101 Ways to MAKE FIRE – #12 The Wind and the Wine Glass

How to blow your tinder bundle into flame, without even opening your mouth (except to drone on endlessly about the chemical reaction of combustion). Often, the most difficult part of getting a fire going is not getting the ember. As you can see in this video, it only takes a few seconds to ignite a piece of tinder fungus, even with a contrived lens. Although the rounded part at the base of the wine glass is not a complete sphere, it doesn’t really matter because it is a section of a sphere, with parallel sides. Solar power is usually your most reliable and simplest source of energy for an ignition source, it’s intuitive (mostly) and doesn’t require too much practice. As I tried to show here, lenses can be found in the strangest places. Mythbusters discovery weird science physics chemistry tutorial brusspup I’ll flesh this description out a bit later. SUBTITLE TRANSLATIONS ON THE WAY. (of course it doesn’t really help me typing this in English in the video description now, does it?) The whole drunken act here was a spur of the moment thing, just to explain why I had a wine glass in my hand. Obviously wasn’t really drunk. Because that might violate YouTube’s guidelines. As it is they seemed to have decided that my videos are not “family friendly” enough for their advertisers. I don’t quite understand what the criteria are for family friendliness. My videos are not aimed at anyone in particular, mostly I’m just doing this to amuse myself. But I’m an adult man, so I’m …
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The ending of The Subspace Emissary in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. This was a triumph. I’m making a note here: huge success. It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.