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

Jon — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:37:56 -0000

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.

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

Jon — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:32:48 -0000

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.

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

Jon — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:30:13 -0000

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.

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mario medina — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:41:39 -0000

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

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

joe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:25:23 -0000

what was the wind speed

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jefffff — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:54:22 -0000

Your comment is very funny. :)

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

chad — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:27:18 -0000

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.

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airbuddy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:16:50 -0000

awe that things is kwl!!!!!!!..............

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randon — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:38:47 -0000

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?

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

jacob — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:33:37 -0000

That thing is huge! Thanks for posting it online.Wow thats amazing

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MoneyMoose — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:23:24 -0000

I need me one of those at my house.

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ashash — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:47:12 -0000

umm i thinks it is ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

ThePixelNinja — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:52:35 -0000

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.

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subcorpus — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:19:54 -0000

these germans are good ...eh ?

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shinori — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:33:57 -0000

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....).

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nerd — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:46:36 -0000

clearly some hax are involved.

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fgdjlfgdjlgd — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:10:46 -0000

yea thats cool

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Prank Videos — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:59:39 -0000

holy cow! I gotta see this

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linuxcluster — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:41:02 -0000

@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.

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Neal — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:09:46 -0000

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.

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Anonymous — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:22:02 -0000

Are there not more efficient ways of removing smoke?

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anon — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:39:35 -0000

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.

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Angle — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:36:23 -0000

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!

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

Link — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:56:40 -0000

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.

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MisterNetHead — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:46:53 -0000

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."