Originally published at: Watch: The sights and sounds of a red-hot iron ingot sinking through a block of ice | Boing Boing
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the concrete block was maybe too much? that ice never had a chance.
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Description says copper, but the headline says iron. and while it is hot, it does not appear hot enough to be glowing in the visible spectrum, so not “red-hot.”
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How much energy was expended to make this video?
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Pretty elaborate way to go ice fishing.
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Slightly awed by people with access to large chunks of really hot and really cold things.
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The first ten seconds (or so) of audio are going to be repurposed for nefarious / horrifying fart videos, is all I’m saying.
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Ice fishing is less a fishing activity and more a screwing around while drinking activity.
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This is the kind of quality content I’ve come to expect from /u/11angryCamelDicks.
A song of fire and ice.
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I totally forgot!!! My brother and I (as youngsters, of course) used to do this with a fork and an ice cube. We’d heat the fork over the gas range. Pretty much the same sound, but much higher pitched.
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Or, as blacksmiths put it, how to melt the slack tub when you forgot to plug in the heater in the winter.
That touches on the comment below. (Power, my friend.)
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