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Flint igniting a fire (i.minus.com)

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[–]Coolhand2120 9 points10 points ago

I think your file size is is just fine. The higher the quality the better IMO. This is going my personal collection!

[–]yoshizze 3 points4 points ago

this was made by the slow-mo guys. http://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys

[–]dudeitscoke 1 point2 points ago

yeah, and I didn't know "Headlight Fluid" was flammable

[–]FeemTheClown 1 point2 points ago

And what time is it in space?

[–]Insidius1 0 points1 point ago

Time to make dicks with soundwaves

[–]prannisment 1 point2 points ago

Friend, this is a 36 MB gif. While it is awesome, I think you should have considered culling out the framerate and lowering color fidelity to lower the file size.

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[–]prannisment -3 points-2 points ago

I've never seen anything as big as 36mb on r/gifs. Really, it's not necessary for anything to be that big.

[–]kzanzi -3 points-2 points ago

Agreed. I could've gotten my Master's in the amount of time it took that to load.

[–]hooly 2 points3 points ago

thats not flint, its firesteel

[–]nickadd 0 points1 point ago

Thomas the Train. Am I the only one?

[–]hassoun6 0 points1 point ago

The first few seconds play smoothly, but it gets slower as i watch.

I would appreciate the link to the source video.

[–]Bearmaster9013 0 points1 point ago

My computer took a massive shit trying to load that gif º___º

[–]Byrkmire 1 point2 points ago

Someone explain to be how it makes dem sparkles?

[–]marulono 2 points3 points ago

I have that same firestarter, its basically one solid piece of magnesium. When you strike it with an edged piece of metal it shaves off little pieces of the magnesium while igniting it at the same time because of friction. So those sparks are essentially bits of molten metal.

[–]Byrkmire 0 points1 point ago

OH! That's cool!

[–]clee_clee 0 points1 point ago

I just spent my entire lunch break waiting for that gif to load.

[–]GargoyleSparkles 0 points1 point ago

This makes me love my T3 connection.

[–]liquidxlax 0 points1 point ago

someone should add the carl Sagan mind blown gif faded in the back

[–]douchebag420 -2 points-1 points ago

Doesn't even look real!

[–]Ulysses1978 0 points1 point ago

You need more boy scout training

[–]yetistyle -3 points-2 points ago

Similar, but not quite: http://i.imgur.com/UmpOi.gif

[–]crank1000 0 points1 point ago

I honestly thought it started fading into this gif for a second. I was disappointed.

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