Tornado World Record at Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart

[noelsoong777]

Germany producing the worlds most awesome shit since ever.

[laceybear15]

its not even windy

[STICKGUYMB]

I would love to put my little lego town in the middle of that!

[robgol2144]

Pra que serve isso mesmo ?

[catman63879]

this is cool as hell!!

[goodgoodgoodful]

eat your heart out, Blendtec B)

[adityarocks]

For the people who were wondering about the efficacy of the system for fire control- the leading cause of deaths in a fire is smoke inhalation and not burns.. This system removes all smoke thus making escape easier. It's not meant to put out fires. I assume they still use a traditional sprinkler system to douse the fire.

[hightiger123]

haha they misspelled october haha

[TheAeroTurtle]

@hightiger123 It's in Germany, you moron. That's how they spell October.

Ever hear of Oktober Fest? It happens in GERMANY.

[gundrop44]

wow thats so wired

[TechnomancerMorhion]

Feed in atomized fuel and ignite.

[2sexyinmyshirt]

i thought tornadoes start from the sky those dumasses

[yaywad]

i don't think its considered a "tornado" if it starts from the ground!

LOL

[ontehnet]

thts so cool!

[zakhenry]

Interesting to see what it would be like in a real fire....sounds like it could create the worlds highest blast furnace.

[banditthetheif]

That is so awesome!!

[ladicius]

From the 2007 press release: It was necessary to take a new approach, and so a globally unique smoke elimination system was developed especially for the Mercedes-Benz Museum. In the event of fire, 144 outlets located along the core walls inject air into the interior courtyard of the Mercedes-Benz Museum. This generates an artificial tornado, and the smoke collected is then discharged into the outside air via a smoke elimination ventilator located in the upper part of the building

[lennart777]

@ladicius But doens't that suck lots of air to the fire?

Then museum will become a oven in the event of a fire :(

[ladicius]

@lennart777 idk, i just googled it and copy/pasted.

[ladicius]

thats cool, but why did they decide to create that?

[McSeeArg]

Para JP

[MyMusic26051987]

NOt the strongest but the tallest. Search for deepest pool in the world :P

[dubnub22]

there is a way better picture of this in ripleys believe it or not book.

[chocolate0bob]

wtf :| deadly

[RootZoot09]

Upside down tornado

[ryushi12]

It is a tornado. There isn't dust on the ground for it to pick up like regular tornadoes for it to look like a regular one.  Duh.

[Tfirmin001]

WTF that wasn't even a tornado

[DJRobinfox]

to :Eckart in Stuttgart Mercedes Brochure Art Director).. Hoon en un linen! USA

[Hellafireleli]

thats not the strongest, but the tallest yep it is

[TogieTung]

I would recommend my interior design friend to incoporate the artificial tornado in a smoke filled bar he was commisioned to re-design, that would make things interesting. By the way, the bar is ironically called TWISTER..LOL

[panatoriousDJ]

i want to go to germany to the museum

[poisendcupcake]

@panatoriousDJ i was born in germany lolz

[rambox60]

wow :D

[tmlgproductions]

it looks like something from poltergeist

[Hellafireleli]

really kool

mummy i want that!

[goldencarMH]

aren't tornado's powered by water also? kinda like hurricanes, after the water runs out the storm does as well? just curious

[clearaccord15]

Its the warmth of the water that you are thinking of, not the water itself.

[MSLalleloken]

yeah, but what about water spouts. Look it up.

[Animalpalace]

My house got hit by a real one a week ago. :(

[thefrubbler]

ouch! my regrets...

[philotze]

and youre online a week after? lol

[MetalHeadWarlock376]

then how are you on the comp? that must not have been blown away.

[Animalpalace]

I hope you all know that the real world record for a tornado that is natural was in the capital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City (and the metro) 36 people were killed, it caused 1.2 billion dollars in damage.

[thefrubbler]

Just to tell you, why this tornado actually was created ... The purpose was not to get a world record, but to be able to get the smoke of an uncontrolled fire out of the building, so it has been developed for security reasons. The tornado actually creates a low pressure area which exhausts the smoke from the adjacent rooms of the museum and transports them through a flue outside of the building.

[Animalpalace]

Yeah, I know. It just says that its the world record ;)

[Animalpalace]

Oh, and I didn't read the description, lol

[thefrubbler]

So this tornado is probably the only one which saves people, by keeping the emergency exits smokefree. As you see, we can even learn from the most destructional powers of nature to try to make practical use of them. I am actually very sold on on such piece of engineering.

[Animalpalace]

Yes, I know. I was just talking about the record for highest wind speeds. I don't see a record broken here. Yeah, they are studying the tornado.

[stfunooobzmopfgz]

It says that this is the world record for an artificial tornado.

[Animalpalace]

Oh, and actually 41 people died.

[cucumelo5]

buenisimo