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Lighting a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPxDOEdsX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPxDOEdsX8
by tantalor 7mo ago
Lighting a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPxDOEdsX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPxDOEdsX8
- sponaugle 7mo agoI was holding the camera for some of these videos. Such a great time!
- ForOldHack 7mo agoGOOD GOD! you know that 1 oz of LoX + 1 charcoal briquette = 1 stick of dynomite. I am so glad that only grills were hurt, and a few camera lenses as the sky went dark on the video, because the light was SO BRIGHT. I am glad to have been 100s of miles away. Thank you for your work, and of corse for the many many laughs.
- gorgoiler 7mo agoIt reminds me of a comment I once read about how alien visitors, upon arriving on Earth, would be appalled to see how we live our lives at the bottom of a giant gaseous ocean of 20% oxygen. Almost everyone and everything around us of any importance is one mishap away from going disappearing in a hot, sooty flame.
- dekhn 7mo agoFor another perspective on this, see the book Shroud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_(Tchaikovsky_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_(Tchaikovsky_novel)), there is all sorts of nifty commentary on oxygen related to your point. (it's a great book in general, but the bit about our use of a volatile gas for a living environment is pretty neat)
- mjd 7mo agoArthur Clarke's “Report on Planet Three” touches on this.