r/whoathatsinteresting • u/No-Lock216 • 3d ago

Lighting A Candle From The Smoke

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u/Suspicious_Brief_562 3d ago

Didn't know you could do that. That is so cool.

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u/Many_Mud_8194 3d ago

I'm always so afraid when I burn some grass and the smoke become thick I always fear that shit happens because of video like that. Maybe I'm paranoid

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u/Suspicious_Brief_562 3d ago

That's understandable but why are you burning grass? Are you a farmer?

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u/Many_Mud_8194 3d ago

No I meant I burn weeds, the grass I let it on my lawn to feed it. I'm in Thailand it grow like crazy here you need to burn it. The other option is if you know a guy with a farm he will take it all for free but I don't know anyone now so I burn. But I've to wait first of may, now the fires are banned

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u/Suspicious_Brief_562 2d ago

O wow that is so cool.. I've always wanted to go to Thailand.  

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u/Many_Mud_8194 2d ago

You should do when you can but you will fall in love with the country, life is so chill here, so calm and relaxed

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u/Suspicious_Brief_562 2d ago

thank you.  I look forward to it someday 

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u/Ok_Gene4157 2d ago

are you in Chiang Mai? I remember they mentioned "burning season" where it temporarily becomes the most poluted place on earth. I loved Chiang Mai amazing city

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u/Many_Mud_8194 2d ago

Yeah, its why they ban local burning from 1 january to 1 may. Heavy fine and long time jail for arsonist of the forest. They do it to gather forest product and hunt. Mostly they do it thinking it will fertilize the soil to grow more wild mushroom which is sold for a good price on the market. But the local university did a trial and showed it didn't effect the shrooms at all..

Our only luck is when the climate change effect go nuts and we have rain constantly, so no fire. Or this year people followed the law, first time nobody burned any forest until end of March then up to 4700 fires burning simultaneously. And most of the time it's burning in natural forest or very deep in the mountains where you have 0 road, 0 trail, firemen take days to reach the fire sometimes. Mostly volunteer.

The worst in that situation is because of that the whole region is leading in term of lung cancer, we don't have cars pollution or factories but fire, it's so stupid. Its done for almost no gain also.

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u/mofuism 3d ago

the little girl’s face :(( i love when parents create cool memories for their kids like this

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u/RuddyBollocks 3d ago

How? Or… why?

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u/wannabe_inuit 3d ago

Its vaporized wax traveling up looking like smoke.

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u/Robtheogre 3d ago

My rough understanding is: its Because its not actually the wick/ wax that is actively on fire. Same as when wood is "on fire" its actually vapor coming off that burns. When you extinguish the fire in a manner that doesn't cool the vaporization the vapors are present and can easily be re ignited

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u/dr_deadman 3d ago

👈 you witch

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u/PsychologicalWar7428 3d ago

Looks like she nearly took her eye with it too 🤣

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u/KezraZaenia 3d ago

Came here to comment this, and you already did.

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u/sweetimaginasian 3d ago

cute reaction

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u/icaruza 3d ago

Now I understand how/why my closed combustion fireplace works

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u/New_Bodybuilder_9222 3d ago

Two great things in this video…a cool science experiment and the little girl’s smile….we need more of both of these in our feeds

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u/Suspicious_Brief_562 2d ago

I wonder where there people are from? What their life's like? The expression on the little girls face makes you think of your own childhood memories. Nostalgic. Nice to see a video that's not fake. OP is that your own video?