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People Play Soccer Barefoot With A Ball That’s On Fire
Getting excited for the World Cup? The whole world is! So much so that they’re doing ridiculous things like playing soccer with flaming coconuts that basically shoot out flames whenever they kick it around. Oh, and they’re doing all that barefooted.
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How Scientists Are Trying To Unlock The Secrets Of Bushfires
In the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers use wind tunnels, fire-whirl generators and giant combustion chambers to try to understand how fire spreads. The resulting video is like the demo reel for a Hollywood special effects company.
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Timelapse Video Captures The Terrifying Speed Of The San Diego Fires
This timelapse video shot yesterday near Escondido — in San Diego county — captures the terror of seeing an uncontrollable forest fire coming towards you. What you are seeing here happened in only two and a half hours. The video stops as the 1000-acre fire closed in and the evacuation began at the brewery where…
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How Underground Fires Helped Shape The Landscape Of The American West
The most famous coal seam fire smolders underneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, but thousands of such underground fires burn all over the world. In the American West, where subterranean coal still burn, ancient conflagrations created the red-inflected landscape we see today.