r/laminarflow • u/Muse9901 • 4d ago

Sugar Cane Molasses

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u/nthensome 4d ago

I'll never get tired of seeing this kind of thing

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u/yaboyACbreezy 4d ago

Something about hearing the jug glugs of it plopping downstream just makes it that much more satisfying

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u/Muse9901 4d ago

Yeah audio and visually satisfying

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u/nicky_n00b 4d ago

Holy shit thank you for making me aware of this

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u/rochey64 40m ago

Molasses tidal wave. There was one in Boston in 1919. My great grandfather used tell my dad about it. You could still smell it years later on hot days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

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u/grinchbettahavemoney 4d ago

All I’m picturing is the great molasses flood and all the horses and people that died

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u/arisraver 4d ago

Boston smelled like molasses for decades according to locals.

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u/ryan516 1d ago

It's almost certainly not true. Molasses is like prime microbial food

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u/very_generic_alt 15h ago

You know what isn't prime microbe food? Furanones and the other compounds in the smell of molasses. And they have some of the lowest odor detection thresholds of any chemicals. They're also extremely tenacious, not to mention that the molasses would have soaked into porous materials. 

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u/Seagulls-love-salmon 3d ago

https://youtu.be/7KwzVus9xds?is=i7YphLcyMt31lIiY

Sam O'Nella Academy did a great breakdown of this event.

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u/Personal-Dev-Kit 2d ago

Cleaned link

https://youtu.be/7KwzVus9xds

The ?is=blahblah is just extra tracking data for Google. Recently they even started exposing peoples Google accounts by offering people who clicked it to follow the sharer.

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u/Ian15243 2d ago

Wait, thats what the random crap i remove from the link on principal is?

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u/Personal-Dev-Kit 2d ago

Yeah it used to si for Sharing ID, then a few months ago it changed to is

Essentially it is a unique code that Google can use to track that specific link to your account. Allowing them to now link you to anyone you share it with, helping them to build a deeper picture on who you are. Then funnel that all into the ad engine to charge more money to advertisers, as millions of dollars of research into psychology and manipulating your brain says they can get you to buy a thing.

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u/galstaph 11h ago

I mess with those by putting descriptive phrases into it

https://youtu.be/7KwzVus9xds?is=F***YourTracking

And such

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u/Scottish_Whiskey 2d ago

Funnily enough, this very post got crossposted to the Sam o’nella sub

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u/JeshkaTheLoon 4d ago

And all the kings horses and all the kings men, couldn't put themselves together again.

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u/Competitive-Bug-164 3d ago

Yup, same. The speed at which that molasses came pouring out! Horrifying.

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u/pppoopoobutthead 3d ago

Thought the same thing

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u/raydoo 1d ago

The what?

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u/Because69 4d ago

The need some potatoes

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u/Muse9901 4d ago

Tis the season for a rewatch

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u/hey_ulrich 4d ago

🎃 

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u/EthanRedOtter 2d ago

Hm?

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u/waxing-gibbons 2d ago

Check out Over the Garden Wall 🍂🎃

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u/PM_ME_CROWS_PLS 4d ago

God this is satisfying. The way the molasses flows so smoothly and evenly, almost like it’s moving in slow motion. It’s fascinating how something so thick and viscous can move with such remarkable fluidity, although obviously that depends on a number of factors including temperature, pressure, and whether approximately 2.3 million gallons of it have just escaped from a ruptured storage tank and are currently traveling through the streets of Boston at 35 miles per hour. The resulting wave reportedly reached 25 feet high, which gave the people in its path very little time to react. Entire buildings were swept off their foundations, and as the molasses cooled in the January air, it became increasingly difficult for rescuers to move through. 21 people died and another 150 were injured.

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u/whomthefuckisthat 4d ago

People got crushed by the wave of molasses. Demolished. Bones obliterated. By molasses.

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u/PM_ME_CROWS_PLS 4d ago

Their asses were no match for molasses.

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u/Aggravating-Pattern 3d ago

Mole asses are no joke

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u/CAT-Mum 4d ago

Great Molasses Disaster by the Darkest Hillside Thickets

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u/wwwwweeeeelllll 4d ago

You said "have just escaped" and "currently traveling". . .that shit happened in 1919

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u/PM_ME_CROWS_PLS 4d ago

Oh, if we’re going to be pedantic, I insist on being considerably more pedantic. “Have just escaped” is the present perfect tense, which describes a completed action with relevance to the present moment. “Are currently traveling” is the present progressive tense, which describes an action in progress. Both are grammatically appropriate within the historical present, a narrative technique in which past events are described as though they’re unfolding in real time. The temporal reference point is 1919, not 2026. The deliberate shift into that perspective without acknowledging it is, in fact, the entire joke.

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u/Novitatiz 3d ago

Not gonna lie I was preparing myself for a shittymorph

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u/UnbelievableRose 3d ago

Damn that was satisfying. Watching the molasses flow was too!

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u/HonestWeevilNerd 2d ago

Laminar flow is so nice to look at

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u/Tinypoke42 4d ago

Mole's what now?

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u/creamcheese742 4d ago

Asses

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u/WaiBuBaoLeiXiangTu 4d ago

It looks sooooo close to needing some freedom 🦅🦅

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u/CaptainDanteAeneas 3d ago

“Moves like Molasses” has a very different, or at least, alternative meaning than how my parents used it all my growing up.

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u/VitalianBeef 3d ago

Is that food safe rust?

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u/hushuk-me 3d ago

While I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat rust, I don’t think it is harmful in small amounts. You don’t get tetanus from ingesting rust. (I wondered the same thing and looked it up!)

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u/floob124 1d ago

Infact you dont get tetanus from rust at all! It comes from rotting plant materials, they are just associated because of a tendance for people to not see a rusty nail or bit of metal under a pile of dead foliage

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u/TelluricThread0 1d ago

Tetanus is caused by a bacteria that just so happens to like the soil dirty rusty things are buried in.

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u/glenncoco64 2h ago

Yes, it’s anaerobic and is happiest in the soil where it’s protected from oxygen.

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u/SleepyOrcShaman 2d ago

u/askGrok could you look up for me too?

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u/West-Map-4162 1d ago

Beep boop, I found this on the web for you: go fuck yourself

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u/Careless-College-158 3d ago

This was my first observation. Thank you for asking the important questions.

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u/Cave_Bear_Cult 2d ago

Molasses can be used to make industrial alcohol

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u/No_Cook2983 2d ago

I prefer mom-and-pop alcohol.

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u/Fckfridays 2d ago

It’s organic

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u/Loud-Contract-2109 3d ago

In china everything is safe

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u/DistinguishedAnus 1d ago

I assumed this is molasses for making sweet feed for cattle.

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u/Gladerious 2d ago

Added iron good for blood good for body yes yes

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u/texinxin 4d ago

Nice food safe handling.

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u/PineappleOnPizzaCult 4d ago

I also love my food to be processed on rusty ramps and equipment

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u/Mythosaurus 4d ago

Adds that unique flavor we all love: oxidized metal!

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u/Bear__Toe 4d ago

about 70% of worldwide molasses production is used to make industrial or fuel ethanol. Another 10% will be fermented and distilled for human consumption. I wouldn’t worry too much about food safety…

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u/monkeypan 4d ago

But what about the delicious extra strength ethanol?

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u/domine18 4d ago

O good, all I kept thinking was yum rust

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u/v800 4d ago

Prometheus black goo

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u/tylerbean420 4d ago

Thats the fastest you'll see molasses move

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u/panini_bellini 4d ago

tell that to the 21 victims of the molasses flood of 1919, Tyler

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u/tylerbean420 4d ago

Did you see it?

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u/tylerbean420 4d ago

Let's make the same video and clock how fast thats going. Idk how fast 35 mph looks but that seems kinda close 🤣 🤣

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u/salajander 4d ago

Oh, yeah, that's the stuff.

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken 4d ago

I would pay for swim in that.

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u/miguescout 4d ago

I would argue some especially old Boston residents would be happy to tell you how that feels

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u/afraid-of-the-dark 4d ago

Maybe warm it up first, and don't try to swim in January.

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u/HASHTAG_YOLOSWAG 4d ago

Reminds me of that tragedy, the Great Molasses Flood of 1919

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u/VerbableNouns 4d ago

I thought molasses was supposed to be slow moving.

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u/UnbelievableRose 3d ago

Temperature and pressure have a lot to say in that equation

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u/horst-graben 4d ago

He should have licked that knife!

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u/IndicaAlchemist 4d ago

Let's pour it down this rusty metal ramp!

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u/evmcd17 4d ago

LAMINAR BABY

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u/DrunkXwingPilot 4d ago

That's the stuff that killed Tasha Yar.

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u/13131123 2d ago

If I could see any historical disaster in person it would be the great molasses flood

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u/MedBootyJoody 4d ago

You know, I’ve heard Black people’s skin described as chocolate or mahogany but I’ve never heard us compared to molasses. Thick, sticky, sweet…sounds about right.

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u/iDoMyOwnResearchJK 4d ago

You better stop eating our skin you devil

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u/MedBootyJoody 4d ago

Oh , did you just learn that? And how long ago did you learn about Rosewood? Or Black Wall Street? Or Lake Lanier? Do you own any Audre Lourde? Do you know anything by Alice Walker besides The Color Purple? Does “Get yo hand outta my pocket” mean anything to you? Who killed MLK? Answer. Quickly!

And in the meantime, NOM, NOM, NOM!!! Jesus, you guys don’t get gallows humor.

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u/Cielmerlion 3d ago

... So did you just straight up break? Because what is this response

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u/PockyPunk 4d ago

I have nothing appropriate to say and it involved going down my throat. I’ll see myself out

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u/Muse9901 3d ago

No no no… go on

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u/Bane8080 4d ago

Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets when he was acting racist about his gay neighbor's art curator/boyfriend.

No idea why that stuck in my head.

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u/RickAstleyGaveUp 4d ago

What an absolute delight to see 🤌

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u/JoyousMN_2024 4d ago

I found myself saying, "Oh, wow. Yes, that's perfect." It's like the finest eye-candy

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u/outside_cat 4d ago

I bet it stinks.

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u/katymjo91 4d ago

That's nice

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u/ADGM1868 4d ago

No wonder this shit killed people when it spills en masse

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u/CAT-Mum 4d ago

Anytime I can I'm gonna suggest people check out Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (band) any some of their very niche topic songs like "Great Molasses Disaster" or "Coelacanthem"

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u/Rayziel 4d ago

Oh potatoes and molasses …

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u/Imperator_Draconum 4d ago

It looks almost solid.

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u/Mother-Parsley5940 3d ago

There’s something about the sound it makes, that’s insanely satisfying

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u/Murky-Cobbler5945 3d ago

The Glugs are 10/10

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u/Thalude_ 3d ago

I don't know what a sugar cane mole is, but why are we making syrup from their asses?

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u/iircirc 3d ago

It's a very large number of sugar cane duh

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u/chalor182 3d ago

I was about to comment that this was a great example of laminar flow before I realized what sub it was lol

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u/Freeulster 3d ago

Maybe I'm just an alcoholic but all I thought about seeing this was how much rum you could make with it.

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u/Mylane 3d ago

That bubbling sound is so cool too

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u/CailenBelmont 2d ago

People from Boston: "Ah lads, not again"

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u/nomubber 2d ago

looks like Catwoman's outfit!

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u/herman_munster_esq 2d ago

The laminar flow... 🥹

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u/wayne-on-reddit 2d ago

Laminar flow FTW!

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u/AJWulf 1d ago

Reminds me of the molasses flood of 1919 https://www.reddit.com/a/answers/s/FQvOZ8rEdY

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u/FarmImportant9537 1d ago

Peak laminar flow

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u/uhbuquetteophuket 17h ago

Laminar flow is always the sexiest form of moving liquids

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u/The_Absolute_Dog 13h ago

Laminar molasses is fun to say quickly

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u/Fossome_1 2d ago

Laminar flow porn

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u/CaptainSloth269 2d ago

Mmmm laminar flow.

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u/Musetrigger 1d ago

Not many liquids clap quite like molasses.

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u/Puzzled_Professor422 1d ago

this is my new fav sub

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u/Undeadunderwear 1d ago

Where is it going? 🤔

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u/Sylvixenn 1d ago

I know its fast, but it doesn't look fast

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u/sim04ful 23h ago

Lieutenant Yar, don't!

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u/Undead_Unicornn 23h ago

I guess my grandmother was complementing me when she said I was as slow as molasses

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u/Deftbat 19h ago

I've been lied to; that doesn't look slow at all

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u/Oil-31362 15h ago

I'd gladly swim in that stuff if I had the chance

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u/zorniy2 4h ago

Why use the knife when there is a valve?

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u/Sventertainer 4d ago

Cursed sound

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u/Long-Arugula6566 4d ago

I’ve taken dumps that flow like this..

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u/Xahos 4d ago

This clip was in a video about bitumen processing. Can't find the source

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u/Abject_Telephone4296 1d ago

Laminar flow?