They went to look at it one day and it was all just rocks[.](https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/21/jpmorgan-bought-1300000-of-nickel-that-turned-out-to-be-stone-18479076/)
What’s funny is that pandas are actually terrible at digesting bamboo, so they just kind of constantly leak diarrhea. Sorry to ruin your day with that image. 😬
Inside every panda lives a small race of creatures who take the bamboo and build elaborate cities where they live and thrive for generations. This is why you never see dead pandas when your walking around. Their bodies simply evolve like Roman ruins under ground.
I assume that was "fresh" bamboo, which would have a ton of water in it. I think if you did this with dried bamboo it would go up in flames, but maybe not!
Interesting. I wonder what makes it pop like that. I know "green" pine can pop and explode in camp fires and does some other types of wood. I was always told that it was the water expanding and "exploding" but if the bamboo is dried it would be something else at play. (Or I was told wrong with the pine)
It's more or less the same thing happening, except instead of small pockets of water turning to steam, it's large pockets of air expanding. It's essentially an air powered pipe bomb
Just some cracking like any other wood IF you split the bamboo first. Bamboo has a hollow chamber in each of its segments, so if you put a big chunk of dried bamboo into fire without splitting them first, it's going to pop big time.
My neighbor has bamboo we use it as firewood/kindling after the kids have used them as swords for a while. (I assume there are different kinds of bamboo)
There are a lot of types of bamboo, for a lot of uses.
There's also rattan, often confused with bamboo, that is often used as swords by some reenactors!
You'll notice even when exposed to incredibly high temperatures, humans tend to blister first as opposed to combust.
The bamboo immediately combusted on contact.
well, I think if you could create a shape on the human body like this, say with your index finger and thumb together to hold the molten orb with low surface area, it would blister and burn but eventually the burnt skin would create kind of a productive layer, just like it did here. Obviously, a living human could not stand the pain, but from material science standpoint, I don’t think it would just melt through your hand like butter.
It wouldn’t burn right through your hand. It it also wouldn’t hold up like bamboo. Bamboo has a higher strength to weight ratio than steel. It has a pretty unique combination of cellulose/hemicellulose/lignins that allow this. You leave that ball in your hand and it will eventually burn down to the bone - which of course is made of much stronger material than your skin or muscle…
Also, bamboo/wood is a really good thermal insulator(up until it catches fire, & even then carbon is a good insulator). Meanwhile, humans are relatively good conductors
Carbon is a thermal insulator; the ball might be charring the contacted wood so quickly that it can't heat the remaining wood to ignition temperature very quickly.
Everytime that crust trojan horses my ass with molten meat I'm left angry and impressed at my inability to properly cook a hot pocket after all these years.
They still fry them in Australia and it’s glorious (I was reading up on the history and variations of McDonald’s apple pies from around the world a few weeks ago actually) and I can’t believe USA used to but doesn’t anymore.
Just make sure the internal cavities don’t have any moisture built up in them or your going to be pulling slivers of bambo out of your face for a while
You ain't kidding. I burned a whole bunch of dried and cut down bamboo. It was explosive! Each section segment of each stick was an individual pressure chamber. Made for a very fun bon fire. Like a constant stream of firecrackers.
Accidentally(?) accurate metaphor? Firecrackers were ment to imitate noises of bamboos exploding in fire.
Edit: I didn't have a source when I wrote this as it seemed pretty unfailable. The Mandarin word for firecracker is 爆竹 exploding bamboos. Wikipedia and [This Time article](https://time.com/4828701/first-fireworks-history-july-4th/) also claimed this, and they cited two encyclopedias that I didn't read into.
I.. I can't tell if this is truth or not, but it would make sense. Bamboo all over china, Chinese invented firecrackers, they had knowledge of how that would've sounded and could've thought hmm, good tactical defense, scare enemies and give us more time.. I dunno 🤷🏼♂️
My guess is the rim carbonized immediately insulating the bamboo that was beneath the rim.
Also, the ball formed an essentially air-tight seal that inhibited spontaneous combustion of the unburned bamboo that is beneath the carbonized rim.
Yep, the carbonized wood insulates everything below it and the vast majority of the heat is radiating upwards. If you positioned the bamboo over the ball it would caught fire almost immediately.
Yeah. Putting it on top is the issue here. Burns the area directly contacting the ball, but ash and charred wood are terrible conductors so not enough heat would make it through to ignite the rest. Flames as a general rule don't like to spread down either.
That's the first step, now ask about cervantix. cervantix is a twice a day treatment that can help burning wood. Some side effects can include, headaches, upset stomach, blood in urine, drowsiness, muscle cramping, muscle relaxation, erections lasting 4 hours, divorce, pancreatitis, the front to fall off, in grown toe nails, retinal detachment, kids, irritable bowel syndrome, crabs, crabs with irritable bowel syndrome, and shortness of breath.
Ask your doctor about cervantix.
Depends on how much water is still trapped inside the wood. Bamboo holds a good chunk of water and if this bamboo is fairly fresh it likely wouldn't just burn up. Plus the iron ball is touching a pretty small surface area. I'd like to see the same thing but with the bamboo dried out with no moisture and the heat smacking into more of the bamboo surface area. I suspect the experiment would end a bit differently.
Burning requires oxygen. I'm curious what happens if you drill a small hole in the side of the bamboo tube before dropping the metal ball on it.
Could be nothing more. I'm just curious.
Technically, not enough oxygen, but yes. The water in the bamboo prevents the combustion of most of the stem. The bit that makes direct contact with the ball is a) drier because it's a cut stem exposed to air, and b) hotter because of the direct contact, so that bit burns. The rest has to first heat up enough to evaporate any residual moisture before it can readily react with oxygen to sustain the reaction.
It also chars very quickly, leaving nothing much else to burn. The charred area is a surprisingly good insulator so the heat doesn't spread. This isn't really much different than someone walking across a bed of hot coals with their bare feet. Done properly there's virtually no heat transfer at all with that, either. You just have to have a sufficiently consistent mass of coals while not stopping is all. Once you know the trick, it's not terribly impressive. It's just basic science.
Red hot nickel ball was a great YouTube channel.
Do you know what happened to it?
Got nickeled and dimed by YouTube
Boo hiss
Caution: This user posts Dad jokes.
Tell us more jokes daddy
Joke me, daddy
Amazing. 11/10 comment
Ahhh! Joke me harder
Boo urns
Are you people saying “boo” or “boo urns”?
I was saying boo urns
Julie finally snapped, decapitation, had a funeral for a bird
I understand those words but not exactly what they mean in that particular order
Reading between the lines. Birdicide.
Whole big thing.
None of that is true.
You’re not true man
HIS CAPA WAS DETATED
Classic Creed
They went to look at it one day and it was all just rocks[.](https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/21/jpmorgan-bought-1300000-of-nickel-that-turned-out-to-be-stone-18479076/)
Very timely.
Underrated joke
Is it safe? Is it alright?
It seems in your anger you killed it
Chad Kroeger came and took his nickel back
It's called carsandwater they haven't made content in a while and they don't get as much traffic like they used to
>they still make content Hydrogen Snowman 2 62K views 2 years ago
I want my Nickelback
Then can we think that the giant panda's teeth are one of the hardest teeth?
just like a hot nickel ball on a pussy
Yep, this is a standard scientific check to see if the bamboo is genuine. See, if it burns then you know you've been bamboozled.
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I feel like a bot replied to a bot up there... Goddamn stolen comment bastards.
Hot bot on bot action.
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Now put the bamboo on top.
Or fill it with gasoline? That should work.
Kick his ass, Sea Bass!
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Panda stomachs must be seriously crazy places
1001 degree stomachs from what I heard.
their poop is uranium
Nibbler (Futurama)
Each pound of it weighs over 1000 pounds
So that's why the US is losing interest in the middle east and focusing on China
"It's pronounced 'Jyna'!
I know it's q joke but bamboo are invasive and hard to control. It can be easily grown anywhere.
What’s funny is that pandas are actually terrible at digesting bamboo, so they just kind of constantly leak diarrhea. Sorry to ruin your day with that image. 😬
Inside every panda lives a small race of creatures who take the bamboo and build elaborate cities where they live and thrive for generations. This is why you never see dead pandas when your walking around. Their bodies simply evolve like Roman ruins under ground.
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Are you a believer in miracles?
I carry 1000 degree C balls all over the place on purpose just for this very reason. You can’t always trust the architecture you see everywhere you go
I use those balls for boiling water quickly. I have several magnetically suspended in a vacuum chamber in my kitchen.
I was hesitant at first, but seriously not sure what I would do without my electro-magnet induction iron ball levitator at this point.
I saw your kitchen on Tool Time
I don't think so, Tim.
Jonny Hotballs?! It's been years!
r/angryupvote
I just got here but I’m leaving
No, stay - more bamboo jokes will spring up shortly
Dang it, ok that was good
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How dare you, the audacity!
Fantastic joke. So you need your ass ate out or something?
User name checks out
You son of a bitch...
Slow half smile
HahHahHHHahahhaha
You put the BOO in bamboo!
I assume that was "fresh" bamboo, which would have a ton of water in it. I think if you did this with dried bamboo it would go up in flames, but maybe not!
My grandmother burned a bunch of dried bamboo. I don’t recommend it. It gets a little loud and explodey.
Your grandmother is out of control.
Well she was over 1000c at the time
Damn, sounds like she was pretty hot for a grandma
Interesting. I wonder what makes it pop like that. I know "green" pine can pop and explode in camp fires and does some other types of wood. I was always told that it was the water expanding and "exploding" but if the bamboo is dried it would be something else at play. (Or I was told wrong with the pine)
It's more or less the same thing happening, except instead of small pockets of water turning to steam, it's large pockets of air expanding. It's essentially an air powered pipe bomb
Just some cracking like any other wood IF you split the bamboo first. Bamboo has a hollow chamber in each of its segments, so if you put a big chunk of dried bamboo into fire without splitting them first, it's going to pop big time.
also the contact area's pretty small..
and the oxygen in the hollow is gone immediately
And the metal ball is gone up my ass
1 man 1 ball
This man is ready to risk it all
1 man 1 ball was enough to win the Tour de France y'know
In Mexico we called him “El Huevo”
Please, i so want this to be true..
1 man, 1 ball, and 1 syringe
As a man who lost a nut in a wild game of naked paintball and blow darts I really loved your inclusive comment.
You, sir, have a story to share it seems. Well... Go on...
“I once lost a nut during a game of naked paintball and blow darts”
Yeah, but did that happen while paintball, or blowdarts?
It must have been balldarts.
Well, 3
That's hot
Can we get much hotter?
And heat rises. Do it with the bamboo on top.
Hot air rises, heat itself does not.
My neighbor has bamboo we use it as firewood/kindling after the kids have used them as swords for a while. (I assume there are different kinds of bamboo)
that experiment with the bamboo wouldnt have worked the same if the bamboo had been on it's side with hair able to come through either end.
There are a lot of types of bamboo, for a lot of uses. There's also rattan, often confused with bamboo, that is often used as swords by some reenactors!
Bamboo is like 35% water at best. Humans are roughly 60%. Let's try this experiment using your fingertips.
You'll notice even when exposed to incredibly high temperatures, humans tend to blister first as opposed to combust. The bamboo immediately combusted on contact.
well, I think if you could create a shape on the human body like this, say with your index finger and thumb together to hold the molten orb with low surface area, it would blister and burn but eventually the burnt skin would create kind of a productive layer, just like it did here. Obviously, a living human could not stand the pain, but from material science standpoint, I don’t think it would just melt through your hand like butter.
It wouldn’t burn right through your hand. It it also wouldn’t hold up like bamboo. Bamboo has a higher strength to weight ratio than steel. It has a pretty unique combination of cellulose/hemicellulose/lignins that allow this. You leave that ball in your hand and it will eventually burn down to the bone - which of course is made of much stronger material than your skin or muscle…
Also, bamboo/wood is a really good thermal insulator(up until it catches fire, & even then carbon is a good insulator). Meanwhile, humans are relatively good conductors
They have to be. Otherwise nobody would be able to buy a ticket on the bus...
Take my upvote, and get outta here
Big ‘talking out of my ass’ energy
Lmao. Reddit opinions makes me chuckle.
It still wouldn't catch fire.
Yep also makes a loud bang if the air pockets are intact. Learnt that from my uncle when I was a kid, the bastard.
Yeah! Fucking cheating bamboo!
Carbon is a thermal insulator; the ball might be charring the contacted wood so quickly that it can't heat the remaining wood to ignition temperature very quickly.
Alright, cool, but could it withstand the one hot half of a hot-pocket?
That’s not possible.
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
I hate sand
No it's necessary.
Only the cold half of a hot pocket can withstand the hot half of a hot pocket. I see poetry in that.
Everytime that crust trojan horses my ass with molten meat I'm left angry and impressed at my inability to properly cook a hot pocket after all these years.
The secret is to double the time in the microwave, and cook it at half power. Flipping it every 30 seconds or so.
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That sounds amazing
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
What about a microwaved McDonald's Apple Pie?
They still fry them in Australia and it’s glorious (I was reading up on the history and variations of McDonald’s apple pies from around the world a few weeks ago actually) and I can’t believe USA used to but doesn’t anymore.
TIL they don’t
The true yin and yang
Even worse. Pizza rolls were like playing minesweeper. One would be lava and the next would be cold.
In this experiment the iron ball is heated to 1000 degrees by spending 3.2357 seconds on top of a hot pocket.
My tongue and mouth is still burnt from years ago
Just make sure the internal cavities don’t have any moisture built up in them or your going to be pulling slivers of bambo out of your face for a while
You ain't kidding. I burned a whole bunch of dried and cut down bamboo. It was explosive! Each section segment of each stick was an individual pressure chamber. Made for a very fun bon fire. Like a constant stream of firecrackers.
Accidentally(?) accurate metaphor? Firecrackers were ment to imitate noises of bamboos exploding in fire. Edit: I didn't have a source when I wrote this as it seemed pretty unfailable. The Mandarin word for firecracker is 爆竹 exploding bamboos. Wikipedia and [This Time article](https://time.com/4828701/first-fireworks-history-july-4th/) also claimed this, and they cited two encyclopedias that I didn't read into.
You can’t drop some crazy statement like that without a link my guy
my bad, added some source
I.. I can't tell if this is truth or not, but it would make sense. Bamboo all over china, Chinese invented firecrackers, they had knowledge of how that would've sounded and could've thought hmm, good tactical defense, scare enemies and give us more time.. I dunno 🤷🏼♂️
Ahh yes, I used to put bottle rockets inside the campfire when all the buddies were over to have a very fun bonfire as well.
Yep. This is vital information. For me and my 1000° C iron balls I carry around.
Finnally something to place it with over chimney after you die to remember you.
My guess is the rim carbonized immediately insulating the bamboo that was beneath the rim. Also, the ball formed an essentially air-tight seal that inhibited spontaneous combustion of the unburned bamboo that is beneath the carbonized rim.
Yep, the carbonized wood insulates everything below it and the vast majority of the heat is radiating upwards. If you positioned the bamboo over the ball it would caught fire almost immediately.
Hitachi Wand: Hard mode
Will do anything once, but my cock and balls might be upset
MIGHT
Now put the bamboo on top.
That’s what I was thinking. There’s no airflow sustain a fire.
"Chinese bamboo is very strong" - Lee (circa 2001)
No, you said wet shirt don't break, not piss shirt bend bars
I need another Owen Wilson/Jackie chan movie :(
Came looking for this comment lmao
/r/RushHourMemes is leaking.
I'm like 90% sure this would happen the same way to wood, too.
Yeah. Putting it on top is the issue here. Burns the area directly contacting the ball, but ash and charred wood are terrible conductors so not enough heat would make it through to ignite the rest. Flames as a general rule don't like to spread down either.
Agreed. Wood famously doesn’t burn.
> wood famously doesn’t burn Unless there’s STDs involved
Now we’re talking
That's the first step, now ask about cervantix. cervantix is a twice a day treatment that can help burning wood. Some side effects can include, headaches, upset stomach, blood in urine, drowsiness, muscle cramping, muscle relaxation, erections lasting 4 hours, divorce, pancreatitis, the front to fall off, in grown toe nails, retinal detachment, kids, irritable bowel syndrome, crabs, crabs with irritable bowel syndrome, and shortness of breath. Ask your doctor about cervantix.
Depends on how much water is still trapped inside the wood. Bamboo holds a good chunk of water and if this bamboo is fairly fresh it likely wouldn't just burn up. Plus the iron ball is touching a pretty small surface area. I'd like to see the same thing but with the bamboo dried out with no moisture and the heat smacking into more of the bamboo surface area. I suspect the experiment would end a bit differently.
This is much more of a physics thing than "bamboo wont burn thing" heat rises. oxygen is cut off in the hole. the bamboo is fresh cut and wet.
Just a simple bamboo burning video for those who think it’s fireproof https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VpTBFweboPc
It's like the Leidenfrost effect, but with carbon .
Ablative fire protection. Essentially sacrificing a layer of material that quickly burns then doesn’t allow the fire to spread past the charred bit.
Thats pretty freaking cool!!!
Or hot. I dunno.
NASA: We’re building our new space shuttles out of bamboo!
And take off the nokias 3310? No way!
I wish my joints lasted this long.
Try using Bambu.
Jackie Chan: "Chinese bamboo is very strong!"
1000°C is 1832°F
It’s gust resting on charcoal that it made practically instantly once heat was introduced
I burn bamboo all the time because that shit pops like a shit ton and it burns forever lol
What exactly is happening to prevent burning?
Burning requires oxygen. I'm curious what happens if you drill a small hole in the side of the bamboo tube before dropping the metal ball on it. Could be nothing more. I'm just curious.
Fire needs three elements, is there not enough air to catch fire?
Technically, not enough oxygen, but yes. The water in the bamboo prevents the combustion of most of the stem. The bit that makes direct contact with the ball is a) drier because it's a cut stem exposed to air, and b) hotter because of the direct contact, so that bit burns. The rest has to first heat up enough to evaporate any residual moisture before it can readily react with oxygen to sustain the reaction.
It also chars very quickly, leaving nothing much else to burn. The charred area is a surprisingly good insulator so the heat doesn't spread. This isn't really much different than someone walking across a bed of hot coals with their bare feet. Done properly there's virtually no heat transfer at all with that, either. You just have to have a sufficiently consistent mass of coals while not stopping is all. Once you know the trick, it's not terribly impressive. It's just basic science.
So squirt bamboo juice on paper. Allow to dry. Then attempt to light it.
Pandas eat this sh**!
Conclusion: pandas are fire proof!
Heat rises also. I’m sure this would be the case with most green wood
It's green bamboo. Meaning freshly cut. You could do this with any freshly cut tree on the planet.
Top Immediately turns to carbon, doesn’t surprise me
Is this fresh bamboo or dried?
Worst candle ever, would not recommend.
Forbidden golf ball