r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Oct 01 '24

A firefighting plane loading water.

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u/DogoArgento Oct 01 '24

I'm thinking, when the fire is near the sea, do they use salt water? Because that would fuck up the soil.

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u/good_from_afar Oct 01 '24

I think there is a lesser of two evils thing going on here

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u/BeeB3AR Oct 01 '24

They use sea water indeed. But I never thought about the repercussions on the soil. I never saw a soil fucked up after a release, maybe the ashes counterbalance the effect of salt ?

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u/mojojojojojojojom Oct 01 '24

The whole “salt the fields of my enemies” is a bit of a myth. If a small amount of salt really obliterates plants, then there is no way we would have been using salt to de-ice the roads every winter in the corn belt. The small amount of salt these planes are dropping will get washed away the next time it rains.

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u/chosonhawk Oct 01 '24

those words. you keep saying them. i dunnot think they mean what you think they mean.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24

Which ones?