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101 Ways to MAKE FIRE - #12 The Wind and the Wine Glass

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Uploaded by on Nov 29, 2010

How to blow your tinder bundle into flame, without even opening your mouth (except to drone on endlessly about the chemical reaction of combustion). Often, the most difficult part of getting a fire going is not getting the ember. As you can see in this video, it only takes a few seconds to ignite a piece of tinder fungus, even with a contrived lens. Although the rounded part at the base of the wine glass is not a complete sphere, it doesn't really matter because it is a section of a sphere, with parallel sides. Solar power is usually your most reliable and simplest source of energy for an ignition source, it's intuitive (mostly) and doesn't require too much practice. As I tried to show here, lenses can be found in the strangest places.
Mythbusters discovery weird science physics chemistry tutorial brusspup I'll flesh this description out a bit later.
SUBTITLE TRANSLATIONS ON THE WAY. (of course it doesn't really help me typing this in English in the video description now, does it?)
The whole drunken act here was a spur of the moment thing, just to explain why I had a wine glass in my hand. Obviously wasn't really drunk. Because that might violate YouTube's guidelines. As it is they seemed to have decided that my videos are not "family friendly" enough for their advertisers. I don't quite understand what the criteria are for family friendliness. My videos are not aimed at anyone in particular, mostly I'm just doing this to amuse myself. But I'm an adult man, so I'm sometimes going to be talking about sex. I try to do it euphemistically. If you don't know what a blowjob is, you're not going to get the joke, surely. Yes, I know the humour is cheesy but it lightens the tone and makes it less boring for me (and hopefully for YOU, the viewer) as I go off on a two minute exposition of the chemistry of respiration and combustion. So yeah. I wish that YT published a policy and applied it consistently. One of the funniest and most popular YouTubers, communitychannel (a.k.a. Natalie Tran) regularly makes jokes about masturbation, incest, rape and paedophilia. According to her insight statistics, a large proportion of her viewers are children. And the adverts that YouTube is running next to her videos oftten seem to offering teenage Asian brides to creepy, lonely middle-aged stalkers. (Oh look, a squirrel). I don't quite understand the double standards here. There's also a bunch of other partners who make videos about "mature" themes. Which is all cool. I'm not hating on anyone here, I just wish YT could communicate more effectively with its content providers about what its standards are, and then apply those standards consistently.
Anyway.... The point of this video is that it's usually easier to blow your ember into a flame by not actually blowing on it at all. The flameless combustion involved in a smouldering chemical reaction is basically just the oxidation of the carbon. C + 02 = CO2. One of the simplet reactions around. And the more oxygen you can get to it, the faster it goes and the more heat it releases. But because cellular processes in the body rely on a similar reaction, they produce significant amounts of carbon dioxide, which we expel in our breath.
Dude with great white hunter hat and pedo beard talks rubbish and preteds to be drunk. Hunt some grass. like a statue in the wind. Using the wind to ignite your bird's nest tinder bundle. Tinder fungus. smould (my own word, I suspect, for anything that smoulders well) primitive skills easy ways different methods of making fire Rob withab witha b with a 101 ways 100 ways interesting different comedy scinece project cool awesome best video best jokes south africa mythbusters drunken drunk wine slurring speech impediment

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  • Y did u stop at #12? What about #13,14,15 and so on?

  • @Tommyjai21

    101 Ways to Make Fire #15 now posted.

  • More videos please! They are very very interesting and informative!

  • @LehmannDaHero

    New video posted. Using a pocket knife.

    Comments welcomed.

  • haha.. I love ur vids and yur funny pls upload more....

  • @LordKira53

    There's a new video out now. #14.

    Comments always welcomed.

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  • @DottiTheHotti

    Thanks, Mom. You really didn't have to create a new YT account, though.

  • @TheBeebopper

    Just don't spill your drink on the keyboard....

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  • o thats a blow job! shit ive been doing it wrong...splains alot... 

  • Rob, your videos are funny and amazingly informative. Keep it up - you're awesome!

  • Seems like everything springs alight very easily in Africa! I was camping in Norway this summer - fire making wasn't so easy ;-)

  • Rob, I double dog dare you to cut off your beard and make fire with it.

  • Awesome stuff

  • lol sounds so goofy

  • good

  • lol =)

  • sorry i repeated

  • you are awesome

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