Corwin Kelly Don't underestimate the stupidity of Government

It's like dumping water to an overfilled lake

Both the US government and the soviet union tested the effects of a nuclear bombs radiation on its own troops the soviet union also used a nuclear bomb to create a hole big enough for a man made lake so stupid yes but probably not the stupidest idea ever.

Pretty dumb indeed!

@@wetdroidedition2549 Government is just as smart or stupid as the people it governs. Only exception is an foreign occupation.

It’s them purple ones you gotta watch out for.

We gotta know what will give us a high. If you don't know what it is then huff it. Y'all try huffing gas fumes, don't recommend.

Macaroni Art thats like, internet racism

Apple User 2 stop filling in shit thats not needing to be filled

@@macaroniart7523 grey lives matter

Emanuel Goldstein I once considered not reading the Bible before bed, this happened almost immediately, luckily there are only a couple more Hell Spawn left.

The Devil was pissed after going to Georgia so he went to Pennsylvania instead.

*Doom Music Starts to Play*

One day you'll get married and sometime later mother-in-law will visit. You'll yearn for flaming pits of hell...

Id assume I was high af

"Should we?" "Why not?"

Not a good idea unless we set it on fire.

It all sounds fishy

Again, that's not what happened.

I read this in Jim Gaffigans voice first read lol. At least by the last sentence.

I know right there's plenty of images regarding Centralia heck there's the footage from a National Geographic documentary made back in 1982 that shows the town during the fire and that could have actually been used as a better source of stock footage for this to be honest

Also Discovery Channel: "Get two women in a photo shoot studio. They're musicians and actors, but they'll act the part."

coco cornflake my dad worked for a guy who owned the coal company that tried to stop it and by time they got through they missed it by 20 feet.

@@jakezark Just 20 feet? They were so close.

No shit

Should have just drilled in and filled with bentonite or flow fill.

Why cant they take the town and push it somewhere else

If it were a chimney it wouldnt supply oxygen. A chimney is an outlet, not an inlet. They started fueling the fire because it would output the gasses at the vents close to it, but the vents further away would then have negative pressure so they would pull air down to the coal. So the ones that the gas comes out of are a chimney yes, but the ones that started having an inward draft would be more like bellows pumping a fire

Couldn’t they make the vents a one way valve to stop any oxygen getting back in the mine?

@@eastjm80 oxygen works like liquid. You open it up without a vaccum leading the air in. Unless you have a 2nd hole which is a vaccum the draws the air out.

right?! im a drooling idiot and even i was grunting at this "air make fire big!"

yes

That's because Centralia was not the inspiration for the game. It only inspired the movie.

What were her thoughts on the whole thing

@@psychoticdaizyproductions569 a little bit warm.

@@Xalimur95 And she was saving a fortune on snow plowing fees.

Bet she never gets a heating bill neither

I’m wondering what’s so “wild” about a bunch of trees where houses used to be?

@@handle-schmandle the houses were still there for a long time. It was fun to explore. Not so much now

Zachury Strawcutter I went there this past summer and it was a lot more boring then I expected. Except for the graffiti highway which was pretty cool

I’ve driven past it. Personally O think it’s awesome to see the plumes of smoke, knowing that they are part of a fire that has been burning for 60 years.

How is an abandoned town “more boring than I expected”? It’s an abandoned town. Tf did you expect.

@@nbwboomstick4067 unfortunately they covered graffiti highway with soil so people would stop going

yeah its almost like the state paid for them to leave..

@@slumbdog5635 To be fair, that would be what it takes for me to leave aswell. Aint got the money to just move and start over.

So I suppose these people should just move from the house they spent their lives paying for just to end up homeless with no compensation all because your town does things like a 3 year old

The fire was never a threat to the entire town. Watch any recent video and tell me where the “danger” is.

Your comment deserves far more likes.

This place only inspired the setting for the first film, the original games it was snow, not ash. They got their shit wrong. But if Pyramid Head walked down main street, that's exactly what would happen lol

@@dickfitzwell1447 they didnt mention either the game or movie specifically. the movie's title is just silent hill sooo technically they are right and they might just be reffering to the movie in the first place , so where are coming up with this acusation from? also silent hill 2 and 3 are basically fire themed. like the other world is tunnels of metal cages and pathways with fire always burning around them. oh and even downpour features the fire other world ...and homecoming. last time i checked the games where in fact inspired by this town, this was being said even before the movie was out. So u got ur shit wrong.

He scared the shit outta me when that movie came out. I was a kid.

Except that one guy who found a gun with three bullets and didn't have the good sense to leave a spooky, foggy, super creepy small town. Not until he took a good look around and cracked the code on that dang old grandfather clock that doesn't work anyway...

Big fire though

i go there all the time! how do you get to the mines??

Abandoned, intact and unmolested places are fun. Bulldozed empty lots with people ripping up & down the roads with buggies is boring.

Use abandon town as a paint ball tournament venue.

Brian Barcus you seem upset. Do you need a hug ?

Until you fall into a sinkhole.

@@AllenHanPR The possibility you state wouldn't be considered boring by most.

Been there many times I grew up am hour away and it's definitely amazing and fun to go to

Yeah.. till the ground collapses and you fall into a pit thats filled with soot fire smoke and ash.. where you spend the last bit of the rest of your life..

@@gunners4129 or one might just die driving to get some milk u can't worry bout everything lol

Exactly! Stupid people with PHDs.

To harness the geothermal energy would be a sensible course of action. The mishandling of Centralia makes it crystal clear that sensibility is beyond the realm of possibility for Pennsylvania.

Your understanding of geothermal is wrong. Lets say year round ground temps ( below frost line obviously)are 60 degrees Fahrenheit. When its 20 degrees you get heat from it. When its 100 degrees you get cooling from it. Burning coal mines are equvalent to a furnace......no cooling abilities. But none the less i get what you mean

There are more places like this on our planet. I doubt they are in the climate change models. But yes completely mismanaged.

DrSparky Piper the coolant line can be placed anywhere relative to the heat in a heat engine. The more relevant issue is the isntability of the system. No good way to set up a tap on the heat.

Didnt u see the video? Soil could open a pit while u at top.

You didn't see smoke coming up from the ground because it's not there!

I know now how a coal mine fire works. Now I don't need you.

joe Domjan sarcasm

We did everything right.

Watzyatho please, go back and watch the series.

That's pretty cool! From what I saw in the video, it seems like the fire is moving. This might be a silly question but are you worried it might move to your town anytime soon since you are so close?

@@kalyda211 I’m also wondering this

​@@Empylol that's what's happening in a town east of Centralia called Girardville. You can still see smoke coming out of the ground there. Not sure if people will have to evacuate but it's a possibility

if you could make energy with just hot air trump would make a pretty good power plant

@@thatjokerperson7062 Damn 🃏 you dumb

@@iwishyouwould1781 how?

@@jerichopascual4416 guess he doesn't like dad jokes. or he is a trumptard. probably both

magnumtrooper17 or because heat is energy........... smh

Meowoofius Great idea!!

costs

I don’t know how they work, but that sounds like quite the meme

It's likely to complex and too unstable to be feasible. Geothermal relies on already present hot water or supplying a hot area with water to return to turbines. However, this is usually done with fractured hot rocks, not an actual fire. The hot areas also need to stay hot, you can't do it if the hot areas change over time

I can walk to a part of it in 5 minutes its close to a lot of people not the best spot to put a giant plant

Well actually, Pennsylvania has a lot of towns nestled in the mountains that are just like Silent Hill anyway, plus we don't have much else going on here so we're keeping it. Silent Hill is officially based on a place in Pennsylvania!

@@nicholassnyder2241 In the games its Maine.

..I.

Is it because I am really sleepy, or does this comment make no sense? What is OP saying?

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono they tried one time to stop it then said "Fuck it. It'll sort itself out"

Agent J Your telling me buying the cheapest parachute isn’t a good idea? But I save so much moneyyyyyy Reeeee 😂

They are also in a video about wind turbines which is equally as inept.

Because that is to smart

@@kyle18934 too*

Because the air is not going in that way. The ground and rock is porous and there's cracks and fissures all over the place. The fire is so hot it's drawing massive amounts of air from everywhere to feed it.

Thunder Muffin I live about a half hour away and all of my friends who come visit me from out of state want me to take them there. It’s like I’m there every other weekend LOL

xxSK1LL10NA1RExx hahahahahahahahahaha

We can see your profile pic, that’s evidence enough you and your boyfriend went their to look at the graffiti

Yea that's why you take a dirt bike. Theres a ton to see

Yea I'll take you for a real tour you can come riding with men lol

D Hawthorne just get up n go one day

I been i live like an hour and 20ish or so away, its pretty cool and a little erie. On graffiti highway i got saw a spot where there was a crack in the road and it was smoking so wild

It's nothing special honestly and you gotta watch out for tweakers up that way. Ho bud.

@@zip-un5tz very true haha

@@zip-un5tz what's a tweaker?

Let me know when the fanfic is done

Yseson _ interesting I’ve never herd of that one please enlighten me

Robert Aegidius oh my b

@Robert Aegidius I'm pretty sure it's a reference to doom and the doomslayer. Called "the slayer" lmao. You know, the guy who closes portals to hell so he can vacation there?

From what I've read, they estimate that it will take about 250 years for that fire to finally burn itself out.

The fire is following the coal seams. It's just spread out away from the epicenter.

Yeah they also have youtube money were they got there KZfaq engineering degrees, to help they world one commit at a time 😂😂

Yes, let's not start a fire in a coal mine. Novel idea!

Hey in 32 years I graduate with a 2.6 gpa and then the world will be my playground sir. And no student loan to payback.

mad monkey Oh, forgive me please sir. Clearly I am amongst my social betters (Bows out of room with grace).

lets just push the town out of harms way, problem solved

Nope all Pennsylvania here. Never go south of the Mason Dixon Line EVER!

They call PA pennsyltucky cause of all the rasisisim and as much as I want to defend PA cause I absolutely love this state it is a very racist state.

@@dereklutz6935 That made absolutely no sense there bud. It was posted in the sense of the old joke, not for some liberal rant.

Worse than Ky.

PA sucks...

Cool?

It's buried under dirt now.

@@s.sestric9929 y?

Until you fall into a sinkhole.

@@AllenHanPR VERY popular spot for off-roading. Nobody has fallen into any holes yet.

Do you mean Radiation Generator, Cancer Maker, and Life Taker?

@@solchapeau6343 Chernobyl?

@@solchapeau6343 Cheryl is after adopted name. So both name are used xD.

Three Mil’ is also my lil’ boy. Accidentally left him down there too!

Editors got bored after they ran out of stock images

Armitage that makes me want to go even more

There’s nothing to see. It’s a tourist trap with little to offer. You can’t even see the steam unless you go in the dead of winter.

Armitage fuck the steam i want to go there for the lack of people and law enforcement

Hayden there tons of ppl and state police harassing ppl now i hear....i have vids when i went...now i hear police are there cracking down

Hayden “Lack of People” Last i was there it was swamped. Dozens of folks walking the old road, 4-wheelers and buggy’s galore. Never been to an ‘abandoned’ town that busy. It sucks now.

That's the problem with this country the government just argues back and forth for ages while problem get worse and more often than not nothing get accomplish, that's why I like Trump gets things done NOW if not damn soon

@@matthewvanderhorst4862 Someday humanity might evolve to the point where people are intelligent enough to wake up to the FACT that governments, and yes even religions which behave like governments are by far the greatest danger to humans. In just the 20th century, big, central planning, all powerful, regulate everything type governments killed/starved to death over 100 million of THEIR OWN PEOPLE plus millions of their enemies. Time to stop the love affair of big governments EVERYWHERE. They behave like the mafia and their "Protection" rackets. They protect you from other governments. What a great scam they are running. Governments are EXACTLY like fire. A useful tool when kept small and under control but ALWAYS dangerous and deadly when allowed to become large and no longer controlled by the very people it is supposed to serve. The founders of the USA understood this and it has taken decades of socialist government schools to remove that message from our collective minds.

Petere Poet oh fuck off stop acting like you are some special intellectual above everyone else. Saying “silly humans” makes you sound like you browse r/incels, it just makes you sound like a big sloppy turd waiting for someone to get trapped in your smelly undersides. Fuck off

@@beans1215 You sure act like a big man,hiding behind your computer screen.

Matthew Vanderhorst Trump Is something( good or bad) he is taking full advantage of the show of our fake system and the people who really pulling the strings are ........ stress that he does things his own way ( he isn’t really for the people but also not the government he is a business man who is using his cooperate skills to his advantage which any CEO or high business person would)

Yea not to smart...

@@ashtxn5735 no, no its not....

There is one in Australia that has been burning for 6000 years. This one has barely even started.

All because some smoker didnt know only he could prevent underground burning coal mines from not throwing that butt out the window 😂😂

@@JeepTrailsandBarbells you're lame af.

They missed their chance to cut it off, this is a different animal now. If you added just water the resulting disturbance in the Thermal Layering will cause a massive steam explosion, you're talking a 1,700 times expansion on volume of water. The resulting explosion could change this fire from Smoldering/Incipient stages to a Growth/fully Involved stages by giving it significantly more Ventiliation. It's fairly sealed at this time ( at least alot more than if it was ripped open by a Steam Explosion) but like they showed you won't seal it off forever, they buckled roads, cracked ground. The Sinkholes caused by the Coal being burnt away and the area collapsing, and the rises in the ground and roads are caused by expansion naturally that's the reason for the physical appearances. Wonder how big this seam is?? I'm trying to appreciate it other than Town sized, but either way that's a hell of a fire to have.

The seam is huge. All the hills and mountains around it are coal country and active mining is still big business. Another thing is the rock has a high sulfur content so dumping water would also create a lot of sulphuric acid.

It has nothing to do with Silent Hill, the idea that SH is based on Centrailia is based on an interview with the movie's director and the team that made the games did not use it as inspiration.

Kind of like Uma Thurman lol

They’re probably trying to run away from that hideous shirt

I've seen far worse eye balls!

Soviets just use a underground nuke explosion to prevent huge gas torch burning 1000 kg a minute of precious natural gas, so after two weeks russians drill a 150 m chaft under gas deposit and plant 2.3 mt explosive in it, resulting shockwave sealed all underground tunnels large enough for gas to escape. One nuke two weeks and place sealed and operational till this day, all radioactive fallout is trapped underground, causing no outside contamination watsoever

Edit i beleve same could work with coal burn as well, shockwave will seal any means for oxigene to reach coal, and fire will just stop, no o2 no fire, simple

@@bastionaudio I am talking about her Alien face

SmartAss Kickass How do you know what an Alien look like ?

@@jackievarughese3945 Well it is not Human LoL

2 1/2 Acres I guess, but you would still have the whole underground coal fire problem to deal with

If you just want to cook meth you could work that into energy savings.

Oh yeah that would end great 😂

Yeah you'll be going for days

Be your last swat

BONG

Yep, just the films were influenced. Not the games despite a lot of people thinking so.

Yes

Yup still on fire

If no action is taken in the future, it's said that the fires may burn for another 200 years.

yes and will most likely burn for 25 years more

Why not put out the fire??? Fire needs oxygen... So locate all entry ways to the mines... And collapse them.. Use dynamite if need be.. Then look for any other spots air getting in and seal them... Also bring in multiple tankers of fire foam... Pump into any openings. This should snuff out the flames by starving of oxygen...... If possible do it all as a coordinated effort all at once. So if there is six mine open shafts collapse all six at same time.

The cemeteries are still there. My grandparents are buried in St. Ignatius.

Why it has to take money to fix problems like this

Fun fact.you are wrong..

I love all of you. No need to fight.

mike sixx mike sixx he didn’t. Wanna know who did say that though? Christophe Gans, the director or SH movie. That were the misconception comes from.

Thank you. I get so tired of the "Oooo Oooo Silent Hill!" idiots, especially those who show up looking for scenes from the movie. Fools.

Matty Jay no joke the towns in central PA are so beautiful…

*The executioner

wardkdouglas 😂 you’re right i live 2 miles away! It was a nice town when i was a kid.

wardkdouglas PEOPLE CAN DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES!!!

People who live next to Disney feel the same yet people still go you live near it so your interest has gone

It does draw a Hell of a lot of people. Not much to see other than the graffiti highway. Very popular spot for off roading. Some enterprising lad had a hot dog truck set up near the cemetery but he got chased away for not having proper permit or some such nonsense.

@@loveunderlaw lmao damn chill dawg, that's just his opinion. No need to yell.

Lmfao 😂