[News] Oh great we've now managed to set the sea on fire

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Errm - you can't set the sea on fire - there is no fuel there (unless you have a particularly heavily concentrated plastic concentration floating on the surface, I suppose).

You can ignite a gas cloud that is sitting on / rising above the surface though. I have no idea where the ignition source for the gas / air mixture came from, though.

(Here endeth my pedantry for the day, I hope - I try to limit myself to a maximum of one occurrence per day, unless seriously provoked. )

[MENTION=34704]PeterOut[/MENTION] OUT!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I thought fires needed oxygen? I guess water being H2O means it can get some by feeding off the steam created somehow?

No. That would mean it would be a perpetual motion device, where the oxygen for the fire comes from the creation of oxygen by the fire.

Other gases are available.

 

[zefarelly]

I appreciate that it's not a good thing ecologically speaking..... but wow it's still pretty cool isn't it?


*potentially misreading the room badly*

I agree, DOlphins videos are one thing, but IF I saw FIRE when I went for a swim I'd be very impressed. Especially if it warmed the water up a bit

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

We are given sign after sign, warning after warning and we still keep insisting on ****ing up our planet.

That, unfortunately, is the human race for you, we have to destroy everything good that we are given.

 

[Boys 9d]

Many years ago on the Goon Show, Neddy Seagoon having bought the English Channel was persuaded to take out insurance against it catching fire. At the time I just thought it was the writer's idea of a farcical event. But now?

 

[el punal]

Okay I’ll do it. Altogether now :

Smoke on the water,

And fire in the sky!

 

[Mackenzie]

That's something you don't see everyday.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Can they recreate this when the Sovereign Centre in Eastbourne is teaming with chavs and their ill-behaved offspring?

 

[Baker lite]

Is there nothing we can't do?

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It will almost certainly be the fault of the UK, prepare for soap dodgers,the lame,the lazy and the long term useless to assemble in London and break some windows.


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[rogersix]

It will almost certainly be the fault of the UK, prepare for soap dodgers,the lame,the lazy and the long term useless to assemble in London and break some windows.


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as ever, tedious

 

[PeterOut]

I agree, DOlphins videos are one thing, but IF I saw FIRE when I went for a swim I'd be very impressed. Especially if it warmed the water up a bit

Ah - but then you would need one of these, in case it got out of hand...

 

[AZ Gull]

And now the Caspian Sea is on fire:-

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[drew]

Many years ago on the Goon Show, Neddy Seagoon having bought the English Channel was persuaded to take out insurance against it catching fire. At the time I just thought it was the writer's idea of a farcical event. But now?

Let's hope Little Jim doesn't fall in the water!

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

How to put out a fire by Red Adair - He's dead now, but excellent use of chemistry and physics

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[Wellesley]

That, unfortunately, is the human race for you, we have to destroy everything good that we are given.

We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the World's been turning.