How Fire Burns in Space
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Without the ability to spray water, how do you put out a fire in space? And for that matter, without gravity, what does a burning fire look like? Trace has the answers. Read More: Strange Flames on the ISS http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/18jun_strangeflames/ "For thousands of years, people have been mixing the oxygen-rich air of Earth with an almost endless variety of fuels to produce hot luminous flame." FLEX-ible Insight Into Flame Behavior http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/FLEX_Video.html "Whether free-burning or smoldering, uncontrolled fire can threaten life and destroy property. On Earth, a little water, maybe some chemicals, and the fire is smothered." Weightless Flames: How Fires Burn in Space http://www.space.com/21515-fire-space-microgravity-research.html "How do you put out a fire on a space station? If you were to ask an Earthbound firefighter how to extinguish a fire, he might tell you to aim for the base of the flame. But what if there is no base? What if the flame is a large, pulsing ball of intense fire?" Fire Burns Differently in Space, Space Station Experiment Shows http://www.space.com/13766-international-space-station-flex-fire-research.html "NASA is playing with fire on the International Space Station - literally. Since March 2009, the space agency's Flame Extinguishment Experiment, or FLEX, has conducted more than 200 tests to better understand how fire behaves in microgravity, which is still not well understood. The research could lead to improved fire suppression systems aboard future spaceships, and it could also have practical benefits here on Earth, scientists said." In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/In-Space-Flames-Behave-in-Ways-Nobody-Thought-Possible-179731321.html "Recent tests aboard the International Space Station have shown that fire in space can be less predictable and potentially more lethal than it is on Earth. 'There have been experiments,' says NASA aerospace engineer Dan Dietrich, 'where we observed fires that we didn't think could exist, but did.'" Real-Life Astronaut Weighs In on 'Gravity' http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/09/real-life-astronaut-weighs-in-on-gravity/ "In the new film Gravity, a spacewalk goes horribly awry. A devastating debris storm leaves two astronauts, Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), struggling to survive in space. Audiences and critics love the movie-it's breaking box office records-but we wanted to know if Gravity offered an accurate depiction of life (and a crisis) in space. We asked Roberta Bondar, the first female Canadian astronaut, to walk us through the science behind the movie." Watch More: Sex in Space http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcaIFP6HYU TestTube Wild Card http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-452-time-perception?utm_campaign=DNWC&utm_medium=DNews&utm_source=YT What Astronauts Eat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxavDn270to ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter http://twitter.com/dnews Anthony Carboni on Twitter http://twitter.com/acarboni Laci Green on Twitter http://twitter.com/gogreen18 Trace Dominguez on Twitter http://twitter.com/trace501 DNews on Facebook http://facebook.com/dnews DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com
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what happens when we launch an oxygen tank on the sun?
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okay
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cool video
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I subscribed :)
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fire needs oxygen to burn...."space" has no oxygen, thus how can sonething burn/combust in space?
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"75% of our power comes from burning some kind of thing"
does that include solar power? That also requires the sun to burn. -
NASA Lies. Space is not real. The Earth is Flat.
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Answer to 1:20 ? is Plasma Theory :)
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Yes it can all it needs is oxygen and heat
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If fire needs oxygen to burn how can it burn in space if there's no oxygen??? I call bullshit.
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I had never seen such perfect representation of the Cringe-monster before this video.
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Lies.
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this guy is a yoghurt
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2:24 Crown, Melbourne Australia <3 <3
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What is he saying about flames in space, the sun is a raging ball of fire uncontrolled. The frame work of a galaxy is anchored by star power one hundred billion points of light strong dependent on STORM RAGING FLAMES . All star's are flame's/fire burning in wide open space producing and distributing premium electronic connection's from one star to the other. Visit YOUTUBE SUNLIGHT ELECTRO RAY'S visible showing planetary orbit's powered by sunlight energy not gravity. lol
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could've been interesting but the irritating numpty presenting it ruined it
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stop with the lies.there cant be any flame in space.if space is a vacuum than you cant have a flame sorry why do you lie so much nasa lies
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wahhhwahhh&hh did you just cuhl meh a newrd!?!? im so triggered.
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Do you ever 'breathe' ? Your m@nic 'DeLiVeRy is tOo Much
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I hope this fad of overly-excited scientifically-illiterate fanboys goes away soon... If you dumb things down for the public, you will end up with a dumbed down public... Please go away and bring in some actual scientists (that actually do science)... Discovery, you can bring in young scientists too if that's the demographic you are trying to appeal to... Just stop it with these actors or communications majors turned self-proclaimed "geeks" who try to make science seem hard and mysterious just because they don't know what they're talking about.
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