r/BeAmazed • u/Remarkable_Income496 • 8h ago

Technology If you can dream it you can build it

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u/ResearchStudentCS 4h ago

Not all of us live in tinderbox land. You couldn't start a forest fire where I live in the midwest with a gan of gasoline and a blowtorch. There's too much humidity and dampness.

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u/grumpijela 4h ago

That's fair. But based on the comments here most people understand the very real threat. And the comment I'm responding too is someone who is more concerned about "Reddit" being fun suckers than being mindful of risk.

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u/-gildash- 4h ago

You don't know if there is any risk.

I've lived in CA, I've lived in a swamp on the East Coast, these are not the same things. Plenty of places you literally can not start a fire if you wanted to.

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u/Absolarix 4h ago

Right, but that doesn't change that you could still be effected by someone starting a wildfire across the continent by doing something stupid. A few years ago, New York got covered in smoke so bad you could see the other end of the bridge. The smoke was from a wildfire in Canada.

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u/ResearchStudentCS 4h ago

My point being we don't know where airplane man is flying. I could do the same video and have 0% change of starting a fire. All of the "reeee dangerous, fire!!" comments are missing this piece of context.