Why Do People Say Snow is Fake?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I check whether or not snow is fake and explain why some have claimed it seems to not do wht you would expect in a flame.
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There really are people who will notice that a thing didn't react the way they expected it to and instead of being filled with wonder about how complex the world is, or excitement over a new thing to learn, they point and yell "Witch!"
Sheep will be sheep
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Hm I wonder where I've seen this before...
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When I was a kid we had a blizzard where we lived, and my family, along with my grandparents, went out and dug big tunnels in the snow to get from place to place. But eventually we kept digging more tunnels for fun, and then when it got dark my grandma brought candles out to light up the area, we dug shelves to put them. It lit up the tunnels from the inside, and it was honestly beautiful, the roads had long been cleared so cars would slow down as they passed to look at it.
Was one of my best memories as a kid, but even back then I realized that above the snow shelves where the heat from the candles hit it was turning black and not melting. I guess not a lot of people played with fire and snow at the same time as kids, heh.
Did the soot help the area above the shelves not melt too fast? I would think the carbon in the soot would help insulate it a bit.
@@heyspookyboogie644 We used to dig tunnels every winter in the mountains of snow we got. We would take my mom's candles and put them on a little shelf and they would eventually form their own chimney.
But yeah there would be a tiny bit of soot near the candle.
That sounds absolutely amazing. I've never seen snow deep enough to tunnel in.
That experience sounds absolutely amazing would have loved to experience something like that.
That's a cool memory, thanks for sharing it :)
I came across this a handful of years ago. I tried it myself, and I was so fascinated I did it several more times throughout that winter. I used a BIC lighter. What I learned was interesting.
The burnt snow smelled like burning plastic. The last snowball I burned that year didn't burn, it melted. It also had no smell. After doing research on what caused snow to fall (and learning it's the same as rain) and what function it served (cleaning the air), I came to the conclusion that the first snowfall of that winter was dirtier than the last. That got me thinking.
Throughout the following three seasons, I collected rainwater periodically and studied it (smelled it, let it settle to see how much crap was in it, super simple shit that requires no special equipment). Early spring rainwater had less crap in it than late summer/early autumn rainwater.
It may be that the last snowball was already starting to melt which is why it readily melted when I tried burning it. That doesn't, however, cover the lack of soot.
If nothing else, I made peace with snow during that winter. I might try burning some snow over a piece of paper tomorrow, letting it dry and seeing if the liquid carries the soot away from the snowball (providing we got enough snow this year to clean the atmosphere enough).
Has anyone else tried this?
I have not but happy to hear, good stuff
That plastic smell is probably why people end up thinking that snow is fake.
I wish I had the gusto to do anything like you have the gusto to look at rain water
It is more than probably pollutants from the air, the water in the clouds pick them up from extremely polluted areas like some parts of China and Africa and carry them over to other countries like the US where it turns into snow
The snowball goes black because of the soot from the yellow flame of the lighter.
Use a blue flame and there will be no soot left on the snowball.
I thought I was dumb, but then there's people who think snow is fake
@@KonekoPurrrfection . . . And DON'T go on a round-the-world cruise offered by the Flat Earth Society.
Its true, I have seen fake snow in movies
You don’t test your assumptions? That’s superstitious of you
@@Secretname951 That's not what superstitions are…
Those are not mutually exclusive statements 😂. You could be dumb whilst some people think snow is fake.
I was unaware of that trend but this makes a totally other snow-related natural phenomenon I experienced in the last couple days so much more clear to me thank you!
I’ve played disc golf throughout the winter for the first time this winter.
I’ve become pretty familiar with different types of snow in various stages of solidity/melting.
But I’m encountering a new(to me) thing now-
Large swaths of the courses that previously were snow have now become treacherous lumpy ice-rinks.
I’d never thought this deeply about the way that capillary action works with snow beginning to melt and refreeze at the tail end of winter when the temperature is going up and down close to freezing temperatures.
A snowball is basically a sponge. So when it melts it starts to absorb itself
Yep. Decreasing volume and increasing density.
@hyparh yeah, science.
@@fishstix4209 yeah, science bitch!
Snow/water is really an amazing chemical when you think about it!
@@zipnny1595 no u'r an amazing chemical 😤
I'm sad that we needed this.
I've seen the "fake snow" videos, too.
Yea, and here i was thinking this nonsense was done last year...apparently not.
Right. Like flat earth.
Agreed people are not very smart.
Yup. Idiots who don't pay attention in science class. Just like the newscaster who asked if the (then) new Boeing plane could go Mach 20. Just like over half of the journalists out there, as far as I can tell.
@@stcredzero Mach 20? I have not heard of this. Anyways the "fake snow" is akin to not listening to mainstream media - some times it is a very good idea not to, but honestly who the hell thinks there is a hidden agenda around "snow" (mental🤪)
I've lived in the South my entire life, and although we've occasionally had snow here, it's never really been enough, or lasted long enough, for me to take a snowball and try to melt it with a lighter like that. I was honestly surprised **not** to see water dripping down while the snowball was above the flame like that. How cool that the snowball "absorbs" its own meltwater like a sponge as it melts. Had no idea that was even possible!
It’s sad when many people experience something they don’t expect don’t go “Wow that’s interesting. Why was my preconceived notions on how this would go different? Let’s find out why.”But instead think “Woah this isn’t going how I THINK it should work. I’m obviously right so this is clearly a conspiracy!”
thousands of years passing by and people still "creating a gods" for anything they don't understand instead of trying to figure it out or ask someone else to teach them (and listen to those people)
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@Miguel Silva
1: your name is familiar to me
2: why?
@Miguel Silva Businesses will always do everything in their power to cover up events like this when their public leakage would lead to the destruction of the companies entire reputation, it's sad that it is this way but it often is. I assume most of the towns top brass was bribed in such a manner to help keep it under wraps
I felt smart for a second for thinking sublimation might be involved, and it's like you proved me wrong personally. Kudos
Initial observation would suggest that. But there is a reason many say 'wet' and 'dry' snow. They have two very different characteristics base on the water content. Also, there is some sublimation, but not enough to really matter here.
and of course the blackening is just soot.
Glad my reasoning was correct. I had always assumed the snow that does melt was being sucked up into the dry snow but i never tried to test it because I didn't really think to. Irregardless it's a really cool experiment and the fact the weight stays the same as it's melting until full saturation is also super cool.
I’m a science teacher who works with young kids, so I can say that it takes a tremendous amount of patience when it comes to correcting modern false information and misconceptions about how science works. Especially when someone with all the information in the world at their fingertips claims that snow is fake or doesn’t understand how sponges work or what hydrocarbon soot from burning fossil fuels is. This when people in the 1800’s lighting their homes with kerosene lamps fully understood those simple concepts and taught them to kids in one-room schoolhouses (considered “primitive” by today’s standards). I have children’s science books published in the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s in my collection that explain everything in this video. One of my oldest science books published in the 1890’s shows how kids can write their name with the soot from a candle flame. It really makes me sad. So I really appreciate simple, educational videos like this that can at least help nudge some of our species back on track.
PS- If you had completely melted that sooty snowball and allowed it to evaporate, the carbon soot would still be there left on the pan.
Interesting fact: Both Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison went around collecting this soot, also called “lamp black”, from people’s oil lamps for use in various electrical experiments. The invention of the telephone was made possible by compressing this lamp black soot into a small button that acted as a voice microphone diaphragm resistor. This was in the late 1800’s. You can find find acrylic paint at hobby shops called “Lamp Black”. It’s a deep black color and got it’s name from lamp soot. ❤
Hi Daniel! Lamp Black is actually a very old pigment that has been used since the earliest civilisations; it was a readily available black pigment. It was - and still is - used to manufacture artist paints. But I think today the pigment manufacturing process is different.
Oh is that where they got carbon from? Interesting.
@@epicredhead13 What?
I think you're overanalyzing the situation Daniel, and underestimate your own access to memish fake science. There might be a meme tiktok fake claime that snow is fake now. Or maybe some hashtag on twitter that trended an aftertoon, But I really doubt that many people believed that "snow is fake now". Specially when it melts in their hand while the pull the trick on the video.
So that's where the name 'lamp black' comes from! Thank you for sharing! I guess today you could use graphite instead of lamp soot since it should be mostly carbon
As someone who lives in tropical area and *never* see any snow IRL, when they try to burn the snow with candle and it's start to blacken, even I *intuitively* know that the soot is condensing on the cooler surface.
istg some people doesn't deserve their high school diploma…
But calling snow fake and saying government is lying must mean their iq us in single digits. They are not the only one in the world with a government.
@Just Looking Even so, many have high school diplomas who don't deserve them. Then again, some of the high schools in this country are really bad, so it doesn't take much to deserve a diploma from them. And then you have the mail-order diplomas (or at least did . . . wonder whatever happened to that scam?).
people that make these claims are the same sort of person that belives in chemtrails, flat earth, you name it - all the "theories" that fall apart in milliseconds once you apply basic common knowledge e.g. how planes work. But even people that COULD know better belive in that sort of thing if it helps them to make sense about the world we live in - its sad.
@Miguel Silva bait
@Miguel Silva you're the kinda person to say "don't know, don't care" and put on sunglasses right after saying that unironically
When I was a little kid living on the coast, I thought snow was fake because I never saw it with my own eyes. On TV, I would see shows where it would snow during Christmas or New Years, but because it never happened around where I lived, I didn't belive it was real. That was until the day I went to the mountains during summer that I saw snow for the first time, and I recall it was one of the happiest moments in my life.
What country you from?
@@Kimmy-Shortvids Somewhere near the equator.
never heard anyone call snow 'fake'
You haven't been on social media outside of facebook and youtube
@@ChrisG1392 thank god
@@ChrisG1392 i would only call that a victory
QAnon stuff
das cs ur not dumb... unlike sume people sadly
Definitely shows the importance of designing tests that try to disprove your hypothesis, not just ones that might make you think it's correct.
they just close their ears to any contradictions
@@justaboringperson For sure. The strategy of attempting to disprove your hypothesis is used only be people who want to find out what is right, not by people who want their pet hypothesis to be right.
And hurt my narrative? Hell no! I'm right, you're wrong, and I will cover my ears and go "lalalalalaala" as loud as I need to until I've proven I'm right.
Absolutely, in world war z there was this little section in the book, it was something like when nine of ten agree on one specific thing, it’s up to the tenth man to try and disprove it
I always found that interesting, like try to disprove yourself, so that if you’re wrong you’ll realise, and if you’re right you’ve learned even more
@@goodmorning2386 I think the NSA kinda does this, they have a concept called Red Teaming, where you have a small part of the team go through a drill as the "Bad Guys", and if they find a weakness they exploit it. Same idea for penetration testing for computer systems. Always better to have someone who won't use the weakness, they'll just highlight that you have it.
I've lived in snowy places my whole life but never thought of what would happen if you held a flame to a snowball until now. You've broadened my horizons.
So basically it’s just the melted water wicking up into the air gaps in the rest of the snowball, and the soot from the lighter itself
Yep, if ya do the experiment with a propane torch on high flame; it doesnt leave soot bcuz of it bein a more complete burn and it does indeed start to melt in a reasonable time bcuz of both the high heat and large heatin area of a propane torch
@@SylviaRustyFae Yep, stoichiometry, blue flame is a clean-burning flame.
The important part is showing the process to get to that answer with common household tools and a minimal setup. The people affected by conspiracy theories need to be able to reach the answers on their own because there's (undestandably, nowadays) a problem with trust.
I remember hearing about this claim back when some place in the us had a lot of snow for the first time in decades.
The soot can also be from the dust in the snow. When snow melts on a snow trail in the spring, amazing how much dust and crap there is in it that accumulated through the winter months.
@@SylviaRustyFae That's why I sell propane and propane accessories. Butane is a bassturd gas. (Let's see if that gets around the censors.)
I first saw those claims around the crazy ice storm from a couple years back
People kept saying "government snow" and it's just like - this is why no one takes real conspiracies seriously.
The logistics of making that happen, if they had faked it, would be unbelievable!
please tell me what a “real conspiracy” is
@@Pablo360able Every private business has competition. Executives meet in private meetings, conspiring to maximize their profit and destroy the competition.
@@lc3853 that’s not a conspiracy, that’s just basic profit motive. one company having confidential plans and strategies is not a conspiracy, even when it becomes insidious.
@@Pablo360able Epstein didn't kill himself.
Another great video. I immediately intuited that the snowball was acting like a sponge with the water as it melted, and the soot was from the actual flame, but hearing you explain it in technical terms really helped me understand exactly what was happening.
Also fun fact: Snow and Ice is a fantastic insulator for keeping in heat. Thats why if you go inside a igloo its so warm.
It's nature's aerogel. Roughly same concept of insulation.
It's 90-95% air and air is the best insulator so of course it's warm in there :) It's nature's aerogel.
Edit: I just saw that other person's comment. Great minds think alike. For all of us, I'd say :)
That's true. While I lived in Michigan. The snow drifts in the winter would keep the house pretty comfortable. But the "fake snow" is a bit extreme. It's not "fake" it's real. HOWEVER it is chemically different from the snow that fell when I was a kid. Then it would start melting the moment it was in your hand, packed snow ball or loose. That was before they started (and you CAN look this up) Atmospheric Aerosol Injections just before I was born. After 10 years of it, the snow started to become more resilient l, melted slower and started behaving almost like it does now. Accept now its insane.. You couldn't bring it indoors, into a warm environment without it starting to melt right away. Now it lasts for quite a while. So again "fake" is to harsh. It's chemically saturated by stuff that didn't exist in the atmosphere untill man put it there.
@@kyokoyumi Also why it doesn't drip, all of the water that would've melted off just fills those air pockets.
The fact that this video even had to be done is more amazing...
Cause apparently enough people either skipped school or never seen snow in their life to try and call it fake...
to be fair for most southeast asian countries, they will never experience snow, but i believe this is started with the so called chinese ice cream where someone tries to melt the ice cream but it melts kinda like plastic although it is still real ice.
@@siontheodorus1501 Turkish ice cream also doesn't melt. But no one calls it toxic or fake. Because turkey is (currently) not an enemy of the US.
@@siontheodorus1501
If you remember or google melamine milk scandal, you'll see, it's not far fetched to think about plastic in chinese milk ice.
That hasn't to do with China slowly becoming an enemy for the western world in the first place, that's honestly earned suspicion.
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@I'm Bored
I'd guess, that, if one skipped school and therefore have no idea of the difference in energy level between 0°C ice and 0°C water, one just might suspect yet another conspiracy going on. Always the next best explanation 😆
@@bigsmall246 What a bizarre comment! Is this the usual Turkish victimhood mentality?
My colleague once had a heated argument with his ex-wife about whether the moistures outside an unopened can of cold soda were from outside or inside of the can. She insisted that from what she learned from her lecturer, the moistures came from inside the can. When he knew that the argument was going nowhere, he stopped. But no wonder the marriage didn't last.
I live in central New York. I really hate the fake lake effect snow. I have to put on my fake cold weather clothes and go out and get my fake shovel and move the fake snow so I can get in my fake car and go to the fake doctors.
So don't live in fake central New York. Live in one of the fake suburbs.
Thats an awful lot of fake for someone in real new york
You should have also put a flame to it that doesn't create soot, like a small butane torch. If it's still blackened then I would suspect that it's impurities dust particles collected while falling or from the ground even.
Butane torches still produce soot if there's not enough oxygen being supplied to the flame.
@@AnErrantPhoton I know common lighters don't use 'pure' butane - I may be wrong, but isn't pure butane actually blue? Would using pure butane prevent the soot?
@@dillis2188 Butane is colorless. The color of the flame depends upon how much oxygen it gets, but with a butane torch that provides a good admixture of air, the flame is almost all blue, and actually rather hard to see in normal lighting. (I know this because we have some at work. Too bad the igniters aren't as well-designed as the aerators -- seem to fail regularly after being used for a few days.)
@@dillis2188: For no soot at all, you would need to use a flammable gas containing no carbon molecules, for example pure hydrogen. Butane is C4H10.
I have a family member who halfway believed in the "snow is fake" thing. I wish I could say I was surprised but I had to explain to him last year that big things have strong gravity and the bigger the thing is the stronger the gravity, so I'm really not shocked.
I never would have expected it to behave that way, especially not dripping. I honestly thought you were going to reveal that it was some weird other material that looks like snow!
I'm curious if this behavior depends on how packed the snowball is? I have no snow around me, or I'd totally be outside burning it right now.
A heavily compacted snowball would absorb less water before dripping.
A ball of refrozen snow would drip almost immediately.
Refrozen snow is what I call snow that has been melted to full soaking, then frozen again.
There are some instances ice melts fast. Hold an ice cube under hot water, and it melts pretty quickly, about 20 seconds on small stream
That's because hot water contains a lot of heat energy... all of the energy that went in to heating the water in the first place.
That has more to do with how water interacts with itself tho, right?
Yes, this is actually a really neat observation. It takes a lot of energy to melt ice, and to raise the temperature of water, and to evaporate water. Consequently, water contains a lot of energy relative to ice, and hot water contains a lot of energy relative to cooler water, and steam contains an even larger amount of energy relative to cool water. So hot water is a much better way to melt ice than using a flame. In fact, hot water is a good way to heat lots of things quite quickly and thoroughly. Lots of central heating systems, for example, use hot water for exactly this reason: the hot water carries a lot of energy from the heating unit, and then has lots of energy it can release into the cold room. Another advantage of hot water over a flame is that the hot water can wrap itself right round the thing to be heated, and deliver heat all round all the time, whereas a flame can only touch a small area at once. This is also why scalds can be a lot more damaging to your skin than flame burns (although preferably try to avoid either...!). And why steam in more than small quantities can easily be deadly.
The key difference between ice and snow is the air pockets inside that totally changes its physical properties (better insulation, doesn't drip immediately, soft, etc)
snow not ice
Thank you for providing such a simple yet logical test for this phenomenon.
The Action Lab: Why do some people say snow is fake?
Me: Because some people are conspiracy-prone dim bulbs.
truer words have never been typed
or because they are dumb enough to believe other anti-scientific BS like the flat earth.
It's just like all the "5G will kill us all" crap.
*"Guys, I guess water is fake."*
I think world is fake
Humans are 60% water.
HuMAnS aRe 60% FAkE. 🤯😱😯
@@Bharat_gyan_anubhooti It has to be. This madness cannot be real!
but toxic dihydrogen monoxide is mixing with our waters
What you are demonstrating is the answer to why oceans are not rising at either pole. The snow is melting but it is evaporating directly to water vapor. This is why our great rivers are drying up and we are experiencing flooding in unusual areas.
Despite already knowing these things, that was so fascinating!
Always amazing content on this awesome channel.
i immediately noticed soot but didnt realise it could melt and wick into itself
The process by which some solid substances directly into the vapour state without passing through the intermediate liquid state is called sublimation. The solid obtained on cooling the vapour is called sublimate and the vapour formed is called sublime.
I like that you approach the topic in a way that doesn't attack or push away somebody who fell into a misconception. Poor education is a huge problem, and we often just teach answers instead of the building blocks to understand WHY the answers are correct. If somebody has a misconception, it's important to teach them in a way that allows them to safely learn without being shamed. Being poorly educated is rarely a choice. Thank you for the really great work you do with The Action Lab!
It's kinda crazy (and sad) that you have to prove snow ^^
I had no idea there were people out there that think snow is fake. I'm in *Florida* and I've never heard anything so ridiculous.
Thanks for the video. I never thought snow could be fake. I now know better.
Feels like this video should have been uploaded on April 1st
Soot soot soot from the lighter, I knew this was the deal years ago when some people in like California said they had fake snow and showed soot coming from the lighter forming on the snow 🤦♂️
They showed it on Mythbusters
Q: Why do people say snow is fake?
A: They're stupid.
That, or:
- they don't go outside enough
- they weren't paying attention in school
- their parents never taught them common knowledge/sense
- they never tested anything in practice
- they lack curiosity about the world
- they're most likely an NPC that blindly follow any trends
- they're gullible
- they're ignorant
- -they actually know, but someone is pointing a gun at them-
- they actually know, but are trolling
I live in Sweden, where we can have a lot of snow. One evening when it was dark out, I sprayed a snowman that I had made that was standing outside the kitchen window with a whole can of starting fluid for the car, and then I set the snowman on fire. I rushed in and asked the kids if snow was flammable, to which they replied yes with wide eyes.
The snowman burned for a couple of minutes, but it didn't get ruined. You might get a thin crust of ice on top of the snow, but that's all. Any soot or discoloration is a leftover from the combustibles. Try to find a combustible liquid spray that isn't too clean to produce yellow flames. You don't want something that burns with a blue, almost invisible flame because there's nothing it can incinerate into yellow flames from the snow.
You can never adequately prove that snow is not fake to everyone's satisfaction. Hopefully, those people will never use the internet to find each other, organize and start a movement.
The pandemic brought to the fore countless unfounded beliefs.
@@WhtetstoneFlunky People have never stopped being stupid (not all, but most).
@@WhtetstoneFlunky Not the pandemic, the internet. Remember flat earthers, QAnon, and Creationists? I think they all predate 2019.
@@GilesBathgate Yes, but barely, the biggest wave of them started around 2016. Of course there were people like this before, but it was just a small group of people luckily.
@@meloney I would argue, if not hope, that their numbers are still as small as they were before. The only problem is that these people now have a place where their voices can be heard unfiltered, and in some sects of the internet, the only voice that can be heard unfiltered. People better at wording than me have made these explanations about internet echo chambers that lead to such indescribable ignorance.
as someone who lives in one of the snowiest areas of the country...snow is not fake and people are just getting dumber. The more access to information we have, the less the average person seems to be able to critically think. it's ridiculous.
Hell in Kashmir people aren't this dumb to think snow there is fake
What u said is not even a joke anymore, social media and internet is literally dumbing people
People aren't getting dumber, we are being lied too more and more.
The removal of Dislikes on RUclips makes verification infinitely harder especially if they turn off comments.
It is all about cluttering information and causing infighting using us all as scapegoats so we can't focus on the real problems. With enough lies and limiting verification tools you gain control of people by creating ignorance.
Another great example is COPPA doesn't protect children, since data is gathered before someone verifies their age and verification isn't needed this only "protects" accounts marked as for children which is great for bad people. Since there is less data being gathered/sent from kids relative to their position you actually leave a trail for the people who would hurt kids. By hiding one path but leaving the rest revealed you show the path less traveled.
Advertisements can still be directed at the "child" group as we've seen adults like some of that media. So those adults are used as scapegoats and why the message "Animation is for kids" was so important. This gives anyone abusing the system COPPA created an way to present data showing it isn't just for kids ultimately letting them bypass COPPA.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 many people are dumb. They're just being recognized now after they realized that they're not the only ones dumb. but yeah, you are right.
This is largely the reason why snow shelters, quinzees, igloos, etc. don't melt when you light a fire inside them. In fact doing so actually strengthens them, as the little bit that does melt gets wicked up, where it re-freezes and hardens.
Snow is real, you just have to have an attention span longer than 5 minutes to notice how it melts lol.
There are people who think snow is fake?
Not if they watch Action Lab.
Also of note, snow is very dirty. Its filled with dust and particulates that got trapped in the frozen water, so it wouldn't be out of the question for it to catch on fire and burn like a candle if the particulate material happens to be high enough in concentration and flammable.
Tbf, I've never heard anyone say snow was fake. Not even a random Facebook group of moms💀
Those snow conspiracy nuts didn't have a SNOWBALLS chance!!
Where I live, our snow does sublime, only during heavy winter with direct sun. it does real melting and gets slushy in spring and on hot days.
I'd be interested to see lab results on some snow. I'm not arguing that it's fake, obviously. But I wonder what all contamination is in it. You might start a series where you test everyday things. Keep people honest, ya know?
I didn't know this about snow 😱
I love in New Zealand so I have never seen snow.
Isnt there mountains in new zealand where it snows?
@@samuelpaquin7160 yes, but at the bottom of the south island. I live in the north island XD
@@tibble_studios As a kid, snow is the absolute greatest thing ever. It's a free toy that falls out of the sky. Then you grow up, get a driving license and suddenly it turns into the biggest pain in the ass ever. I live in SW Ontario where the winters have been getting milder and milder... on one hand, we know global warming is bad, but on the other hand....
I’m glad this isn’t anything concerning after all. I feel silly for believing it at all now, but I honestly thought it was connected to the chemical spill in Ohio, and the only video I saw was theorizing the same. I’ve been so paranoid about it all, I was willing to believe anything; didn’t seem so far-fetched to me that some chemicals could have bonded with the water and messed with the subsequent snow. Again, glad to learn it’s totally normal now. Very interesting!
Is this really making the rounds again, I remember this from years ago lol
Perhaps stupidity is cyclic.
yep, just like the flat earth and other anti-scientific BS, this nonsense will keep making the rounds, because humans are very good at stupid. like my mother used to say, idiots will never go extinct.
"Subliming"? I believe the word you're looking for is "sublimating."
EDIT: HOLY CRAP the official chemistry word is "sublime" and "subliming." Sublimate is another word for it.
I respect a man who can admit his mistake.
Naw.... U were correct prior to editing.... You simply brought another Mandela effect. I was listining to Sublime the same time I was studying this in science. They were never any homonymic relationship.
EDIT: when did heternyms become a thing? 0_o?
@@veno8mm Heteronyms have been a thing for ages.
the gov are tryna kill us all but i dont think they tryna replace the snow with fake snow smh XD
Cool!
I know some people are attracted to the idea of conspiracies but boy this one is a DOOZY. It boggles the mind to imagine what could possibly be the motive for creating "fake snow" or how any entity could have the resources to do it.
Black color comes from soot, gas can not burn properly because of low tempeature of ice itself. And ice itself can sublimate instead of melt. Snowball while ''dry'' is ''spoongy'' and can absorb water that has melted from the ice, that's why volume decreases. Sorry for my poor english. :(
counld't the blackening also be attributed to the fact that most rain drops and by extension snowflakes form around particles that burn up when the melted water is sucked into the snowball?
I can't believe I sat here and actually watched this, while trying to understand how so many people couldn't understand this.
You should do a follow up video of how you can grab a metal pot on the stove before the water starts boiling, and really blow people's minds
Just a few days ago, it snowed the same situation as this. At first, I questioned why it was burning the way it was, but then I ran into the internet, which revealed that the snow changes “flammability” based on the climate. If the snow melts immediately after being placed on a flame, you live in a clean and clear climate, but if your snow burns, then the surrounding areas oxygen quality could possibly be polluted is affecting the snow. Sometimes the snow will even help the air quality!
The more you know.
I live In Finland and I approve this.
I don't know if it's weird or not but usually when I'm out smoking cigarette I actually "burn" snow with my lighter.
This is exactly what happens and I believe snow is not fake...
snow is an insulator... its just evaporating and sublimating, snow is ice, aka expanded water, so the melted variant takes less space.
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"it seems the snow is not melting at all"
*proceeds to drip*
I had to melt snow for water when my incoming piper froze. Found out snow is mostly air. This is especially true if it's well below freezing. I have also seen heavy, waterlogged snow at slightly above freezing take down power lines and cause people's roofs to collapse.
As a Canadian that lives in the stuff pretty much all year I can tell you that snow is not fake
Perhaps it has something due to dry ice particles used to seed clouds. At least 7 states in the west are regularly seeding clouds. Maybe do a comparison between shaved ice & shaved dry ice
Well I never thought of snow absorbing itself or soot blackening the snow. This was cool
To propose that the government is involved in something, you should also think about what incentive they would have to interfere with something
Sometimes I question the mental gymnastics people do to come up with shit like the snow being fake and wholeheartedly believing that.
I wish I was that braindead
Very inspiring video. I figured it'd be sublimation and the blackening the result of impurities in the snow being burned. It was nice to see how some easy to do experiments proved those ideas wrong.
This is also a good way to demostrate to people why they shouldn't eat snow as a mean of hydration in emergency situations.
If a flame takes that much to melt a snowball imagine how hard it will be for your body to do the same.
It's because people don't realize butane leaves soot when burning and because of molecular cohesion the water binds to the other snow instead of dripping.
I actually didnt know this. At first I thought that the water was evaporating so fast because the ice is so cold that when you put heat up to it it makes it evaporate quicker instead of the water actually going into the snowball. I'm glad that I learned something new!
at the beginning of this video I hadn't yet read the description and didn't know anything about this channel, so I was thinking, "Please, please, please explain this to them." because I knew what was happening. I almost lost hope for humanity for about 30 seconds there lol.
I'm glad I was able to come to the correct conclusions on what going on in the first 10 seconds of this video.
Try this: take a bowl of water and ice in it it doesn't melt because the heat given is converted to laten heat first and when it exceeds 0°C the heat given is enough to change the state of ice it is just the magic of physics.
I live near the equator, I have only seen snow in person once in a really high snowy peak. So for me yes Snow is a strange concept, as a kid maybe I did think it was unreal, something I would only see on Christmas movies.
Snow in water and air mixed. And the ratio can vary depending on the temperature.
So what I'm hearing is... Sans' fried snow could actually be not a scam!
...if you ever got enough to afford it.
He wont sell it too you even if you get enough
He increases the price several times but if you have enough he says he can’t sell it anymore because it has sentimental value
Yeah shoutout to the big freeze in texas where I started hearing that and i was in disbelief from how strange it was that people said this
This was something we learned in high school physics. An ice cube will remain at one temperature until it is no longer ice and only then will the temperature start to increase.
Its fascinating how so many people have found so many ways of being angry at somthing thet isn't real. Almost like there isn't real things to be mad att.
Karen: Look at my little angel
The angel: "did the government change all the snow for fake snow?"
Just when I think science can't get any cooler I come across something like this and am completely blown away
i visited some family up in illinois during a particulalry bad winter storm, and the snow was black due to the nearby coal plant firing, snoot is still a thing in some places
whenever I feel stupid I remember there are people out there who think snow is fake
🤣🤣🤣 Like P.T. Barnum said, there's a suckered born every minute.
Your videos are interesting man,I have seen your many videos, keep going 🙌,
My daughter and her family got some snow outside the other day in mt Vernon Illinois and she and all the kids saw it, the snow ball never melted and it was smelling like plastic as they were burning
My teacher was telling me it was because of DDT when they sprayed a bunch of that all over the U.S but that sounds ridiculous because the soot thing makes more sense
This is like new Yorkers with stars lmao. "I've never seen it so therefor it's fake"
Unclear -
So a lighter fire, which have temperature around 2000 degree Celsius cant turn snow into liquid ?
Or
Does snow melts but vaporizes so suddenly when it contacts fire and move to the cavity inside the snow similar to what we saw on pan , hence weight remains the same ?
It all depends on the water content of the snow, if the content is high then there will be a lot of water, but if the content is low, then it will look as if it is not doing anything
The flame is hot enough that the water evaporates or wicks up and the blackening is unconsumed butane residue from the lighter.
This is a new one for me,are flat earthers the same ones claiming fake snow ? Either way,I love those type of people, they make me look like an Einstein