Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York

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• Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They outlawed chem trails so they had to change tactics.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Damn nobody likes a joke?

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• Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A new rat pope was elected. Image

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Praise Cheesus

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you, much a-brie-ciated.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love how plausible this is

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• leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s where they store the chemtrails before putting them in planes.

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  • MrPoletki@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    video is in reverse, they are actually sucking them out of the air.

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• RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s C.H.U.D.s down there....https://youtu.be/BJckCjZ8Tdw?si=mv2SGgDh…

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wrong answers only:

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  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rat farts.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      New York rat farts, which are genetically distinct from normal rat farts.

      Image

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They smoking dope down there

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Illegal underground gay saunas

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      german techno beats intensify

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  • VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    From the Steamed Clams we’re having. Mmmmmmm, Steamed Clams!

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• RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  New sewer pope

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  • TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s the ancient horrors beyond description, that are buried underneath the city, that are having indigestion.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sewer mutants cooking up some grub.

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• pacology@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not steam. It’s smoke from wood fired pizza ovens for the turtle men that live there. There was a cartoon documentary about them on tv a few years back.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I never thought of them eating artisan pizzas. I always figured they’d get some shitty dominos.

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    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They seem to have the only people willing to deliver to a drainage hole.

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    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They wouldn’t do dominos they’d probably get a variation of Rays famous near them

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ew, gross. They live in a sewer, but they’re not animals.

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• pwalshj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The tubes are there to raise minor steam leaks above street level so they don’t hinder visibility.

  Another interesting underground quirk we have is our pneumatic tube mail system.

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  • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like the term “clogged mail”

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  • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait those pneumatic tube things are real?? I always thought it was like 1960s sci-fi. Like what they thought the future would be like

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those things used to be on every single bank drive-up teller booth in the 80’s and 90’s.

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    • exasperation@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It was the fastest way to get original physical documents from one side/floor of the building to another.

      When I was a kid that was the standard way that banking drive throughs worked, too. You’d drive up to the multi-lane drive through, each station would have a pneumatic tube for handing off cash or checks or receipts between the car and the teller in the window. It pretty much ended when ATMs could start handling cash and checks.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Haha Roosevelt Island trash system go pshew

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What the other comments aren’t mentioning is that, as you’ve probably learned, poops steam. Put a lot of poops under the ground (i.e. sewers) and that steam has to go somewhere, due to various complex thermodynamic principles that are probably beyond the scope of this question.

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  • Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not poop. It’s people running hot water. That hot water needs to go somewhere and that somewhere are the sewers.

    Hot water flowing through the sewers is warmer than the air temps. The air being vented from the sewers is also hot because of the water.

    As the hot air comes into contact with cold air outside of the sewers you see vapor form as the cold air squeezes condensation from the hot air.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Despite the fact that poo steams if it is really cold outside, I have a strong suspicion they did not build a smoke stack to release a cloud of shit-smelling steam in the city.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Based on media set in New York, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With respect, I believe you may have confused New York with Cleveland.

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• verdantbanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Denzel movie used the steam pipes

  www.imdb.com/title/tt0145681

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Bone Collector would be a good punchline to a “yo mama” joke

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• Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s a lot of things under the streets of New York, many of them cause heat. In order to cool them off the heat is vented outside and the warm moist air meets with the cool dry air and condensates into droplets that we see as steam. Same affect as breathing out on a cold day, you’re not creating steam but it looks that way because the warm moist air from your breath is condensing in the cool dry air.

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  • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Could you name one thing that would cause heat under streets? It’s kinda hard to believe tbh

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      en.m.wikipedia.org/…/New_York_City_steam_system#%….

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    • WordBox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Subway brakes.

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    • Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When you take a hot shower where do you think that water is going?

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    • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pipes transferring steam.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ooh. I know this one. Parts of NYC still use a steam heating system that was first designed in the late 1800’s:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/…/New_York_City_steam_system

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  • rothaine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow that’s neat

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    • MrPoletki@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, that’s heat.

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  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you. There’s so many people responding with unhelpful answers.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should tell this guy.

    youtube.com/shorts/_MAXlkWLpfM

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    • anzo@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine having two keyboards just to put your hands in each of them and, like play 4 keys from each… without moving your arms at all…

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• verdantbanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The New York City steam system includes Con Edison’s Steam Operations, a piped steam system which provides steam to large parts of Manhattan. Other smaller systems provide steam to New York University and Columbia University, and many individual buildings in New York City also have their own steam systems. The steam is used to heat and cool buildings and for cleaning and disinfecting. It is the largest such system in the world and has been in operation since 1882.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

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  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow this makes me realise why so many movies set in New York I watched in the 80’s and 90’s often had steam coming up from the ground.

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  • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We have these in Lansing MI too! Part of the Satanic Panic back in the 80s involved kids playing D&D down in parts of the steam tunnels under MSU, which, I’m told, is much harder to do now unfortunately

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    • BoulevardBlvd@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We have these in Lansing MI too! Part of the Satanic Panic back in the 80s involved kids playing D&D down in parts of the steam tunnels under MSU, which, I’m told, is much harder to do now ~unfortunately~ very fortunately since children don’t know how to look out for a superheated steam leak and it was only a matter of time before a child got fucking bisected

      Ftfy

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow, that was quite a read, thanks. Amazing technology

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    • jaxxed@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Whole parts of Eastern Europe still transport Steam for heating.

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    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Amazing for the 1800s

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