Comment on It's that time of year when Scotty's brain melts.

• schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Buddy is an alarmist, got called out, doubled down by arguing safety while claiming I need “understand basic thermodynamics”. The most basic thing that was up for discussion was survivability, and more heat gives you the best chance. It’s literally that simple.

  Arguing anything else just shows you are illiterate because it’s about surviving, not it’s end feasibility.

  Plus, having a large warm pot would allow multiple people to take advantage of the radiant heat, instead of one at a time hogging the flames and potentially burning themselves, because as buddy argued. People are stupid. So would they even know how to use a space blanket if people are stupid? See how stupid of an argument that can turn into being and why I didn’t bite?

  But go off mate lmfao.

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve tried this before. The build in the picture is wasteful of energy and unsafe.

    This is cheap to make, can be easily taken down, and if instead of tea candles bigger candles are used it can heat the pot enough to radiate some perceptible heat. It also makes for a good conversation starter.

    But would I place all my bets on this? No, not really. It should be considered a dire last resort, for a very small room, in an extreme situation.

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