Can You See the Fire? -- Extreme Science #2

In which the intrepid Jake Roper of Vsauce3 visits the former town of Centralia in Pennsylvania, which has been largely abandoned due to an unfortunate accident in 1962.

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Previous Extreme Science video: https://youtu.be/iJwZ3uBzQV0

Companion article on PopSci: http://www.popsci.com/extreme-science-centralia

There will be one more coming out so stay tuned! Special thanks to PopSci for giving me permission to put these on my channel.

***CREDITS***

Written, directed, hosted and edited by Jake Roper

Cinematography and VFX by Eric Langlay

Produced by Tim Willison

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi

Special thanks to Cliff Ransom, PopSci and Toyota.

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newtboysays...

How funny, I was talking about this yesterday when my wife showed me a picture of the 'gates of hell' in Uzbekistan (I think)....a drilling disaster that caught fire in the 70's and was expected to burn out in a few days...and it's also still burning today.

Paybacksays...

Please don't say it gives off Nitrogen in the same sentence where it gives off Arsenic and Sulfur. Makes it sound like Nitrogen is bad for you.

The air everyone reading this is breathing -who isn't on bottled oxygen- is over 75% Nitrogen. It is by far the most plentiful gas on the planet. It's why filling your tires with Nitrogen is more or less a gimmick.

spawnflaggersays...

content was interesting, but the host was distracting (trying to be like Vsauce guy too much?)

what's so extreme about this science? Maybe it would be extreme engineering if they tried to build a geothermal power plant in Centralia that ran off of the long-burning underground coal.

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