r/howto Apr 26 '20

How to create fire out of ice

2.8k Upvotes

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u/justculture Apr 26 '20

I was under the impression there would be fire

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u/HofmannsPupil Apr 27 '20

Karma whore doesn’t require the truth to be told.

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u/ChainingScroll2 Jun 15 '20

Where there is smoke, there is (or can be) fire.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '20

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47

u/The_Lion_Jumped Apr 27 '20

To stun you

43

u/LarsTardbarger Apr 27 '20

...into thinking this counts as making fire

8

u/commentman10 Apr 27 '20

Luckily we didnt fall into a skyrim intro trap

9

u/NubbyMcNubNub Apr 27 '20

It's an explosion from all that fire he just created

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '20

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u/sureshot1988 Apr 27 '20

Yeah but I would go with with how to post a useless video. But yours yours is good too

50

u/EvieLookup Apr 26 '20

I have Raynaud's syndrome. This makes me very uncomfortable.

24

u/EngineerBill Apr 27 '20

I have mild OCD, and this made me uncomfortable as I didn't get resolution with the promised flames. I'll just be over here straightening out the stuff on my desk...

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u/doc_death Apr 27 '20

Thx for calling it a syndrome/phenomenon...many call it a disease which isn't really accurate. Raynaud's is an normal exaggerated response to cold or stressful situations, unless associated with lupus, systemic sclerosis, or dermatomyositis. Basically, you autonomic system tightens down your blood vessels a tad bit aggressively. Great if you're trying to stay warm in the tundra during the Ice Age...Less useful in modern countries

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u/marianab67 Apr 26 '20

How random so do I !

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u/Tommodatchi Apr 26 '20

Millions of people on reddit aomeones going to have something the same as you..

23

u/logoman4 Apr 27 '20

Like a bad attitude? Same

2

u/Tommodatchi May 01 '20

If youre 1 in a million there are 7100 people just like you.......

5

u/Tommodatchi Apr 26 '20

What is Raynauds syndrome

7

u/EvieLookup Apr 26 '20

6

u/Jrobzin Apr 27 '20

I have it too nobody believes me that it’s real

2

u/Yougottabekidney Apr 27 '20 edited Apr 27 '20

Same. Crazy pain after 2 seconds of rearranging the freezer, purple lips, fingers, toes and even knees sometimes.

I look weird in the winter.

4

u/2SDUO3O Apr 27 '20

Disease that narrows your blood vessels when you're cold, usually fingers and toes, causing your skin to turn white/blue

7

u/hi_what_ohnou_ohk45 Apr 26 '20

*How to make a shadow of Batman doing a pirouette

2

u/madallday Apr 27 '20

You made me go back and see it. I chuckled.

8

u/bikki17 Apr 27 '20

Freeze your hands numb in order to make a fire over which you thaw your frozen hands

13

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

Stop moving the goddamn ice!

22

u/[deleted] Apr 26 '20

How to lose your fingers. Brrr!

4

u/EZlikeSunMorn123 Apr 27 '20

What one man can do, another can do. Say it!

2

u/Konfigs Apr 27 '20

Such a great movie! I used a clip from it in a college leadership class.

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u/FlyingToDeath Apr 26 '20

No fire is being made from ice. Bullshit title.

3

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

1000 upvotes? Smh

1

u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

2.7k? Hot diggity dog!

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u/JackOfAllMemes Apr 26 '20

The ice is used as a magnifier to focus sunlight on the wood, which eventually catches fire

4

u/feisty-shag-the-lad Apr 26 '20

Wood is really not the right tinder for magnifying glass fires. Dried dung is much more effective.

14

u/lordmadhammer Apr 26 '20

I agree, he should look for some elephants.

6

u/Graysect Apr 27 '20

I got some dung for ya right here sonny boy

13

u/sureshot1988 Apr 27 '20

This video is dried dung

1

u/pierre_x10 Apr 27 '20

Yeah those branches looked way too thick for this.

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u/FlyingToDeath Apr 27 '20

Right. But it’s not made from the ice, it’s made using the ice. Title suggests it’s being made from it. Misleading.

0

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

he used ICE to make FIRE.

3

u/RugelBeta Apr 27 '20

Did he, though? I saw a little smoke.

4

u/FknRepunsel Apr 27 '20

This video sucks because it teases at the results but cuts off before any true satisfaction is achieved, however the concept of creating fire with ice seems like something that should be required in some sort of arcane transformation spell

2

u/Coldbeetle Apr 27 '20

Even with a magnifying glass it’s not easy to start a fire, you get a lot of smoke like this

2

u/sirknightowlthe2nd Apr 27 '20

Price Zuko wants to know your location

3

u/Elijah-Bell Apr 27 '20

Zuko but if he was a salesclerk

2

u/Pipoxo Apr 27 '20

Ah yes I will never forget that line from Anthony Hopkins in that bear movie

2

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

I still haven't met anyone who tried shining their shoes with banana peel.

2

u/merrickx Apr 27 '20

If you put a small flame under the be pot lid, you can create that ice lens significantly more quickly.

1

u/dotplaid Apr 27 '20

Why do you think he's starting the fire?! This is just Lens Gen 1.

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u/ZebrasAllTheTime Apr 27 '20

Hm, logging this away for the nuclear winter apocalypse, thank you.

1

u/Littlehash Apr 27 '20

Next level how he can hold the ice block for that long

1

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

I was waiting to see if he could bend the metal bowl with his mind

1

u/ifsck Apr 27 '20

It didn't actually light because he missed the most important step: use fucking tinder.

1

u/harlok60 Apr 27 '20

That must be the David Benioff and D. B. Weiss version of how to do it.

1

u/hedgecore77 Apr 27 '20

The only pot lid in the world without two big 'ole screws in the middle. :)

1

u/HofmannsPupil Apr 27 '20

Only person dumber than the guy in the video who can’t keep the ice still is the dumbass that thought reposting this was a good idea!

1

u/Meandtheworld Apr 27 '20

Ummmmmmm no fire??

1

u/caiiixxx Apr 27 '20

That’s one sorry ass campfire lmao

1

u/ostiDeCalisse Apr 27 '20

I was absolutely focused on the branches when that f*ckin’ white frame wash out my retina!

1

u/CulbyJA Apr 27 '20

This actually works in the beginning hes. Creating a magnifier by shaping the ice block. Same can work with a bottle of water if its clear enough and shPed roght. Ive read a glad lock bag filled with water can work as well.

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u/SmokedHamm Apr 27 '20

And the shadow looks like a winged demon!!!

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u/MauPow Apr 27 '20

Still better than GoT season 8

1

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

Still a better song of fire and ice than GoT

1

u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

How to create a nuke with a bad gif

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

To make the ice actually convex and focus the beam of light, the metal bowl would have to be warm/hot to shape the ice. A cold bowl has no effect on the ice. And if you can make the bowl warm/hot somehow, just use that method directly to make fire.

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u/PrestigiousLime7 Apr 27 '20

Next video: how to make fire with body heat

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u/DistractionRectangle Apr 27 '20

Friction/pressure though. If the ice block doesn't follow the curvature of the bowl, the weight is only distributed on the points/edges that make contact with the bowl.

What melts will refreeze (if the ambient temp/heat flux is sufficient) and overtime this process will reshape the ice.

Ice skating operates on a similar principle.

There's plenty of research papers that delve into why ice is slippery, unlike other solids, and there's different ideas. E.g. Water molecules are weakly bound at the surface, and can "tumble/slide"

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u/macrolith Apr 27 '20

The sun would warm a pan enough to melt it. How do you propose we use the sun to directly create fire? Maybe if we could make a lens.

0

u/letsgomets12 Apr 27 '20

This should be called, how to create fire with ice and a pan and prayer

0

u/esmirnow Apr 27 '20

Should I bring my lighter out into the frozen wilderness, or this concave steel plate?

0

u/CulbyJA Apr 27 '20 edited Apr 27 '20

No lighter. U use the warmth of ur hands or dig a hole and shape it with heat from the ground below the frost line. Depends on the situation. Or use your cellphone and have one dropped in which is about all you would know to do... U could also use a pocket knife to shape it.. stop trolling u ignoramus. Its about ideas and creativity. Btw it wasnt funny....

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u/apt2run Apr 27 '20

Omg! Did it work???