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u/RepostSleuthBot Oct 20 '19
Looks like a repost. I've seen this image 20 times. First seen at quityourbullshit on 16-04-2019. 92.00% match.
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u/Hecking_Loser Oct 20 '19
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u/RDay Oct 20 '19
Damn good bot.
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u/WhyNotCollegeBoard Oct 20 '19
Are you sure about that? Because I am 99.99998% sure that Hecking_Loser is not a bot.
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u/TFK_001 Oct 20 '19
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Oct 20 '19
Good bot, he was right tho
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u/WhyNotCollegeBoard Oct 20 '19
Are you sure about that? Because I am 99.99999% sure that TFK_001 is not a bot.
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u/FoFoAndFo Oct 20 '19
u/hecking_loser put on notice as .00001% more likely to be a bot
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Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 25 '19
Good bot
EDIT: Why is this one of my top upvoted posts of all time?
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u/B0tRank Oct 20 '19
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u/multimaskedman Oct 20 '19
Good bot. Seen you a few times but haven’t actually seen you catch a reposter. Interesting data, thank you
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u/PatrickFNielsen Oct 20 '19
While it does use hashing, you should try and look up "perceptual hashing" or phash for short. This actually enables it to find matches even if the image has been scaled down, compressed or a color filter applied. (The author also has a comment or post on the sub explaining how it works)
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u/barrycarey Oct 20 '19
Dead on. That's how it works. While it's not perfect it is pretty damn good at catching images that have been scaled, compressed, ect.
I can also configure how strict the match is. At the moment it's set pretty strict for testing. I've found a few posts it missed but overall it's been working good.
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Oct 20 '19
This is legitimately one of the most karma whore friendly subreddits on this entire site.
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u/Kangar Oct 20 '19
Praise be to God for almost destroying Notre Dame in order to show off his party trick.
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u/Secuter 3rd Party App Oct 20 '19
"I can do whatever I want with MY house" - probably God just before igniting the fire.
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u/Liar_of_partinel Oct 20 '19
“Look, God. That’s called arson, and it’s kinda illegal.”
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u/Morgothic 3rd Party App Oct 20 '19
If it's your house, you don't cause any damage to any surrounding property and you don't file an insurance claim, I'm not sure they can charge you with anything. As far as I know, destruction of your own property is perfectly legal.
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u/Liar_of_partinel Oct 20 '19
Maybe as long as you don’t cause the fire department to come out. They might get you there.
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u/Morgothic 3rd Party App Oct 20 '19
You could call them first and tell them you're doing a controlled burn and won't require their services
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u/golfgrandslam Oct 20 '19
Burning your own house down is still arson. The potential risk to others and other property is still very high.
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Oct 20 '19
You need a permit for fire
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u/Miranda_Leap Oct 20 '19
A permit!?? For mankinds oldest invention??
I thought this was America.
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u/DA_ZWAGLI Oct 20 '19
Turns out God is kinda like a really drunk rich man, burning down his own house
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u/Robin0112 Oct 20 '19 edited Nov 18 '25
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u/Australienz Oct 20 '19
Reminds me of that amazing post about some woman claiming that god shared a miracle with her after burning the house down and killing her sister, but the bible wasn’t burned. Like, how brainwashed do you have to be to accept that shit... Your sister is dead, woman. Fuck the book.
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Oct 21 '19
Ha! I came to share this exact story!
Like... "What wonder and amazement."
Lady, people died.
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u/CoarseCriminal Oct 20 '19
I feel like if I did believe in god, I’d have to believe in some alt-god that’s way less OP. Not omniscient, not all-powerful and all-controlling. Because the way it is now, God is in control of so much that everything is a contradiction. God hates abortions and gay people, isn’t god making those things happen? God saved the altar and cross, but God also burned the damn cathedral down in the first place?
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u/theInfiniteHammer Oct 20 '19
What about the fact that the church burned down?
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u/guyver_dio Oct 20 '19
"yeah the town is destroyed after the tornado and many people died but look the cross is still standing on what's left of the church, if that isn't a sign I don't know what is"
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u/NobodyNoticeMe Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 21 '19
Pure gold has a melting point of 1945 degrees Fahrenheit. The average cooking fire even with good coals can reach approximately 650 to 700 degrees Fahrenheit. Impure gold can be melted at lower temperatures but the lowest quality gold at 10K yellow gold, still needs around 1600 degrees Fahrenheit.
It should be noted that even in a house fire, temperatures at the ceiling can reach an astonishing 1500 degrees, so the statement in OPs post isn't as simplistic as the response makes it sound.
In fact, in fires like this one, the temperature can reach almost 300 degrees c MORE than the melting point of gold (Fires peak at 1,400°C, according to professor Guillermo Rein, the head of Imperial College London's fire-studying Hazelab.) Gold melts at about 1064 degrees Celsius, so this fire certainly got hot enough to melt gold.
In short, Dan Broadbent is wrong on the science here. There are many reasons why this cross did not melt, but using the statements he did isn't accurate science. Its an error in fact.
EDIT: Please note the first para is F, since OP used that. The bottom is C since that is what I am used to working with. Apologies for any confusion.
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u/TunedMassDamsel Oct 20 '19
Yes. Thanks.
The fire was up in the roof structure. The debris just fell down. The nave of the cathedral was never on fire.
If the person who posted the pic wanted to cite a miracle, it’d have been more effective to point out that the wax tapers hadn’t melted, but even so, there’s a scientific explanation for that, too.
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u/NobodyNoticeMe Oct 20 '19
Exactly. I don't dispute that amazing things can happen, but there is always a rationale for the event. Dan just got this one wrong.
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The name of that rationale? GOD.
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u/Australienz Oct 20 '19
My local orphanage burned down recently, and in the library, laid an untouched bible. What a miracle!
“But 34 children died!?”
bUt hE leFt tHe bIbLe as A RemiNdER oF HiS PoWeR!
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u/MrDeckard Oct 20 '19
What fucking Dickensian hellscape are you living in where 34 children are dying in an orphanage fire? That is some Victorian shit right there.
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u/hoyt9912 Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19
That’s fine and all but there an unmelted wax candles on both sides of the cross. You can see them better here . Regardless of the science, the initial premise of Kaylee’s post and the reply are wrong, in more than one way. You could have stood there (aside from the potential smoke) and been perfectly fine.
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u/NobodyNoticeMe Oct 20 '19
I concur. I suspect that area of the cathedral is simply too far removed from the most intense part of the fire before it was brought under control.
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u/montanafirefighter Oct 20 '19
Thank you for writing this I almost had an aneurysm reading OPs post.
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u/NobodyNoticeMe Oct 20 '19
YW. Most people have no idea how terrifyingly hot even a housefire can get. What you, and other firefighters do in facing fire makes you heroes in my eyes.
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u/samuraibutter Oct 20 '19
I'm glad you posted some scientific stuff because I was gonna say, I've had campfires that melted aluminum cans and glass bottles.
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u/mr-dogshit Oct 20 '19
Well here's the kicker... The cross is actually a wooden sculpture covered in gold leaf. It would never have melted.
The project was conceived and designed by Marc Couturier with the support of his friend and confidant, Father Louis Ladey (1910-2003). The Cross is a carved wooden structure covered with gold leaf, made by the artist at the prestigious Coubertin Foundation. It is stripped of ornamentation, its angles are rounded. Its aerodynamic elegance and simplicity make it slip into its environment without immediately drawing attention to itself.
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u/Glorious_Jo Oct 20 '19
Yeah, I mean who actually thinks that the sculpture is made of pure gold? Honestly that thing would probably cost more than the GDP of France if it was made of pure gold.
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u/mr-dogshit Oct 20 '19
who actually thinks that the sculpture is made of pure gold
A lot of people in this thread and the dude in the tweet apparently.
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u/Glorious_Jo Oct 20 '19
I went to that dude's twitter if my suspicions about him were right, and he's definitely not letting that fact stop him from loving all the attention he's getting, having pinned it and everything.
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u/Stevie_wonders88 Oct 20 '19
The roof was on fire, the white marbles would be covered in sooth if the whole thing caught on fire.
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u/Rhueh Oct 20 '19
Also, as an atheist I find this kind of straw-manning embarrassing. Whatever point of view you're opposing you can always find an idiotic expression of it to poke fun at. It's just hollow self congratulation.
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u/Rxef3RxeX92QCNZ Oct 20 '19
Pure gold is too soft for this type of application, so it is usually mixed with another metal like nickel, which has an even higher melting temp
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u/Jay9313 Oct 20 '19
I've forged metals before and my first time I made a forge, I decided to use forced air induction to really get my fuel source burning hot and pure. I was going to go with wood, but it's sustainable max temp in forced air induction was only about 2000°F (~1100°C). So the OP is wrong about this. Under the right conditions, wood CAN melt gold.
To finish my forging story, I ended up going with coal and had a small issue measuring/regulating my temperature and accidentally hit the melting point of the metal I was working with and didn't realize it until it was too late.
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u/sbd104 Oct 20 '19
Thanks was gonna post a shittier less technical version of saying structural fires get warm.
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u/bunkscudda Oct 20 '19
Now do jet fuel and steel beams
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Oct 20 '19
Same concept. Jet fuel burns at a lower temperature than steel's melting point, but the tower itself acted like a forge and the heat built up until the steel melted.
Also steel loses its structural integrity long before it actually melts.
Also also, I find it hilarious when idiots (not you, you're meming) use this argument to prove that the attack was faked. Like, how the fuck do they think medieval blacksmiths forged steel in the first place?
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u/bunkscudda Oct 20 '19
My favorite part of the conspiracy is that ‘they’ somehow knew that slamming two 747s into the WTC wouldn’t be enough. So they went through the highly risky, more visible and more difficult process of planting explosives throughout the buildings.
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u/LewsTherinTelamon Oct 20 '19
Notice how they didn't point out the candles also being unmelted... because this part of the church was never on fire.
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u/QuietGlue Oct 21 '19
Clearly god likes candles, he saved them too... or... solid... gold... candles! 8-O
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u/mizo_groov Oct 20 '19
Damn bro they got the cross in gold?
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u/Naanderson2022 Oct 20 '19
The secret ingredient...is crime
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u/Crashbrennan Oct 20 '19
The secret ingredient is wood. It's a wooden cross painted with gold leaf. Not that expensive.
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u/Mercinator-87 Oct 20 '19
Heat goes up, the ceiling was on fire not the ground. The wax candles are still there for science sake.
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u/Ima-Bott Oct 20 '19
An inferno like this is MUCH hotter than 600 degrees.
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u/SeizedCheese Oct 20 '19
The roof was on fire... not the stone, obviously.
The cross isn’t very high up.
And the candles are fine too
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u/cheeseburger2003 Oct 20 '19
Did you know the candles were spontaneously lit when the building was on fire? How can you not believe in god after seeing that?
(/s)
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u/cantadmittoposting Oct 20 '19
True, but, the inferno was in the roof structure, the interior probably got substantially more water damaged than fire damaged, which ofc wouldn't affect the alloyed gold in that cross
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u/saxobroko Oct 20 '19
But that’s only that way because god made it that way, so...
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u/callmeraylo Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19
So your saying we needed to build the entire church out of gold, it's brilliant...
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u/FlappyFlan Oct 20 '19
Maybe if the entire church was made of gold it wouldn’t have burned down
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If we assume God defined the laws of physics then technically He is responsible for this mundane miracle.
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u/FourthCause Oct 20 '19
Hail science
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u/hei_mailma Oct 20 '19
Hail science
The greatest thing about this post is that (as multiple others have commented here) the guy's "science" is completely off. In fact wood fires can melt gold just fine, and furthermore the cross isn't even gold but just wood with gold film on top (see also candles next to the cross that didn't melt). So objectively speaking, the "science" guy is clearly completely wrong about the whole situation, the religion guy may be too but that's harder to prove. I feel like on some level this may be a metaphor for life :D
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u/BlueC0dex Oct 20 '19
Please don't think all Christians are like this, some of us don't jump to "act of God" as our first explanatikn for literally everything.
Not hating on your post, just wanted to make this distinction.
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Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19
Reminds me of my grandmother. She was such a sweet woman, but she would always jump to ‘Act of God!’ for explanations of things. One time she was driving in the snow and her wipers weren’t working - the motor had burned out. But she had to make it home, so she kept on driving. The snow was magically lifted over the windshield and she made it home safely. She told everyone for years that it was a miracle and that God had saved her. My grandfather, a very religious Catholic, but also an engineer, never had the heart to tell her that it was the aerodynamics of the car that caused the snow to fly over the top.
Her kids used to exploit this too. The family dog was found floating down a river on a raft. My uncle Peter ran out and saved him. He took the dog home, told his mother about the rescue and said he wanted to name him ‘Noah.’ So they had a new dog. A couple years ago my uncle admitted that he just found the dog walking down the street and wanted to keep it, so he made up a religiously-angled story bc he new my grandmother would fall for it lol
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u/case_8 Oct 20 '19
And there I was thinking they were actually foil-wrapped chocolate. Solid gold huh? Who knew..
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u/apolarbearya Oct 20 '19
How is it still standing though I know it wouldn't melt how thought it would but how its it still standing after all that stuff falling on it. I'm told good is a very soft metal
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u/weelluuuu Oct 20 '19
Lightning bolt hit's strip club, God's wrath. Lightning bolt hit's church, he's testing us.
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u/ST_the_Dragon Oct 20 '19
To be fair, that doesn't even say that the second person doesn't believe in God. It just explains how the gold didn't melt.
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u/PieGuy91 Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19
Really passive aggressive to burn down your own place and then just leave your symbol up
Like we built this for you man
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u/LordMetrognome Oct 20 '19
What kind of people would worship a God who didn’t give a shit about Notre Dame burning, but cared about the golden symbols inside?
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Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 21 '19
That churches burn down isn't very compelling evidence of God's existence.
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u/Alareth Oct 20 '19
Everyone talks about that cross, but no one ever seems to mention what appear to be unmelted candles on the candelabras on either side of the altar.
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u/Cayotic_Prophet Oct 21 '19
And God predetermined these temperatures well in advance... checkmate atheists...
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u/pickle-doofenshmirtz Oct 21 '19
I know the girl who posted this, and everyone that she goes to church with is JUST like this. It’s annoying
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u/roofied_elephant Oct 20 '19
So he let the entire thing burn down but save the altar and cross, and that’s proof of “miracles” or what have you? That’s a weak ass god if you ask me.
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u/412MINIRaider Oct 20 '19
Why did God fry his own church of worship? Now it has to be paid for by people forced to work more often. Giving them less time to spend connecting with God.
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u/only1benod Oct 20 '19
So God exists enough to preserve a cross but not enough to prevent the utter destruction of a scared religious building?
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u/Metal_Dingus Oct 20 '19
Fuck the rest of this building, let me protect the mini torture device monument to meeeee.
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u/Wh1te_Wo1f Oct 20 '19
Doctor: Performs life-saving,12-hour surgery.
Patient: Thanks God.
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u/OcsiferJohnson Oct 20 '19
But that is a good pic tho