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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
No, even the Diesel vapor does not ignite easily - that's why you have to compress the hell out of the Diesel aerosol to get it to ignite.
But it also is just compressed. There's no spark to ignite it. Anyways, the idiot in the video apparently used a lighter.
It's also heated - that's why older Diesel engines take a while before you can start them up. That's what a spark is: Heat.
And the "mere" compression heats the aerosol to a temperature of 700 to 900 °C, by the way. That's the temperature of the flame of a Bunsen burner.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
And the "mere" compression
Yeah, I wasn't trying to imply that it was insignificant. Just that it's pretty irrelevant in the presence of an open flame.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Their top tip is partially wrong, though: Diesel is not "highly flammable" :)
It's not even flammable.
Are you saying that if I tossed a lighted match into a bucket of diesel fuel, the fuel would not start burning?
Not sure what the formal definition of "flammable" is, but IMO that's a pretty good heuristic.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Are you saying that if I tossed a lighted match into a bucket of diesel fuel, the fuel would not start burning?
SInce Mythbusters turned a freakin' blowtorch onto a trail of liquid diesel and it refused to light, I'm gonna say 'yes'.
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@RaceProUK Well, if she's supposed to be an Amazon, no pit hair could ruin your suspension of disbelief.
You know that's the sort of thing Data would pick up on and ask Picard about.
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@RaceProUK Huh. I must not have seen that one.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Driver uses lighter to look into fuel tank; you'll never guess what happens next
He gets transported to Narnia?
Nah, Fillory.
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Are you saying that if I tossed a lighted match into a bucket of diesel fuel, the fuel would not start burning?
Correct, it would not. Petrol/gasolene, on the other hand..
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
And the "mere" compression
Yeah, I wasn't trying to imply that it was insignificant. Just that it's pretty irrelevant in the presence of an open flame.
And, as @RaceProUK pointed out, an open flame does not suffice to ignite Diesel.
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Only in Finland:
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@Rhywden No you need to use Diesel and water into a drum. Then you might get it to light.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Their top tip is partially wrong, though: Diesel is not "highly flammable" :)
It's not even flammable.
Are you saying that if I tossed a lighted match into a bucket of diesel fuel, the fuel would not start burning?
In order for a liquid to ignite, it has to first heat up to its flash point. As @Rhywden already mentioned, the lowest flash point for diesel is is 52°C (~125°F) and ranges up to 96°C (~205°F). Tossing a lit match into a bucket of diesel will extinguish the match before the diesel is heated to its flash point.
If you took some diesel saturated wood or sawdust, on the other hand, you'd probably have a pretty good size blaze.
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Not sure what the formal definition of "flammable" is, but IMO that's a pretty good heuristic.
IIRC, liquids with a flash point < 100°F are considered flammable.
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
So let me get this straight:
- Dude has a lighter. Wants to light his cigarette.
- Instead of lighting it with said lighter, idiot decides to take the gas cap off his car's fuel port, and lights that instead.
- To fully certify his bad-ass-ness, he then proceeds to place the cigarette in his mouth, and light it using the flames coming out of the fuel port.
Did I get all that correct?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
So let me get this straight:
- Dude has a lighter. Wants to light his cigarette.
- Instead of lighting it with said lighter, idiot decides to take the gas cap off his car's fuel port, and lights that instead.
- To fully certify his bad-ass-ness, he then proceeds to place the cigarette in his mouth, and light it using the flames coming out of the fuel port.
Did I get all that correct?
I think this guy is angling for a darwin award.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
So let me get this straight:
- Dude has a lighter. Wants to light his cigarette.
- Instead of lighting it with said lighter, idiot decides to take the gas cap off his car's fuel port, and lights that instead.
- To fully certify his bad-ass-ness, he then proceeds to place the cigarette in his mouth, and light it using the flames coming out of the fuel port.
Did I get all that correct?
It is possible that his lighter's reservoir is empty whereas the car's is full, and the igniter might still create a spark.
Still a bad way to light a cigarette though...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Still a bad way to light a cigarette though...
Doesn't matter. Smoking is bad for you no matter how you light 'em.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
I think this guy is angling for a darwin award.
How about blowing a fuel tanker?
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@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
I think this guy is angling for a darwin award.
How about blowing a fuel tanker?
It's a 2fer link!
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http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/canada-moose-escapes-from-zoo-and-goes-on-cow-raping-rampage
no comment
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@Jarry A Møøse once
bitraped my sister....
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@anotherusername Hey, y'all, that's the same dang møøse! GIT 'IM!
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@Jarry said in In other news today...:
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/canada-moose-escapes-from-zoo-and-goes-on-cow-raping-rampage
no commentI'll comment!
Although it is not known if the sex acts were consensual or perceived as an act of aggression by the cows themselves, the act of mating for the moose is a rather normal thing, explains veterinarian Annie Beaudoin, of the Calgary Zoo.
The fact that they had to point out that "the act of mating for the moose is a rather normal thing" kinda appalls me. Like, for how many sexually-reproducing animals is the act of mating abnormal? Certainly not many that have many generations!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
The fact that they had to point out that "the act of mating for the moose is a rather normal thing" kinda appalls me. Like, for how many sexually-reproducing animals is the act of mating abnormal? Certainly not many that have many generations!
Pandas. Cattle and horses are often artificially inseminated. But pandas just don't want to live, apparently.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
But pandas in captivity just don't want to live, apparently.
FTFY. They don't tend to have much trouble breeding in the wild.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Jarry A Møøse once
bitraped my sister....Does that mean we can call your sister a cow?
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@anotherusername Only two years for blasphemy, instead of death?! Indonesia's going extremely liberal!
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THIS IS WHY DEFAULT PASSWORDS ARE BAD, PEOPLE
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY REASONS WHY DEFAULT PASSWORDS ARE BAD, PEOPLE
FTFY
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@Jarry said in In other news today...:
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/canada-moose-escapes-from-zoo-and-goes-on-cow-raping-rampage
no commentThat's somewhat confusing since female moose are also referred to as cows. Perhaps the article should have used the term "cattle" instead, just to reduce confusion.
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YOU'RE FIRED
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But....wait....no!
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No guns? No toilet paper? Solution:
The poopootov cocktail.
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with integrated WhatsApp and Facebook
Oh for fuck's sake. Are there any good browsers?
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The Norwegian browser maker, which was acquired by a Chinese tech company in 2016, has decided that Opera Reborn should focus on an intriguing new feature: the ability to pin Facebook, WhatsApp, and Telegram messaging apps to the left side of the browser. So, instead of tabbing to another browser window to respond to a friend or colleague, the chat window is right there in front of you. There are keyboard shortcuts to switch between multiple chat apps, too.
Um... isn't that what Chrome and Firefox can do too?
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@RaceProUK Not on a vertical strip, like they show on the screenshots.
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@Zecc good god what level of monster would have their bookmarks bar ON THE LEFT rather than under the address bar like
GodGoogle intended?
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@hungrier Have you considered...
...the luxury advanced web browser, Sleipnir?
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@hungrier Opera's had a VPN and adblocker built in for months already.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Zecc good god what level of monster would have their bookmarks bar ON THE LEFT rather than under the address bar like
GodGoogle intended?I guess that's just what happens when you're used to vertical text. The wonder is that they put those on the left instead of the right.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
...the luxury advanced web browser, Sleipnir?
Maybe I'll try it out when I get home. If the Facebook and other bs is optional in Opera I'll probably just stick with that.
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Opera's had a VPN and adblocker built in for months already.
Right, but those things are notably different from Facebook and Whatsapp, in that they are not Facebook and Whatsapp
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@hungrier I was referring to the onebox
Opera Reborn gets new design, VPN, and ad-blocking
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@hungrier It has a bunch of old Opera gestures, but it's super weird, and the website is exclusively in Japanese now. It works just fine, and has English UI, though.
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Well, Microsoft can't make a browser, but they can do this: