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0 pointsarp2425y ago0 comments

What if we would try to take away its oxygen by covering it with dynamite?

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MartinodF5y ago· 1 in thread

I know you're joking, but dynamite is actually used to extinguish oil well fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well_fire#Extinguishing_th...

arp242OP5y ago

Ah yeah, I actually knew about this; there was a MacGyver episode about it! Weird that I remember this after 20 years...

Well, this network reset (pretty much, suicide as the link says) seems like covering everything with dynamite and starting over.

But the new thing will have fires appear anyway.

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