if the commentator hadn't mentioned that one can not see alcohol flames, you would never have guessed it...

Wow, Scary Stuff!
*Fear

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The main reason these kinds of fuels were phased out of sports.

Stop, drop, and roll!

Help me Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! Help me Tom Cruise!

tom cruise use your witchcraft to put the fire out on me!!

I wonder how often in the alcohol fueled days one of the pit crew would yell, "Fire fire, I'm on fire." Wave his arms around frantically and when they pulled out the fire-extinguisher say, "Gotcha! Ha ha!"

Invisible fire...just like my chlamydia

Are we sure this isn't a very elaborate Monty Python sketch?

*comedy

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>> ^bamdrew:

Are we sure this isn't a very elaborate Monty Python sketch?


While I am sure this is a joke, you can actually do this experiment at home with alcohol. Get yourself some everclear or some other very highly pure ethanol and set it ablaze. And did you notice he used the word inflammable. That is the correct word, we only recently made the word flammable up because it confused to many people.

I also noticed 'inflammable', and remember how funny language is.

And I've also drank previously aflame Everclear... I recall a faint blue flicker, if you squinted.

I upvoted your comment...while wearing rubber gloves.

>> ^rottenseed:

Invisible fire...just like my chlamydia

Allow me to tag the obvious *fire video.

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Now you got me wondering if the movie Talladega nights was following this inside joke.

At the time of this videos, Indycars ran on methanol rather than ethanol. Ethanol has a very faint blue flame, but methanol is almost perfectly clear, though you can see the flames as sort of a shimmering disturbance in the air. These days Indycars run on ethanol, but it's more of a marketing thing than for any practical reason... the racing industry is hard up to show how "green" they are.



>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^bamdrew:
Are we sure this isn't a very elaborate Monty Python sketch?

While I am sure this is a joke, you can actually do this experiment at home with alcohol. Get yourself some everclear or some other very highly pure ethanol and set it ablaze. And did you notice he used the word inflammable. That is the correct word, we only recently made the word flammable up because it confused to many people.

*vintage

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>> ^sillma:

The main reason these kinds of fuels were phased out of sports.


They still used alcohol fuel, which is a mixture of ethanol with 2% gasoline to make it burn visibly.

Wait... so let me see if I get it... the fire is invisible and cannot be seen? Ahhhh, I think I understand now.

Good...the last thing I would want is for you to get burned.>> ^quantumushroom:

I upvoted your comment...while wearing rubber gloves.
>> ^rottenseed:
Invisible fire...just like my chlamydia

>> ^jimnms:

>> ^sillma:
The main reason these kinds of fuels were phased out of sports.

They still used alcohol fuel, which is a mixture of ethanol with 2% gasoline to make it burn visibly.


Yes, I didn't want to imply alcohol was removed, just the invisible ones

There will be no invisible flame war thanks to much extinguishant.

>> ^Xax:

Wait... so let me see if I get it... the fire is invisible and cannot be seen? Ahhhh, I think I understand now.


No, you've completed misunderstood. Think of a fire, right? But imagine one in which the flames are not only completely invisible, but also cannot be seen. Its still a fire, it burns hot, you can feel it's heat, right? But you can't see where it is and no-one around you can see it either. The human eye is simply incapable of detecting it. So if someone was on fire they would feel it burning, but they couldn't see it, you couldn't see it and no-one else could see it. So now imagine it's you on fire and you've got to explain all that to someone else in order to get them to understand that although they can't see the flames, because they're invisible to the naked eye, that they still need to put out the flames to stop them burning you.

If only there were some kind of easily recognisable signal you could give in such a situation.

> If only there were some kind of easily recognisable signal you could give in such a situation.

I'MMMM ON FIRE !!!!!
ME PANTS IS ON FIRE !!!!