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Red Adair

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:30 am
by rebbonk
Does anyone else remember Red Adair?

He owned a firefighting company that pioneered an inspired technique for extinguishing burning oil wells by setting off a huge explosion directly above them.

Counterintuitively, the explosion would use up all the available oxygen from around the burning well, and it would go out.

Anyway, if I ever
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found Keir Starmer on fire, I think that would be the technique I'd use to extinguish him.