We have vehicles for all types of nature's elements except for fire

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• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We do.

  The vehicles used by bushfire (wildfires in Nth America) fighters are designed to drive through and survive fire.

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  • matto@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dang!

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    • guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dang indeed. That is crazy. Kudos to those firefighters!

      Any pics of the outside of these trucks?

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• NoRodent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aren’t rockets vehicles that ride on fire (that they create themselves)?

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    By that logic, anything that has an engine rides on fire

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    • Rootiest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh but the return capsule kinda rides on fire when it re-enters the atmosphere

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The fire is at the vehicle’s boundary for a rocket, making the rocket a vehicle that rides on fire.

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    • sarchar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sooo steam engines ride on water?

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• NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Atmosphere re-entry capsules

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  • deus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And the Space Shuttle!

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hot air balloons

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  • MrCharles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Came her to say this. Literally riding on the hot air from a big fire.

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• tacotroubles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Firetruck

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We all know those create fire, silly.

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only if you are Ray Bradbury.

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• Donebrach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We have rockets.

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• uservoid1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So solid, liquid, gas, and missing plasma. You just need to have a really big bang and any of the other vehicles will do

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• CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a vehicle that is powered by fire, does thst count?

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  • zorlan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically you can have all the other vehicles for the remaining elements running on fire.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hot air balloon?

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    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, it’s an old Suzuki Samurai. More of a box kite than a hot air balloon.

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• Jaytreeman@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Solar sails are kind of like that

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  • spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We do call it solar wind, though.

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• Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hot air balloon is probably your best bet for doing this

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d say this one. It catches the product of fire and rides on it

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not that I want to ride on fire.

  It’d be pretty bad ass to sail a boat through liquid hot magma.

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  • Amadeus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    a firetruck?

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• YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  firetrucks?

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Earth, water, air all have density. Meaning we can create a vehicle that can be lower destiny than the (Earth, water, air) our vehicle is riding in.

  Fire doesn’t have density. So we can’t make a vehicle lighter than fire as fire has no density to begin with.

  A rocket you say? Doesn’t qualify. The rocket (when in the atmosphere) is providing lots of expanding gasses which creates a difference in air pressure pushing the vehicle forward. The rocket (when in the vacuum of space) is providing lots of expanding gasses at high velocities that we throw out of one side of the rocket causing the rocket to be thrown equally and oppositely the other direction. We have lots of engine in space which done have fire at all (nitrogen cold gas thrusters come to mind).

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  • criitz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While fire itself may not have mass or density, the materials involved in the fire (fuel and oxygen) do have density.

    In the context of a rocket engine, the combustion process involves the ejection of high-speed exhaust gases, which have mass and therefore contribute to the overall density of the vehicle.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We’re in agreement on the physics of rocket propulsion. However, “fire” is essentially defined as a chemical oxidation reaction. The reaction itself doesn’t have mass. While fuel and oxidizer undergo the oxidation reaction, it isn’t the reaction itself providing the propulsion, its the mass and velocity of the combustion products.

      This is why the “natural element” definition is old and out-of-date. Any discussion of “fire” as an element is a philosophical or literary exercise, not a scientific one.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What if the vehicle is made out of fire? 😏

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• FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ICE. We carry fire with us no matter where we go.

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• snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ghost Rider enters the room.

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• dukethorion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fill a open trailer with wood and light it. Drive wherever. Dont drive too slow or it may catch up to you.

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• Kazumara@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds like we need to gene splice minecraft striders into a reality.

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