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California's largest wildland fire started by hammer sparks

kwhitefoot 7y ago
If the risk of this happening frequently is high then people could be encouraged to us hammers with non-ferrous striking surfaces. See https://remcoproducts.com/the-differences-between-non-sparking-and-anti-static-tools/ https://remcoproducts.com/the-differences-between-non-sparki...
- jsiepkes 7y ago
  I think creating a spark free state is going to be a hard thing. This needs another kind of solution. Just like a single pin sized hole shouldn't sink a cruise ship a single spark shouldn't be able to burn down half a state.
- oh-wow-oh-wow 7y ago
  So, because we know of one rare instance in which a hammer started a fire, we now have to change all the hammers? This is the kind of bumblefuck thinking that leaves us in a state of constant emerging disasters, because the details of the incident ruin the perception of the principle at work. What you've just suggested is that, since we know a recent winner of the Mega Bazillions Ultra Lotto used mom's birthday for the winning numbers, we should figure out which mom's have the right birthdays for the next lotto drawings, to know who the winners will be, and tell them to buy tickets for their winning numbers. The reality is that a wide array of strategies can be employed to win a lottery, and most of them will amount to chasing superstitions. Your suggestion amounts to a superstition about metal claw hammers, and since because the sparking is possible, due to the metallurgy and composition of the materials used upon them, well then that nugget of factoids must verify an essential truth at the core of the superstition. Not really, pal. Not quite. Not at all. To secure the money at play in the lotto, stop gambling, and change the game to one of active donation (maybe a strategy of selective burns). This will dispell the gamblers paradox, that tempts us to bet even harder on the claw hammers being the root of all fires at least one (and maybe more) time(s).

If the risk of this happening frequently is high then people could be encouraged to us hammers with non-ferrous striking surfaces. See https://remcoproducts.com/the-differences-between-non-sparking-and-anti-static-tools/ https://remcoproducts.com/the-differences-between-non-sparki...

jsiepkes 7y ago
I think creating a spark free state is going to be a hard thing. This needs another kind of solution. Just like a single pin sized hole shouldn't sink a cruise ship a single spark shouldn't be able to burn down half a state.
oh-wow-oh-wow 7y ago
So, because we know of one rare instance in which a hammer started a fire, we now have to change all the hammers? This is the kind of bumblefuck thinking that leaves us in a state of constant emerging disasters, because the details of the incident ruin the perception of the principle at work. What you've just suggested is that, since we know a recent winner of the Mega Bazillions Ultra Lotto used mom's birthday for the winning numbers, we should figure out which mom's have the right birthdays for the next lotto drawings, to know who the winners will be, and tell them to buy tickets for their winning numbers. The reality is that a wide array of strategies can be employed to win a lottery, and most of them will amount to chasing superstitions. Your suggestion amounts to a superstition about metal claw hammers, and since because the sparking is possible, due to the metallurgy and composition of the materials used upon them, well then that nugget of factoids must verify an essential truth at the core of the superstition. Not really, pal. Not quite. Not at all. To secure the money at play in the lotto, stop gambling, and change the game to one of active donation (maybe a strategy of selective burns). This will dispell the gamblers paradox, that tempts us to bet even harder on the claw hammers being the root of all fires at least one (and maybe more) time(s).