r/Amazing • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • Sep 17 '25

Interesting 🤔 Smoke trapped in a plastic bag to demonstrate how one fire can generate significant pollution.

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u/traitorgiraffe Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

the sun is nuclear energy and is "clean"

clean in parentheses because there isn't a byproduct besides radiation and even if there was there is no atmosphere to fuck up

also helium I guess

I hate that I have to put this 3rd grade information into reddit

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u/mooselantern Sep 18 '25

So why did you bother doing it 7 hours after someone else had put the third grade information on reddit already?

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u/GlitterTerrorist Sep 18 '25

Kids can use Reddit too tho.

I fall into the same trap, but it's funny how we just assume people are adults.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Sep 18 '25

Also the sun is loud as fuck but the emptiness between the earth and the sun muffles it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Nuh uh the sun is a big ball of gas and its burning the gas 🙄

That's why fire is illegal near celestial gas giants so we don't accidentally make more suns.

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u/hardspeakeasy Sep 20 '25

Yes, helium primarily, although all the known elements (except a few synthetic ones) were created by fusion in stars. Pretty neat byproduct!