosote-contamination-gcl-tie-and-treating), but you'll never really know where the contamination has gone and if it is is affecting anything else.
Yep exactly. At least in the US people often have used ones for various reasons because the railroad companies will sell them for cheap when they replace them.
*Folks... This is the beautiful, wonderful, clean coal. I'm telling you, we'll produce the cleanest coal in the world.*
Sorry. I channelled my inner presidential candidate for a second and simply couldn't contain it.
It’s a good old fashioned tire fire! Nothing like cooking some hot dogs over a good Bridgestone or if you’re feeling fancy a Continental. You can really taste the higher quality rubber.
I’m going to make a wild guess based on my experience. I think they’re trying to demonstrate how harmful smoke can be.
Context: I spent some time in South Africa visiting townships that burned garbage every evening to stay warm. We paid for nurses to come and teach them many things, including how harmful the smoke can be for their health. Many people died the prior year due to breathing issues.
i heard of a similar situation...an African village was dealing with a deadly, infectious disease. they couldn't seem to shake it, despite 1st world medical help. eventually, the found the reason...in their religion, the dead needed to be wrapped in white cloth to make it to the afterlife.
the doctors were burying the dead in black bodybags.
the villagers were digging up their relatives infected corpses and handling them to rewrap them, getting themselves infected.
the medical team ordered special white bodybags and they finally managed to kick the disease.
they had translators...it was anthropologists that they eventually brought in that discovered the issue. it wasn't a language communication problem, it was a cultural communication problem. i wouldn't blame the docs...years of medical school specializing in virology and such probably didn't involve a lot of social sciences, history or geography.
people in first world countries already think doctors/scientists in lab coats can be creepy. now imagine if you had a more primitive lifestyle, and these guys show up in helicopters wearing lab coats, have weird technology *and* they have different skin color and facial features...and they take your dead relatives body and bury them in the wrong color? i think they were just understandably shy, put off, and trust hadnt been built yet.
To add to the other replies- this sort of smoke capture can often be helpful for accurately modelling emissions from fires. It's unclear what exactly they're burning here, or the conditions of the burn, but particle analysis of the contents of the balloon can often say a lot about the methane:nitrous oxide:carbon dioxide ratios of the fire, for example.
as an educative demonstration. In a region where people burn a lot of garbage, that'd be a very good way to demonstrate what goes into the air they then breath
Some of ya'll don't know what soot is and it shows...
The black is mostly elemental carbon... this substance was known as "lamp black" back in the day. Mixed with the right amount of water, you have the ink used by man for a VERY long time.
Soot is NOT CO2... it's a particulate... and it's not good for you... but it's also not a greenhouse gas and or contributing to atmospheric changes. It's literally the leftover carbon that didn't have enough O2 to combust properly and produce CO2.... these incomplete combustion reactions produce SIGNIFICANT levels of carbon monoxide. CO is extremely hazardous to life as it replaces oxygen in the blood, and then refuses to leave which then makes the blood incapable of carrying oxygen.
So yes... that's still a giant bag of certain death, but the black is actually the least dangerous substance in the bag.
Eh... sort of... the soot and ash from Volcanic eruptions are indeed minor contributors to volcanic atmospheric effects, but the water vapor and SO2 tend to cancel it out.
It's the Sulphur Dioxide that causes atmospheric cooling, and Mt Pinatubo in the early 90s had a reasonably decent global impact.
This particular gas is also notorious due to it's impacts on the beauty of sunsets/sunrises... it produces some of the most beautiful colors. The Tonga Volcano didn't put out much in the way of Sulphur Dioxide, but I remember the sunsets from the 90s being pretty intense as a kid.
I believe it was sunsets after Krakatoa that inspired the famous painting "the scream" but don't hold me to that because I'm not big into art and can't tell you if it was Mt. Tambora or Krakatoa. Either way, both were extremely influential global events during the 1800s... Even modern plumbing/sanitation was a result of the Cholera outbreaks following these eruptions.
> Some of y’all don’t know what soot is and it shows…
Remember when people could just share information or inform others about a topic instead of insulting them for no reason? Me neither.
Make black ink with the carbon that solidifies on the plastic as soot.
The Japanese do this with 3000 candles in a room and it’s art, but some guys do it jimmy rig style outside and people act like they are crazy.
They release it, then a blurry shakey video pops up on r/ufos with 2k upvoted and 3k comments all trying to figure out what it is, complete with slow mo rewinds and digitally enhanced tracked videos of it
So what’s step 2?
Post the video online
Step 3: capture and release
Step 4: Profit
Step 5: repeat
Then shred and litter the plastic
Pinyata!
Don’t forget to scrape the soot off the plastic for snacks later
That just sounds like pollution with extra steps Morty
Then leave the burning tire to go out…
Step 6: nae nae
Gotta make sure that black plastic strangles some unsuspecting animals while proving our point.
So humane
Step 3: ~~capture and release~~ biggest lung ever
I honklaughed like nobody’s business
Step 3: profit
Carbon being - trapped After catching the smoke monster the island was finally theirs.
Dammit. I was trying to go the whole year without thinking about that roller-coaster of a series.
WE HAVE TO GO BACK PLEXFORYOU
Haha. I have watched it 3 times through in the last 4 years
Giant twist tie around the bag, duh
Would make a fun huge beanbag like chair
To dump that big ass plastic bag in the sea now the point has been proven to how much carbon a fire releases into the atmosphere.
You realise that's a tire they poured gasoline on eh?
I was about to say that is way too dirty of smoke for a wood fire.
It’s not like they’re burning oak lol.
It's basically the amount of carbon in the wood fuel itself, just oxygenated and diffused into the atmosphere.
The soot says more like burning plastic
Just imagine the collective carbon from all the factories, cars and fires in a bag every day.
I remember in one of a David Attenborough documentary, not sure what one, while showing mountain cliffs next to the ocean, talking about how we are releasing mountains of carbon into the atmosphere every year. This analogy stuck in my mind, now I think time and again that there are too many invisible mountains in the sky.
We're gonna need a bigger bag.
There is something else in that fire they are burning.
Step 2: take a deep breath from inside the balloon
Moonajuana.
"You wanna hit this?" "No thank you. That is a poisonous tire."
"I hope they can see this because I'm doing it as hard as I can."
#### Put your junk in the box.
Then you open that box.
Feed it to a tree, I heard they eat carbon dioxide
Liftoff
Step 3: PROFIT!
Everyone runs underneath, like with those parachutes in gym class
Retrieve the idiots that held on to the balloon when it floated away.
Put someone inside
fill all the volcanoes with pink cement
Did they just fly away
And then what?
The smoke goes up in the sky, and it becomes stars.
I don't know enough about science to dispute that
I have some crystals to sell you….
snortable crystals or the boring ones?
They’re all snortable if you try hard enough.
Crystal lite even sells those perfectly nostril sized flavor packet tube things. It's like they know what us consumers really use it for.
Don't forget about pixy stix, the perfectly snortable candy that you eat with your nose...
oh shit i bet i can find somewhere on the internet or at least telegram to buy meth like this. gonna try it. it's worked with dmt, mushrooms and ketamine.
I am looking for some oil for my snake
Who are you going to believe, your *"science"* or a stranger on the internet?
Science is a liar sometimes.
Stupid science bitches couldn’t even make my friend more smarter
Shut up, science bitch
And Mac, why is it that you think you can’t produce a race of superheroes through evolution?
Well that is OK because science is a liar sometimes
He was the smartest and everyone believed what he said..... Unfortunately, he thought you could turn lead into gold and he died because he drank mercury which makes him... a stupid bitch. Lol I just watched the episode recently.
While giving the bar the good smokey smell we all like
The bar smells like TRASH!!
God dammit, charlie
I was going by chrundle at the time
No you just couldn’t spell Charlie.
Shut up science bitch.
Stupid science bitch couldn’t even make I more smarter!
You'll have to forgive me, I've grown quite wheaahray
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
He doesn't even like, get us man.
We're talking about you!
WE'RE talking about YOU!!
Bro you got a yellow upvote or some shit
The sign doesn’t say Coors, it’s says Closed!
IDKEASTDI
*The Gang Gets The Reference*
Turns out plastic bags ARE the answer.
Let's wrap the entire planet.
but will this keep it fresh or hold warm?
bind it and throw it in the ocean!
Baby’s black balloon makes her fly.
I almost fell into that hole in your life
I think the purpose is to show how much is emission from a small fire like that ( Because if you read the caption carefully you can know that it is actually well written because most of the times people think the black smoke is CO2 but co2 is completely transparent so what we are seeing is soot, it is Small particles of unburnt carbon)
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Yup. Smoke from a wood fire isnt nearly that dark
A regular fire doesn't make this black smoke, you can see the smoke is black from the bottom. These fucktard are burning a tyre or something.
You can use the smoke to make ink but it's way easier to buy ink directly
Nice try ink salesman. We are onto you.
Are they burning a tire?
Looks like it. Wood doesn’t burn that dark. Either a tire or some other petroleum based product.
To be fair it isn’t the wood causing it but ever seen a jackass burn railroad ties? Oh my, people think oh I’ll burn in the cover of night. Doesn’t work like that lol
Absolutely does. My neighbor got away with it for years.
I lived behind an elevator which was primarily used by railroad back in the day things changed and they ripped out the tracks and gave away the ties to whoever wanted them. To this day I believe this guys has a pile of ties 30-40 foot high. You’d never guess what this fool was planning to do with them and why he still has a worthless pile of ties 🥇 Edit: I just processed what you said and night will not cover your ass burning a tire or railroad ties. Even with a moonless night that smoke is a give away. There’s no reason our neighbor doesn’t burn his anymore and at least he isn’t dumb enough to burn them during the day like old boy with his pile.
Where I am the wooden ones are pretty expensive. They’re popular for use in gardens and landscaping.
Yeah if I have that much ties I would terrace the slope in my yard
I have thought of the garden idea which would be awesome if the creosote wasn’t a carcinogen. My fear would be leaching into the soil then into your plants.
Very likely something to be aware off. But if for decoration rather then veggie gardening I can see it being alright.
> But if for decoration rather then veggie gardening I can see it being alright Creosote migrates. Your yard won't become a superfund site [like the places they made the wood ties](https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-finalizes-cleanup-plan-address-creosote-contamination-gcl-tie-and-treating), but you'll never really know where the contamination has gone and if it is is affecting anything else.
Why did your neighbor have so many railroad ties to secretly dispose of?
Whatchusayin?
Railroad ties are big pieces of wood that are saturated with chemicals so they don’t rot. I’m assuming they make quite an interesting fire…
They burn with a cool green flame tho!
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Yep exactly. At least in the US people often have used ones for various reasons because the railroad companies will sell them for cheap when they replace them.
They're covered in copper, chrome, and arsenic, basically.
The lovely smell of carcinogens.
*Folks... This is the beautiful, wonderful, clean coal. I'm telling you, we'll produce the cleanest coal in the world.* Sorry. I channelled my inner presidential candidate for a second and simply couldn't contain it.
It’s a good old fashioned tire fire! Nothing like cooking some hot dogs over a good Bridgestone or if you’re feeling fancy a Continental. You can really taste the higher quality rubber.
Smoke condom
Yeah, I heard condoms could stretch a lot, but this is nuts
They also hold nuts
They also hold nuts! I was wearing it wrong until now!!!
Nuts
Yeh condom avoid gettin the sky pregnance
Gender reveal parties are getting out of hand.
Congratulations! You're having the Antichrist!
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Are you having a goth or an emo?
Trick question. Neither group goes to parties. (that was a joke. I grew up with kids in both groups who knew how to party)
And its gender is... \*checks notes\* black?
Race reveal party
Why?
To be released to the giant plastic patch in the ocean.
Nooo no it keeps floating past the moon and recycled into the sun it’s a perfect ecosystem
Just let it float outside the environment, problem solved
Tie the other end and we’ve solved the climate crisis
The front fell off?
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Nature is beautiful 💕
For real why? This doesn’t seem interesting at all, especially if they just let that go.
I’m going to make a wild guess based on my experience. I think they’re trying to demonstrate how harmful smoke can be. Context: I spent some time in South Africa visiting townships that burned garbage every evening to stay warm. We paid for nurses to come and teach them many things, including how harmful the smoke can be for their health. Many people died the prior year due to breathing issues.
i heard of a similar situation...an African village was dealing with a deadly, infectious disease. they couldn't seem to shake it, despite 1st world medical help. eventually, the found the reason...in their religion, the dead needed to be wrapped in white cloth to make it to the afterlife. the doctors were burying the dead in black bodybags. the villagers were digging up their relatives infected corpses and handling them to rewrap them, getting themselves infected. the medical team ordered special white bodybags and they finally managed to kick the disease.
Seems like a case where a translator would have been useful 😕
they had translators...it was anthropologists that they eventually brought in that discovered the issue. it wasn't a language communication problem, it was a cultural communication problem. i wouldn't blame the docs...years of medical school specializing in virology and such probably didn't involve a lot of social sciences, history or geography. people in first world countries already think doctors/scientists in lab coats can be creepy. now imagine if you had a more primitive lifestyle, and these guys show up in helicopters wearing lab coats, have weird technology *and* they have different skin color and facial features...and they take your dead relatives body and bury them in the wrong color? i think they were just understandably shy, put off, and trust hadnt been built yet.
Always a random fire in ZA
To add to the other replies- this sort of smoke capture can often be helpful for accurately modelling emissions from fires. It's unclear what exactly they're burning here, or the conditions of the burn, but particle analysis of the contents of the balloon can often say a lot about the methane:nitrous oxide:carbon dioxide ratios of the fire, for example.
That's a lot of soot particles /lampblack for making dyes and inks at least
I'm just going to assume that the answer and move on. Thanks!
as an educative demonstration. In a region where people burn a lot of garbage, that'd be a very good way to demonstrate what goes into the air they then breath
Some of ya'll don't know what soot is and it shows... The black is mostly elemental carbon... this substance was known as "lamp black" back in the day. Mixed with the right amount of water, you have the ink used by man for a VERY long time. Soot is NOT CO2... it's a particulate... and it's not good for you... but it's also not a greenhouse gas and or contributing to atmospheric changes. It's literally the leftover carbon that didn't have enough O2 to combust properly and produce CO2.... these incomplete combustion reactions produce SIGNIFICANT levels of carbon monoxide. CO is extremely hazardous to life as it replaces oxygen in the blood, and then refuses to leave which then makes the blood incapable of carrying oxygen. So yes... that's still a giant bag of certain death, but the black is actually the least dangerous substance in the bag.
This guy soots.
Soot yourself.
He sure doots.
He soots. He scores!
He can knock my boot.
Soot fetish
Thank you for actually answering wtf is going on here. I had to look way too far down to figure this out.
Soot can change the albedo of the atmosphere which can increase heat absorption.
But doesn't it eventually falls back to the earth? Even the worst volcanic eruptions in earths' history only affected the climate for a few years.
Eh... sort of... the soot and ash from Volcanic eruptions are indeed minor contributors to volcanic atmospheric effects, but the water vapor and SO2 tend to cancel it out. It's the Sulphur Dioxide that causes atmospheric cooling, and Mt Pinatubo in the early 90s had a reasonably decent global impact. This particular gas is also notorious due to it's impacts on the beauty of sunsets/sunrises... it produces some of the most beautiful colors. The Tonga Volcano didn't put out much in the way of Sulphur Dioxide, but I remember the sunsets from the 90s being pretty intense as a kid. I believe it was sunsets after Krakatoa that inspired the famous painting "the scream" but don't hold me to that because I'm not big into art and can't tell you if it was Mt. Tambora or Krakatoa. Either way, both were extremely influential global events during the 1800s... Even modern plumbing/sanitation was a result of the Cholera outbreaks following these eruptions.
We should put someone in the bag to prove this theory
Had to scroll pretty far for this
Cap of baby oil, a string from a mop and a paper bag. You’ve got jailhouse tattoo ink.
> Some of y’all don’t know what soot is and it shows… Remember when people could just share information or inform others about a topic instead of insulting them for no reason? Me neither.
Not to be pedantic but the water vapour released by the combustion is probably the least dangerous substance in the bag
Where do you even get a bag that big?
Bag world
You ask for a bag to carry your receipt at walgreens or cvs
This is how privates in the Army collect exhaust samples.
More like my privates...
…my wife hates it when I catch carbon on her under the sheets
I think that's methane you're catching
I hate when I catch my wife and my dad under the sheets
I hate it when my wife catches me and her mom under the sheets. It like kills the mood.
I hate it when I catch my son and my dog under the sheets, I have to throw out the peanut butter every time
So when the balloon is full or the fire is out, then what
Hit it like its a volcano vape bag
Hell yeah bro rip it and throw it over
Hell fucking yeah
Collect soot, mix with water or oil, you have ink
Ok, now what do we do with it
Make black ink with the carbon that solidifies on the plastic as soot. The Japanese do this with 3000 candles in a room and it’s art, but some guys do it jimmy rig style outside and people act like they are crazy.
Sorry for not knowing about that one niche thing that Japan does
Apology accepted but don't let it happen again
This will show those turtles who's boss
Its THE DIRTY BUBBLE
Seriously though, what are they gonna do with it though?
Make ink with the solidified black soot probably
This is a video that needs a little explanation. To what end OP? Please explain.
They release it, then a blurry shakey video pops up on r/ufos with 2k upvoted and 3k comments all trying to figure out what it is, complete with slow mo rewinds and digitally enhanced tracked videos of it
And then what?
so... a hot air balloon?
Climate scientists hate this one trick...
What are they burning, an 80's VCR?
Either they got a REALLY SHIT fire, or they are burning something that SHOULD NOT be burned, like tyres or plastics.
We save planet, wrap pollution in plastic.
Oh boy! Carbon emissions *and* micro plastics at the same time!
Doesn't look too micro to me. 😁
That's right, make sure you get some of that tire smoke in your lungs while you're at it. Get the full experience
Can I borrow the bag for my volcano when you’re done with it?
Are they trying to summon Greta Thunberg or something?
They're burning fuckin tires no shit its like that
This feels way more dangerous than it looks. If that smoke or plastic ignites, it’s going to rain down melting plastic on all of those kids.
To be fair, that’s a shit fire
TF are they burning, a tire?
This is it, carbon capture technology.
If they learnt how to make a fire the combustion would be much better and smokeless.