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would happen if a tornado landed on a campfire?

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I'm pretty sure for a fire tornado to occur it'd have to land on or cause a pretty big fire.
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Well I feel like in most cases the tornado would just put out the fire. I mean, yes a fire needs oxygen to keep burning and a tornado is probably more then enough to keep a fire going, but wouldn't it be blowing hard enough to put the fire out?

In poopnoodle's video we can see that apparently they exist, but that was a rather small fire tornado. In my head I picture a giant cyclone of fire when I think "fire tornado" but who knows. I suppose if a huge tornado just so happened to pass over a raging nuclear fire the results would be a little more dramatic.

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If it was a campfire, the tornado would most likely snuff it out. Perhaps a more interesting question would be what would happen if a tornado formed during those wildfires that pop up during the summer...

I would say something like "Fire tornado FTW" but then I remembered how much the Pokemon equivalent (Fire Spin) sucks.

Though the "tornado+wildfire" scenario might result in something that resembles the much more awesome Magma Storm...

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I guess it would probably depend on how small the tornado is, and how much dry oxygen is in it, as in lacking other gases..... :o

It snuffs out because it spreads the "firegas" like butter, distributing the energy, and it snuffs out because oxygen and hydrogen make water, which absorbs more energy somehow..... :o

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Wow, a fire tornado sounds awesome. If it was one of those mini-tornadoes that are reaaaaally small, then that would scatter the leaves into the fire, then spread them about causing more fires. If it were a windy day, too, then it could gain speed and a full scale fire tornado could occur, imo, at least, due to ~spreading leaves~ or something!

Oh God, what if there was some sort of fire tsunami (even though water+fire don't mix, but if there was oil there or something, causing the fire to not die out) and woww, that's awesome to imagine. XD Bad, but awesome.

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If a fire “tornado” did start somewhere, then I guess somebody could make some kind of contraption to intercept it and absorb it's energy while putting it out.

On a similar subject, how could one work with volcanoes? They are basically fire, earth, and liquid-like, at least until the explode.

I wonder if any cold, snowy areas have ever had a volcano erupt? And if not, maybe the ice slowly melted?

“Elements” are fun to think about, especially when applied to nature's puzzles. But it's only fun until something really happens, then it's serious. :s

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On basically the same natural disaster subject, I wonder what altitude planes should really be flying at. If you flew over a cold area that had a cloud above it, the currents the plane(s) could make might cause could moisture to become even colder, and since they would be pulled together moisture might stick together like ice cubes or smaller ice pieces.

But if you flew above the clouds, the cloud might go upward from nature's air current, like if it was above a vent. For example, a volcano.

But... If you flew under a cold cloud it might drop ice blocks right on you, and if they missed it could drop right on life on the ground, or maybe natural planes, such as birds.

And if a plane got hit by lightning, it might somehow ruin the circuitry, making next to impossible to land. Maybe planes should fly above those thunderclouds, they are most likely to ionize downward as the moisture and gases are brought closer together because of gravity. But if it did ionize upward because of the currents a plane caused, then hopefully the rubber landing gear would be thick enough to absorb it.

However, since lightning travels through thickest air around it, disasters could still happen. I wonder what other “natural” disasters could be caused just by human errors. Perhaps all the planes and choppers flying up in planes of air actually make hurricanes even faster.

I think of solutions to other ones later, but for now, I'll just leave this right here....

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And I wonder..... if humans kept killing insects, like ants, for example, I wonder if they would eventually find better ways to survive. And if they couldn't avoid death, maybe they would try to stop death from happening another way, like....... IDK, digging many many tunnels under houses, until the foundations buckled under their own weight.

I think it could happen. :o

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