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OhGizmo!: World’s Largest Man-Made Tornado Actually Built For Safety

  • Kouroth · 2 years ago
    COOL!
  • Alex · 2 years ago
    Uh, I realize I'm no Poindexter, but wouldn't a secondary effect of rapidly moving all that air accelerate the fire?
  • mario medina · 11 months ago
    Hi Alex, I Know you made this tornado comment 1 year ago, but the tornado is made out of carbon dioxide, that`s why ot wouldn`t accelerate the fire.
    regards
  • Jon · 8 months ago
    Mario... if there is a fire, they wont be pumping carbon dioxide into building. They will turn it on in hopes to suck smoke out and in doing so will almost certainly accelerate the fire. Alex is correct.
  • arrie · 2 years ago
    nice and why i dont see the benz logo there :P
  • sean · 2 years ago
    @alex. not if youre removing oxygen
  • Jon · 8 months ago
    whenever you have a fire in an enclosed area, that area will have a lower concentration of oxygen. pumping the air out will replace it with oxygen rich air from the outside, feeding the fire.
  • chris · 2 years ago
    you're not actually trying to stop the fire, that's what firefightters are for. they said that it's just for removing large quantities of smoke in the case of a fire
  • MisterNetHead · 2 years ago
    You can just imagine some public safety inspector looking at the building plans and saying, "Frankly, you'd need a huge tornado to get rid of the smoke in case of a fire." To which the museum designer said, "OK."
  • Link · 2 years ago
    also @ alex: that's almost like saying that blowing on a birthday candle would make it burn faster. plus like cris says once the fire is big enough that your moving 28 tons of air in a cylinder to prevent smoke damage, you're likely not gonna save anything that's already on fire.

    also I would love to jump into the middle of that.
  • Jon · 8 months ago
    Link, a candle has access to all the oxygen it needs whereas an enclosed fire doesn't. Anyone who's ever built a fire knows that introducing air flow accelerates the process. Alex is right.
  • Angle · 2 years ago
    Hahahah, I can just imagine MisterNetHead.

    Interesting though, very interesting. When can we have a 3 meter version for homes? It'll make every house-fire something for the whole family to enjoy!
  • jefffff · 11 months ago
    Your comment is very funny. :)
  • anon · 2 years ago
    Call me crazy, but this seems needlessly loud. I wouldn't really want to be there despite being a cool attraction. No museum I've ever been to is that loud. Scratch that, the city museum in St. Louis is that loud, but it's screaming and running kids there.
  • Anonymous · 2 years ago
    Are there not more efficient ways of removing smoke?
  • Neal · 2 years ago
    While removing smoke, which would allow people to escape and firefighters to work, the tornado should also remove the rising heat. If you've ever watched videos of a fire in progress, it's the superheated air and vapors that gather near the ceiling that allow a fire to flash over and spread quickly. I assume that this has been considered and tested of course. If not then it's always possible that the thick vapors and extreme heat will disrupt the tornado effect, though it could serve to magnify it too.
  • linuxcluster · 2 years ago
    @anon
    the tornado is not turned on unless there is an emergency. I have been to the museum many times and they have never shown this aspect of the building design - hence the museum itself is rather quite.
  • Prank Videos · 2 years ago
    holy cow! I gotta see this
  • fgdjlfgdjlgd · 2 years ago
    yea thats cool
  • nerd · 2 years ago
    clearly some hax are involved.
  • shinori · 2 years ago
    it is interesting to see (in the video at the end) the way a curve devoloped in the tornado, as if the rotation made the tonado form a slow wave of three nodes (1 on each side, 1 in middle).

    they should add doors to the room (and open vents) and turn this into an attraction. it would definitely pay for itself and for the usage. (i'd go to see it, if i visited germany....).
  • subcorpus · 2 years ago
    these germans are good ...eh ?
  • ThePixelNinja · 2 years ago
    I don't know if it's to prevent smoke damage or to save the people in the building,
    the fire isn't going to be what gets you, it's going to be the smoke, the fire is what's going to devour your unconscious body. Our blood more readily grabs carbon monoxide, than it does Oxygen. So the carbon monoxide in the smoke will render you unable to run because it's suffocating you. either way, it's still pretty badass.
  • ashash · 2 years ago
    umm i thinks it is ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • MoneyMoose · 2 years ago
    I need me one of those at my house.
  • jacob · 1 year ago
    That thing is huge! Thanks for posting it online.Wow thats amazing
  • randon · 1 year ago
    Dang who made that! I mean shouldn't that like tear down the building or something?Also why would you need a 34.43 meter big tornado to clear smoke out of a building?
  • airbuddy · 1 year ago
    awe that things is kwl!!!!!!!..............
  • chad · 12 months ago
    if someone jumped into the middle of that funnel, wouldn't they get knocked off there feet and hit their head or something? I mean it's obvious they would not put there customers in any real danger but thats just my guess.
  • joe · 11 months ago
    what was the wind speed