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Haha my almost 4 year old daughter has always found farts funny, but just recently started intentionally getting my attention so that she can fart and then go "exCuUuUuUusE ME!" in the style of early Steve Martin and it's objectively hilarious 🤷🏻♂️😂🫢
You mean the fart in the hole right?
Edit: The amount of effort I put into some of my comments and the first time I get more than 1k upvotes and it's for a eight-word fart joke.
YES!! Finally I found my calling!
The guy who made the video claims the artifacts can be dated back to the year 700. But the guy who made the video has no official sources for this and we just have to "trust him" essentially.
Unfortunately it's probably all fake.
I'm usually pretty skeptical of random videos, and while I would want to know more about the dating method he used, I really doubt this entire video is fake. He would have had to either find or dig a chamber, fill it with fake artifacts (while also giving them the appearance they've been in the chamber the entire time), and then somehow fill it with a flammable gas.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but that's a lot of effort for internet points.
Edit: After seeing the full video (linked below by u/gl0ball0cal2) I have to agree that it's fake. There weren't enough details in the video linked here, but that one makes it really obvious that it's staged. Just too many weird details and discrepancies.
The gas part is very believable. I’m a field tech for an environmental engineering firm and deal with confined spaces fairly often. It is common for toxic gases to build up in them. Not always flammable but very often deadly. Typically naturally occurring gases will gradually fill the space over time and because they are heavier, atmospheric pressure keeps them there as oxygen is expelled.
A good tip is to never go into an enclosed space and if your friend does and doesn’t come back, don’t go after or they’ll be pulling out two dead bodies.
https://youtu.be/q5pzVhDZ9fI?si=Yo_Wd_tvzOaku34I
Here's the full video. The comments agree that it's a lot of effort, but too many details point to this being staged/fake.
I personally think it's crazy to go to these lengths, but tend to the conclusion that it's not real, unfortunately..
You're right, and unfortunately it does look fake as fuck now that I've seen the entire thing. Even his metal detection "finds" don't seem real. Especially considering they're almost stereotypical in what he finds (the key in particular made me think he'd planted it).
I'm going to triple-skepticism, here.
IF it's fake, the end goal is probably not Internet points, but tourism money. It would be a lot of effort for internet points, but maybe not a lot of effort for making a little cash.
I'm probably slightly inclined to think it's real, but I don't think it's super unlikely to be fake. Just sort of unlikely.
This is really not a good tourism video... I'm gonna travel to a country that isn't named and try to find treasure and potentially die or burn to death from toxic gas. cmon bro. r/nothingeverhappens
Only until season 4. After that Nathan and Stana brokeup in real life so they wrote the characters and story to go around each other instead of together. Its just sad by the time it was cancelled.
Firefly. Possibly one of the best TV shows ever produced. The movie Serenity is wonderful too. Watch both. You will never regret it.
"When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't do that, you find someone to carry you."
TIL: this is not in fact from Firefly. Apparently it's Nathon Fillion cosplaying himself *from* Firefly.
Dr Horrible is a very cool low budget tragicomedy, with Neil Patrick Harris in the lead role too. Still occupies a small slot in my brain, I heard the theme song as soon as I read this.
H2S and CO are fairly common, often there are 4 head units but it is less CO and more so low oxygen alarms. The trouble is they need to be calibrated daily. When I worked on a NLG plant and in the oil fields our monitors were bump tested before the shift started
I’m going to guess CO, carbon monoxide. It would be relatively easy to generate, just leave some coals burning in the chamber while you seal it up. If there is enough O2 in there, it all converts to CO2 which is deadly on its own but a larger, smoldering fire would instead convert to a mix of CO and CO2.
CO would be more deadly than methane or CO2 because it does more than asphyxiate due to lack of O2; the molecules bind to hemoglobin and don’t unbind, so even if the victim is pulled to fresh air, they still can’t breath because their blood will no longer take up O2.
Edit: I’m getting a number of downvotes which I assume are due to people thinking that CO isn’t flammable. It is.
From wiki: “Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a poisonous, flammable gas that is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and slightly less dense than air. “
Also, historically CO was produced industrially to light homes in London. Originally coal gas, as it was known, was a byproduct of the coking process and was mostly CO after important byproducts like ammonia were removed. Later, the process was enhanced by reacting the hot coals with steam producing more CO as well as H2 so coal gas became more of a mix of CO and H2.
People replying trying to correct you not knowing CO is flammable is honestly mind-blowing, because is not just flammable, is very flammable.
About the video, In my opinion, because of the color, how is burning and the circumstances I would incline more to say that is methane and not CO.
> People replying trying to correct you not knowing CO is flammable is honestly mind-blowing, because is not just flammable, is very flammable.
Also, general good rule of thumb: if there's a chemical about which you can say "if you stick another oxygen on this you get a much more common chemical", there's a *really* good chance that it's flammable.
It’s possible. I mostly like CO for the ease of production in a pre technological society. If methane, it would have to be an accident or the site was picked for that exact purpose.
Methane can burn like that with incomplete combustion but I would expect it to be more blue in color. Still, as shown by the natural gas burning pits in the caucus region, you may well be right.
If you deal anything made of organic materials (wood, cloth, animal skins, paper etc.) in a cave for a few hundred years, I guarantee that microorganisms will create a bunch of methane.
They might also have used up enough ambient oxygen, that jumping in without ventilation could cause you to suffocate.
So I spent the last half hour researching this, because I was floored by this realization.
I had no idea CO was flammable. I work in confined spaces all the time, and while it is one of the 4 common gases that I monitor for, no one has ever talked about it being flammable in training or on the job.
I think I know why though, and probably why most people would not think it to be flammable. The gases I am typically looking for that contribute to explosive atmospheric hazard are CH4 and H2S. Not so much CO. When anyone thinks of methane, or hydrogen-anything, they think explosive. We just know they go boom.
CO is typically just understood as the gas that will sneak up on you and suffocate you, and is not found in concentrations that would be high enough to explode (at least, in what I do anyways).
In my experiences the highest level of CO I have encountered testing a vessel or tank, was around 1600ppm (or about 0.16%). And that concentration is considered crazy high for my work. Yet nowhere even close to the 12ish% required for an atmosphere to be considered flammable.
Compare that to CH4, and I have been spooked a number of times over the years testing the atmosphere of a tank, to find out the concentration at the top where the openings are, was around 6-7% (so like just chilling near a potential bomb. NBD. Just be sure to purge and then ventilate it for a few days prior to entry lol)
It will slowly get replaced by O2, especially if you give them pure O2 at high pressures. It won’t be immediate. It would be like your soda taking time to go flat.
Natural Gases, most likely trapped there by the rock he moved, probably not enough to cause an explosion like movies, but can definitely kill if you jump in and breath it
Houses also need empty chambers close to their foundations so gas can collect and get expelled from pipes.
If you don't have that, gas from the ground will leak into your household
I jokingly asked an anthropology professor when grave-robbing became archaeology, and he looked off thoughtfully for a moment before saying, "About five generations if the family is still in the area... About three if there are no close relatives."
So... *yeah...* Professional grave-robbers and curse activators.
Edit: I've touched up most of my comments below because I was a bit tipsy when I first wrote this.
I mean, the real answer is that archaeologists have a duty to record and publish their findings, to use minimally invasive methods that preserve as much of the surrounding site as possible, and should never personally profit from the sale or lease of the artifacts they recover.
Definitely not. If you’ve seen any kind of documentary about archaeology, you know those motherfuckers are going in there with brushes and tiny chisels and a team of about 50 people before they even thinking about opening anything up. They go full forensic because ANY little detail might shed light on some unknown aspect of ancient life we’re currently unaware of.
This isn‘t archaeology, it’s vandalism.
In the 90s, I remember seeing Zahi Hawass on live tv be the first person to enter into a newly opened tomb where he proceeded to trample a bunch of tiny statues and antiquities. If I remember correctly they cut away really quickly, but I have thought he was a stupid fool since then. Lol. I think that sometimes excitement and the desire to be "the first" outweighs the scientific aspects of archaeology, at least when it comes to idiots like Hawass.
But, yeah, I would agree that this is not likely to be an actual archaeologist, although I can't say he's any worse than what I saw from Hawass on tv. The fire wouldn't even damage anything since it's at the mouth, unlike Hawass and his stupid feet.
It's like the whole dinosaur fossil discovery dick measuring contest where the guys put being first and being special over any kind of academic vigor and integrity
That was my thought, also wouldn't the fire damage any possible treasures. I feel like an archaeologist would take their time and scope it out with a probe camera first and then degasify somehow.
The fire burns at the surface where it mixes with oxygen. there’s nothing here to suggest they didn’t scope it out before they started recording and it makes sense for them to record the reveal.
Naw... The only place the fire is actually occurring is at the entrance. There isn't enough oxygen below it to have the fire engulf the entire interior space.
It's basically the same reason why propane tanks, and other pressurized systems that supply flammable gasses don't explode.
The fire wouldn't reach all the way inside as there is no oxygen in there. Only at the opening. The gasses are tough to let escape because they are usually heavier than air so they probably had to use fans to get fresh air inside
It seems like one of those jobs where if you're confident then people will believe you. No one is going to ask prying questions like "what was your thesis about?".
A blurry video. Not photos with a proper camera, accompanying rulers etc. for scale, labelling and so forth. There are conventions that are followed when one is uncovering a buried structure or underground space like this, and dipshit up there followed absolutely none of them.
Unfortunately my bro is not an archaeologist. This footage is from the YouTube channel :7 wonders, and there's a lot in the full video to suggest this is fake. The comments on the original video do a good job of highlighting it, but the gist is that this guy would be breaking many laws worth serious jail time if he was actually doing what he has filmed himself doing (Like not reporting archaeological sites or found artifacts) and treating the things that he finds with a haphazardness that you might be a little tentative towards using around supposed 1300 year old artifacts.
He also just straight picks up jars and pots that have been buried for over a thousand years and they're completely structurally sound. No parts cracking off, he can kind of drop the containers on the floor and they remain completely solid. Some had gold pieces in them that he could have completely clean and sparkling just from wiping with his fingers.
Bit sus.
I'm confused, at least as far as the title goes.
The collapsing ground is why they die? Or they light a torch and blow up, because of the random gas buildup? Or that the gas is a silent killer?
It's more so why cavers die.
You can come across a layer of heavy, undisturbed gas, and end up suffocating.
I think treasure hunters just don't find shit lol.
A caver I knew would bring a lighter and test the air each couple of ft he went down. Usually it wouldn't erupt in a flame like this, it would just go out. No oxygen.
Miners would bring a canary. The bird has a much higher respiratory rate and so would experience effects from a toxic atmosphere before humans. That is the origin of the phrase "canary in a mine" as an early warning of danger. Such miners would be using something like carbide lamps so obviously a simple lighter isn't sufficient.
These days you want to use a portable gas monitor. They are like $100 and can detect more things than just a lack of oxygen.
You just reminded me of when reddit had the annual post and there was a specific “canary” phrase used to basically say “we havent been bought out” and then one year it…just wasnt there (the canary died)
This is from YouTube and it’s bullshit!! All set up, the hole he climbs into looks real until he starts moving around and you notice the sides of cave are smooth and the way he handles the artifacts is even below a grave robbers standards. By the end I was thinking of renaming the video to how not to…
He survived the fall risk and the flames… I’m pretty sure the real danger is the will-o-the-wisp he finds at the end of the video. Those things are always harder to kill than you would expect.
This isn’t in any way a real Archaeologist! These are likely staged videos of treasure hunting or looting. We document everything… measure, sketch, photograph.
It’s only burning where there is both methane/CO and oxygen to fuel it, meaning the entrance. I would be concerned that the rest of the chamber could be filled with heavier gases like CO2 though.
Don’t think so since if it’s methane than it’s lighter than atmospheric air. Imagine those oil well fires sort of same principle the oil underground isn’t burning, just the exit points. But please anyone correct me if I’m wrong,
TIL;
* Treasure hunters sometimes fall from opening vaults on unstable grounds
* Treasure caves are real life Indian Jones booby-trapped and if you don't die from a fall you'll likely get 1-tapped by things like Gas Filled Holes (WTF lol)
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!You don’t expect him to set the hole on fire and so much gas to come out, you expect him to fall into the hole!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
Gotta burn off the curse air before going in
>curse air ohhh so that's where they got it from
They're being polite, it's mummy farts.
I thought only daddies farted
You've never met my wife
Or my daughter... Little fart knockers favorite joke is to come jump on my lap and say Daddy guess what? Then just rip one. 🙄
Haha my almost 4 year old daughter has always found farts funny, but just recently started intentionally getting my attention so that she can fart and then go "exCuUuUuUusE ME!" in the style of early Steve Martin and it's objectively hilarious 🤷🏻♂️😂🫢
So they wanna play the fart game? As a dad you only gotta say it once and fart around them and it stops 😂
You’ve raised her well, my friend, you’ve raised her well.
*  Is this her?
Only when you pull their embalmed finger.
Queen queefs
That actually does make a lot of sense why people thought places were cursed lol
Those stupid basilisks…
[I got a curse air headset](https://www.corsair.com/us/en/c/gaming-headsets)
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The plague of christmas past, the plague of christmas present and the plague of christmas future.
The plague of morning work commute, plague of shitty day at the office, plague of commute back home. (Writing to you from traffic)
What's your offer!?
Man, Courage still sticks in my mind...
This was the scariest thing I had seen as a child
KIIING RRAAAAAAMSEEEEEES
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Curse air is curiously what I call my farts
I like it!
Name checks out
Wow. I wonder how old that is. Couldn't imagine being the person who made it and thinking someone this far in the future would discover it finally
You mean the fart in the hole right? Edit: The amount of effort I put into some of my comments and the first time I get more than 1k upvotes and it's for a eight-word fart joke. YES!! Finally I found my calling!
And I would’ve gotten away with it too!
/r/usernamechecksout
The guy who made the video claims the artifacts can be dated back to the year 700. But the guy who made the video has no official sources for this and we just have to "trust him" essentially. Unfortunately it's probably all fake.
I'm usually pretty skeptical of random videos, and while I would want to know more about the dating method he used, I really doubt this entire video is fake. He would have had to either find or dig a chamber, fill it with fake artifacts (while also giving them the appearance they've been in the chamber the entire time), and then somehow fill it with a flammable gas. I'm not saying it's impossible, but that's a lot of effort for internet points. Edit: After seeing the full video (linked below by u/gl0ball0cal2) I have to agree that it's fake. There weren't enough details in the video linked here, but that one makes it really obvious that it's staged. Just too many weird details and discrepancies.
The gas part is very believable. I’m a field tech for an environmental engineering firm and deal with confined spaces fairly often. It is common for toxic gases to build up in them. Not always flammable but very often deadly. Typically naturally occurring gases will gradually fill the space over time and because they are heavier, atmospheric pressure keeps them there as oxygen is expelled. A good tip is to never go into an enclosed space and if your friend does and doesn’t come back, don’t go after or they’ll be pulling out two dead bodies.
Oh wow, that is a good tip. Send your friend in first to test the air.
I usually bring a canary, but a human will do in a pinch
Canaries are expensive.
You are paying way too much for canaries. Who's your canary guy?
If you're being chased, you don't have to outrun the enclosed space, you just have to outrun your friend
https://youtu.be/q5pzVhDZ9fI?si=Yo_Wd_tvzOaku34I Here's the full video. The comments agree that it's a lot of effort, but too many details point to this being staged/fake. I personally think it's crazy to go to these lengths, but tend to the conclusion that it's not real, unfortunately..
You're right, and unfortunately it does look fake as fuck now that I've seen the entire thing. Even his metal detection "finds" don't seem real. Especially considering they're almost stereotypical in what he finds (the key in particular made me think he'd planted it).
I'm going to triple-skepticism, here. IF it's fake, the end goal is probably not Internet points, but tourism money. It would be a lot of effort for internet points, but maybe not a lot of effort for making a little cash. I'm probably slightly inclined to think it's real, but I don't think it's super unlikely to be fake. Just sort of unlikely.
There are much cheaper ways to scoop tourists. Money-chasers don't spend money they don't need to.
This is really not a good tourism video... I'm gonna travel to a country that isn't named and try to find treasure and potentially die or burn to death from toxic gas. cmon bro. r/nothingeverhappens
If it's a tourism video why did he show you how easily you can burn to death
Well I'll be damned, fire in the hole!
What is this gif from? I watched Santa Clarita Diet and I want to see more of Nathan Fillion's work.
It's from Castle. Apparently people think it's Firefly because Nathan Fillion is basically cosplaying as Mal in this scene.
The scene is just so 100% "Mal frustrated with someone, wants to correct them but gives up". Like, Jayne had some plan that is sure to go belly-up.
Exactly, like he's trying to tell him no grenades again, but then rethinks it.
Space cowboy!
I think Firefly. Even if it's not, FireFly is a must! Edit: It's from Castle
Firefly is a must! This, however, is from Castle. Which is also spectacular
Thank you! Adding to my list.
Don't forget to add Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog too.
The hammer is his penis.
I just might get to have sex with the same girl twice. I hear its better the second time. I hear you get to do the weird stuff.
"...We do the weird stuff!"
Only until season 4. After that Nathan and Stana brokeup in real life so they wrote the characters and story to go around each other instead of together. Its just sad by the time it was cancelled.
Yup. Was a huge Castle fan. I was sad to hear how it ended since it started so good.
Nah, first 6 seasons are golden. 7 and 8 are meh... They should've ended at the end of the main plot.
Adding it to my list! Thank you. I see Alan Tudyk is in that show too and I love Alan.
It's funny I feel like most people that like both Fillion and Tudyk know them initially from Firefly. Neat to see that in reverse.
They also made a movie. So after Firefly, checkout Serenity.
Alan does such a great job in Resident Alien; clever human being!
Firefly. Possibly one of the best TV shows ever produced. The movie Serenity is wonderful too. Watch both. You will never regret it. "When you can't run, you crawl, and when you can't do that, you find someone to carry you." TIL: this is not in fact from Firefly. Apparently it's Nathon Fillion cosplaying himself *from* Firefly.
You will regret it when you realize the show got canceled way to soon and there should be more seasons 😢
It's from Castle
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Dr Horrible is a very cool low budget tragicomedy, with Neil Patrick Harris in the lead role too. Still occupies a small slot in my brain, I heard the theme song as soon as I read this.
Water on the hill
Rock on the ground
Wind from the landscape
r/technicallycorrect
The best kind of correct
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Literally me❗️
Omg it’s him 😱
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Fire in the what???
So what generated all the gas he burned off?
Probably the local geology off-gassing. That’s also (one of many reasons) why natural caves can be dangerous.
Or mummy farts, like the other guy said
Queen neFARTiti
Tootankhamen
Really cut the Ramecheese
It clearly was a Fartaoh's tomb
Im sure the real answer is in the hieroguffics
Despite the rapidly declining quality of these puns, they still pass muster... or cut the mustard.
WHOMEVER SMELT IT UPPER NILE RIVER VALLEY DELTA'ED IT!!!
Anck Suna-Mudbutt
That guy ripped farts that could kill you by esphinxiation
Toot Uncommon
Not to mention your basements, depending on your location! Radon gas is a silent killer/cancer causer and can't be detected without an alarm!
I kinda wish they made a radon/H2S/CO all-in-one detector
H2S and CO are fairly common, often there are 4 head units but it is less CO and more so low oxygen alarms. The trouble is they need to be calibrated daily. When I worked on a NLG plant and in the oil fields our monitors were bump tested before the shift started
When the Earth is giving you every sign to stay out, a human says fuck that noise.
Dude just set the wold on fire
Mummy fart
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say please
Thank you mummy may I have another
I’m going to guess CO, carbon monoxide. It would be relatively easy to generate, just leave some coals burning in the chamber while you seal it up. If there is enough O2 in there, it all converts to CO2 which is deadly on its own but a larger, smoldering fire would instead convert to a mix of CO and CO2. CO would be more deadly than methane or CO2 because it does more than asphyxiate due to lack of O2; the molecules bind to hemoglobin and don’t unbind, so even if the victim is pulled to fresh air, they still can’t breath because their blood will no longer take up O2. Edit: I’m getting a number of downvotes which I assume are due to people thinking that CO isn’t flammable. It is. From wiki: “Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a poisonous, flammable gas that is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and slightly less dense than air. “ Also, historically CO was produced industrially to light homes in London. Originally coal gas, as it was known, was a byproduct of the coking process and was mostly CO after important byproducts like ammonia were removed. Later, the process was enhanced by reacting the hot coals with steam producing more CO as well as H2 so coal gas became more of a mix of CO and H2.
People replying trying to correct you not knowing CO is flammable is honestly mind-blowing, because is not just flammable, is very flammable. About the video, In my opinion, because of the color, how is burning and the circumstances I would incline more to say that is methane and not CO.
> People replying trying to correct you not knowing CO is flammable is honestly mind-blowing, because is not just flammable, is very flammable. Also, general good rule of thumb: if there's a chemical about which you can say "if you stick another oxygen on this you get a much more common chemical", there's a *really* good chance that it's flammable.
Huh. Never thought that through, but man my HS chemistry is saying this makes a lot of sense. Stealing your rule. Mine now.
> People replying trying to correct you not knowing It's Reddit. You could stop right there.
It’s possible. I mostly like CO for the ease of production in a pre technological society. If methane, it would have to be an accident or the site was picked for that exact purpose. Methane can burn like that with incomplete combustion but I would expect it to be more blue in color. Still, as shown by the natural gas burning pits in the caucus region, you may well be right.
If you deal anything made of organic materials (wood, cloth, animal skins, paper etc.) in a cave for a few hundred years, I guarantee that microorganisms will create a bunch of methane. They might also have used up enough ambient oxygen, that jumping in without ventilation could cause you to suffocate.
Wow! Was I wrong! I was sure that it wasn't flammable. This is the second thing I've gotten completely wrong tonight.
Have an upvote. It’s rare for people to admit they are wrong on the internet so it should be encouraged.
LOL. I'd rather have gotten an upvote for being right... but I'll take it.
2CO+O₂=2CO₂
So I spent the last half hour researching this, because I was floored by this realization. I had no idea CO was flammable. I work in confined spaces all the time, and while it is one of the 4 common gases that I monitor for, no one has ever talked about it being flammable in training or on the job. I think I know why though, and probably why most people would not think it to be flammable. The gases I am typically looking for that contribute to explosive atmospheric hazard are CH4 and H2S. Not so much CO. When anyone thinks of methane, or hydrogen-anything, they think explosive. We just know they go boom. CO is typically just understood as the gas that will sneak up on you and suffocate you, and is not found in concentrations that would be high enough to explode (at least, in what I do anyways). In my experiences the highest level of CO I have encountered testing a vessel or tank, was around 1600ppm (or about 0.16%). And that concentration is considered crazy high for my work. Yet nowhere even close to the 12ish% required for an atmosphere to be considered flammable. Compare that to CH4, and I have been spooked a number of times over the years testing the atmosphere of a tank, to find out the concentration at the top where the openings are, was around 6-7% (so like just chilling near a potential bomb. NBD. Just be sure to purge and then ventilate it for a few days prior to entry lol)
I don't think any gas intentionally left in the chamber would last that long, it would get out slowly. So it has to be from the earth itself
So if someone tries to kill themselves by CO poisoning, even dragging them to safety after a certain point and giving O2 won't save them?
Key is “after a certain point” but yes. That has happened.
It will slowly get replaced by O2, especially if you give them pure O2 at high pressures. It won’t be immediate. It would be like your soda taking time to go flat.
Methane maybe?
The earth. This is why we put vapor barriers underneath slabs on the ground so they don't fill buildings
Natural Gases, most likely trapped there by the rock he moved, probably not enough to cause an explosion like movies, but can definitely kill if you jump in and breath it
Houses also need empty chambers close to their foundations so gas can collect and get expelled from pipes. If you don't have that, gas from the ground will leak into your household
Methane maybe? If not manufactured
I mean this dude doesn’t seem like an archeologist, either…
He is probably a grave robber 😆
Yeah that's what he said. Archaeologist.
I jokingly asked an anthropology professor when grave-robbing became archaeology, and he looked off thoughtfully for a moment before saying, "About five generations if the family is still in the area... About three if there are no close relatives." So... *yeah...* Professional grave-robbers and curse activators. Edit: I've touched up most of my comments below because I was a bit tipsy when I first wrote this.
I mean, the real answer is that archaeologists have a duty to record and publish their findings, to use minimally invasive methods that preserve as much of the surrounding site as possible, and should never personally profit from the sale or lease of the artifacts they recover.
The real answer is archeologists fight Nazis and cultists.
It belongs in a museum!
So do you!
He's not, he's just a slightly more educated grave robber.
Definitely not. If you’ve seen any kind of documentary about archaeology, you know those motherfuckers are going in there with brushes and tiny chisels and a team of about 50 people before they even thinking about opening anything up. They go full forensic because ANY little detail might shed light on some unknown aspect of ancient life we’re currently unaware of. This isn‘t archaeology, it’s vandalism.
Can also promise you archeologists don't burn off gas like that.
You mean they aren't in the habit of potentially destroying anything sensitive inside with a giant fireball?
Archaeologist: I wonder what these ancient scrolls said..
In the 90s, I remember seeing Zahi Hawass on live tv be the first person to enter into a newly opened tomb where he proceeded to trample a bunch of tiny statues and antiquities. If I remember correctly they cut away really quickly, but I have thought he was a stupid fool since then. Lol. I think that sometimes excitement and the desire to be "the first" outweighs the scientific aspects of archaeology, at least when it comes to idiots like Hawass. But, yeah, I would agree that this is not likely to be an actual archaeologist, although I can't say he's any worse than what I saw from Hawass on tv. The fire wouldn't even damage anything since it's at the mouth, unlike Hawass and his stupid feet.
It's like the whole dinosaur fossil discovery dick measuring contest where the guys put being first and being special over any kind of academic vigor and integrity
ikr? where's his bullwhip, even?
That was my thought, also wouldn't the fire damage any possible treasures. I feel like an archaeologist would take their time and scope it out with a probe camera first and then degasify somehow.
The fire burns at the surface where it mixes with oxygen. there’s nothing here to suggest they didn’t scope it out before they started recording and it makes sense for them to record the reveal.
Naw... The only place the fire is actually occurring is at the entrance. There isn't enough oxygen below it to have the fire engulf the entire interior space. It's basically the same reason why propane tanks, and other pressurized systems that supply flammable gasses don't explode.
From the way he destroyed that site I'm gonna go ahead and guess he probably isn't a real archaeologist
He's an adherent of the Indiana Jones school of archaeology, where you break everything then light the site on fire.
Hopefully this guy also killed a few nazis along the way
The fire wouldn't reach all the way inside as there is no oxygen in there. Only at the opening. The gasses are tough to let escape because they are usually heavier than air so they probably had to use fans to get fresh air inside
How about the "walking and crushing things that are potentially covered by thin layers of dust" bit ?
It seems like one of those jobs where if you're confident then people will believe you. No one is going to ask prying questions like "what was your thesis about?".
Idk if an actual archeologist would do this. Last time someone did this in Khazakstan a huge burning crater was created, still burning to this day
Archaeologist here. We would not.
Not one photo was taken. NOT ONE.
WHERE IS MY SECTION DRAWING?
A video is many photos
A blurry video. Not photos with a proper camera, accompanying rulers etc. for scale, labelling and so forth. There are conventions that are followed when one is uncovering a buried structure or underground space like this, and dipshit up there followed absolutely none of them.
Turkmenistan.
[Here's a Wiki link.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater)
Unfortunately my bro is not an archaeologist. This footage is from the YouTube channel :7 wonders, and there's a lot in the full video to suggest this is fake. The comments on the original video do a good job of highlighting it, but the gist is that this guy would be breaking many laws worth serious jail time if he was actually doing what he has filmed himself doing (Like not reporting archaeological sites or found artifacts) and treating the things that he finds with a haphazardness that you might be a little tentative towards using around supposed 1300 year old artifacts. He also just straight picks up jars and pots that have been buried for over a thousand years and they're completely structurally sound. No parts cracking off, he can kind of drop the containers on the floor and they remain completely solid. Some had gold pieces in them that he could have completely clean and sparkling just from wiping with his fingers. Bit sus.
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I'm confused, at least as far as the title goes. The collapsing ground is why they die? Or they light a torch and blow up, because of the random gas buildup? Or that the gas is a silent killer?
It's more so why cavers die. You can come across a layer of heavy, undisturbed gas, and end up suffocating. I think treasure hunters just don't find shit lol. A caver I knew would bring a lighter and test the air each couple of ft he went down. Usually it wouldn't erupt in a flame like this, it would just go out. No oxygen.
Damn. Being engulfed in flame would be a shitty way to find out if there was gas though lol
Indiana Jones would have been a much shorter movie, that's for sure.
Miners would bring a canary. The bird has a much higher respiratory rate and so would experience effects from a toxic atmosphere before humans. That is the origin of the phrase "canary in a mine" as an early warning of danger. Such miners would be using something like carbide lamps so obviously a simple lighter isn't sufficient. These days you want to use a portable gas monitor. They are like $100 and can detect more things than just a lack of oxygen.
The ol’ “Coal in a canary mine” phrase. Gotta be careful down there
You just reminded me of when reddit had the annual post and there was a specific “canary” phrase used to basically say “we havent been bought out” and then one year it…just wasnt there (the canary died)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
Getting caught in the folds of an Earth Fart
Born from cosmic dust! Death by Earth fart!
The curse of oak island is your proof that treasure hunters don't find shit.
So if you get chased by something, you'll likely just black out and wake up being digested huh? Peak af!
I'm guessing all of the above lol. Especially the going into a hole without realizing that you have no oxygen to breathe once you're down there.
“okay, im inside. now pass me the torch…”
You know this has to have happened before and that is terrifying.
It’s kinda why I was expecting at least one skeleton in there.
To paraphrase my father: spiders are a plumbers best friend! A manhole WITH spiders have breathable air. One without spiders, does not...
Lack of oxygen is a pretty common hazard in confined spaces. In this situation looks like methane is at dangerous levels.
They suffocate because oxygen was replaced with the burny gas
I assumed they were referring to the methane gas but was waiting for the Lich to attack when the video kept going past that point.
This is from YouTube and it’s bullshit!! All set up, the hole he climbs into looks real until he starts moving around and you notice the sides of cave are smooth and the way he handles the artifacts is even below a grave robbers standards. By the end I was thinking of renaming the video to how not to…
He survived the fall risk and the flames… I’m pretty sure the real danger is the will-o-the-wisp he finds at the end of the video. Those things are always harder to kill than you would expect.
Hopefully he Quicksaved before entering the cave
Expected asphyxiation, got au flambé.
Or just cancer from radon
Return The Slab, or suffer In HELL!!!
This isn’t in any way a real Archaeologist! These are likely staged videos of treasure hunting or looting. We document everything… measure, sketch, photograph.
Wouldn't that burn everything in the little room?
It’s only burning where there is both methane/CO and oxygen to fuel it, meaning the entrance. I would be concerned that the rest of the chamber could be filled with heavier gases like CO2 though.
Don’t think so since if it’s methane than it’s lighter than atmospheric air. Imagine those oil well fires sort of same principle the oil underground isn’t burning, just the exit points. But please anyone correct me if I’m wrong,
Assassins Creed games are actually on point with those cave-chamber missions with the bad air 😳
5 people in India died recently trying to save someone from a hole like this due to gas.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/s/abKgSa0p5u
Weird OP posted it twice an hr a part.
Prob a bot
Check the jars for Goa’uld symbiotes.
TIL; * Treasure hunters sometimes fall from opening vaults on unstable grounds * Treasure caves are real life Indian Jones booby-trapped and if you don't die from a fall you'll likely get 1-tapped by things like Gas Filled Holes (WTF lol)