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Reply With QuoteHow does fire burn in zero G? How does the fuel feed? I have never thought of these things before but now I am curious.
The Olympic Flame is going to leave Earth as part of the traditional relay before the 2014 Winter Games in the Russian city of Sochi.
"Russia was the first country 50 years ago to send a man into outer space,” Alexander Zhukov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, told the RIA-Novosti news agency. “Now we have the chance to be the first nation to send the Olympic Flame to outer space, and we are proud of that."
No less than 14,000 torchbearers will take part in the 120-day-long relay, which will see the Olympic Flame covering 28,000 kilometers and nine time zones.
The sacred fire will also be brought to the highest mountain in Europe, Mount Elbrus, as well as to the bottom of the deepest freshwater lake in the world, Lake Baikal.
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Gotta love these Russians. Hope no Vodka on that ship.
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How does fire burn in zero G? How does the fuel feed? I have never thought of these things before but now I am curious.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
Going off of what gunnut said, how will they get the flame to the bottom of a lake?
Also I was curious about fire in zero gravity, here is what I found, YouTube - ‪Ask Astronaut Greg Chamitoff: Light a Match!‬‏ this one explains what would happen and why
YouTube - ‪Microgravity Combustion‬‏ this one actually shows fire in zero gravity.
Last edited by marx; 13 Jul 11, at 06:59.
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No wonder Russia's broke.
They're spending money on making useless things happen.
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