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expose-the-light:

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Fire
1  Fire is an event, not a thing. Heating wood or other fuel releases volatile vapors that can rapidly combust with oxygen in the air; the resulting incandescent bloom of gas further heats the fuel, releasing more vapors and perpetuating the cycle.
2  Most of the fuels we use derive their energy from trapped solar rays. In photosynthesis, sunlight and heat make chemical energy (in the form of wood or fossil fuel); fire uses chemical energy to produce light and heat.
3  So a bonfire is basically a tree running in reverse.
4  Assuming stable fuel, heat, and oxygen levels, a typical house fire will double in size every minute.
5  Earth is the only known planet where fire can burn. Everywhere else: Not enough oxygen.
6  Conversely, the more oxygen, the hotter the fire. Air is 21 percent oxygen; combine pure oxygen with acetylene, a chemical relative of methane, and you get an oxyacetylene welding torch that burns at over 5,500 degrees Fahrenheit—the hottest fire you are likely to encounter.
7  Oxygen supply influences the color of the flame. A low-oxygen fire contains lots of uncombusted fuel particles and will give off a yellow glow. A high-oxygen fire burns blue.
8  So candle flames are blue at the bottom because that’s where they take up fresh air, and yellow at the top because the rising fumes from below partly suffocate the upper part of the flame.
9  Fire makes water? It’s true. Place a cold spoon over a candle and you will observe the water vapor condense on the metal…
10 …because wax—like most organic materials, including wood and gasoline—contains hydrogen, which bonds with oxygen to make H2O when it burns. Water comes out your car’s tailpipe, too.
11  We’ve been at this a long time: Charred bones and wood ash indicate that early hominids were tending thefirst intentional fires more than 400,000 years ago.
12  Nature’s been at it awhile, too. A coal seam about 140 miles north of Sydney, Australia, has been burning by some estimates for 500,000 years.
13  The ancient Greeks started fire with concentrated sunlight. A parabolic mirror that focuses solar rays is still used to ignite the Olympic torch.
14  Every 52 years, when their calendar completed a cycle, the Aztecs would extinguish every flame in the empire. The high priest would start a new fire on the ripped-open chest of a sacrificial victim. Fires fed from this flame would be distributed throughout the land.
15  Good burn: The 1666 Great Fire of London destroyed 80 percent of the city but also ended an outbreak of bubonic plague that had killed more than 65,000 people the previous year. The fire fried the rats and fleas that carried Yersinia pestis, the plague-causing bacterium.
16  The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin was the second deadliest blaze in United States history, taking 1,200 lives—four times as many as the Great Chicago Fire. Both conflagrations broke out on the same day: October 8, 1871.
17  America’s deadliest fire took place April 27, 1865, aboard the steamship Sultana. Among other passengers were 1,500 recently released Union prisoners traveling home up the Mississippi when the boilers exploded. The ship was six times over capacity, which helps explain the death toll of 1,547.
18  The Black Dragon Fire of 1987, the largest wildfire in modern times, burned some 20 million acres across China and the Soviet Union, an area about the size of South Carolina.
19  Spontaneous combustion is real. Some fuel sources can generate their own heat—by rotting, for instance. Pistachios have so much natural oil and are so prone to heat-generating fat decomposition that the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code regards them as dangerous.
20  Haystacks, compost heaps, and even piles of old newspapers and magazines can also burst into flame. A good reason to recycle DISCOVER when you are done.

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oceanmaster:

TIME FOR ANOTHER PHISHING WARNING
This scam is smart. This one recognizes just how quickly Tumblr likes to latch onto viral campaigns, and has set itself up as such.
The grey image-box links to this image (hosted on Imgur.com, this link is safe), detailing a call to action about a “Lost Beatles Concert” — This is actually a real thing, there are news reports (BBC) for this event. The image delivers a great hook for young users too (let’s impress our peers with our “pure music tastes”).
However, the text in the message does not point to the website. It is a shortened URL, which points to a site that is known for phishing.
If you ever need to know where a shortened URL points to, you have a couple of options available to you:
The easiest is LongURL.com, which shows exactly where you will be redirected to. (plus a screenshot if available - in this case, no)

Failing this, many shortlink providers (like bit.ly, j.mp, tinyurl.com, goog.le) allow you to preview the link by adding symbols/words to the link. Here is a list of these preview codes.
Just, please followers. Exercise caution. The internet is stupid.

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양을 새다: A Piece of Advice

naqseo:

I have a few fan accounts that I’m not too happy about, so I’m going to write them here, and hopefully, instead of getting angry, you will listen with an open mind and learn from this…

The first one would be after the concert. I was walking backstage right when MBLAQ was leaving and the scariest thing happened. Unfortunately, MBLAQ didn’t make it to their bus before the crowd was let out of the venue, so as they were leaving, a hoard of people surrounded them. That’s not the part I care about. What I care about was the girl who literally clung to Joon. She grabbed him from behind, wouldn’t let him go, and I have to say, his face was horrified. I was frozen with shock and couldn’t help him due to the amount of people there, but thank God the manager showed up to pry her off. I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t do that. It’s pretty plain and simple. The manager was not happy, and it ended up making Joon go out by himself to be alone for the night because he needed to decompress. It’s pretty selfish to make Joon uncomfortable for your own benefit.

Second, at the hotel while I was with the manager, two girls came up to him and rudely spoke to him while asking him to do them a favor. They had a gift bag for MBLAQ and said to him, in English, “We’ve been holding these for three days, can’t you just take them to MBLAQ?” of course, he responded in Korean, because he doesn’t speak English very well, and then they had the audacity to say, “I don’t even know what you’re saying.”

Listen up and listen well, you are asking him to do you a favor. Don’t be rude. Second, he is Korean. Not everyone speaks English. He doesn’t understand you just as much as you don’t understand him. When it comes to MBLAQ’s manager in particular, DO NOT speak English to him. He gets really flustered when you do that because he can’t understand you and it bothers him and annoys him a lot.

Lastly, he was stressed out all night taking gifts from fans and I am going to tell you guys this right now so that you can know for future events: don’t give idols plush toys or anything big and inexpensive. You have to remember that they are flying internationally and cannot take all of the gifts they receive on the plane. If you do give them gifts like that, they will be thrown away, guaranteed. Get them something small and valuable that is worth taking, or give them a letter. That’s the only way.

(Source: naqseo)

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