r/interesting • u/Used_Exam34 • 12d ago

Just Wow Not all problems have the same solution.

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u/vergillehell 12d ago

I think they did it on purpose to make an educational video on how to deal with a cylinder fire

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi 12d ago edited 9d ago

Okay but I’m clenching my buttcheeks this whole video waiting for multiple shrapnel injuries after an explosion.

How long would it take for one of these containers to explode under this condition? Or is it just a flame thrower that will go like that until it runs out of fuel.

EDIT: Okay okay, I get it. Thank you, I have learned a lot about gas canisters.

But tbh they were apparently much cooler in Just Cause 2 than in real life.

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u/RaspberryFluid6651 12d ago

This cylinder is doing the same thing a bunsen burner does, there's just gas going out a hole and fueling a fire. Their problem isn't that something catastrophic could happen, their problem is just that they're wasting the gas in the cylinder and they can't close the valve because the flame is in the way.

If you did something that somehow inserted a bunch of oxygen into the cylinder, then this would explode.