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Metal melted out of a car (npr.brightspotcdn.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/interestingasfuck

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The shiny puddles look like some low-temp metal melted and oozed out of the car as it burned. I wonder what part(s) melted, and what type of metal it is?

The picture is from a NPR piece about the current Los Angeles wildfires: https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/01/09/g-s1-41784/los-angeles-fire-photos

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Damn, you replied before I did. I was gonna say that it looks like someone is using leaded fuel

Edit: Also, the F does stand for freedom, so "degrees freedom" is correct. But I thought "freedom units" are like when you say how many infant-fevers hot a fire is.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Today was a cold, stiff day with only 3 degrees of freedom

[–] ArtVandelay 9 points 1 week ago

with only 3 degrees of freedom

So almost fully constrained!

[–] Death_Equity 2 points 1 week ago

Units of freedom is a measurement of freedom related to the number of children killed in school shootings.

Freedom units are units of measurement in countries that have been to the moon, analogous to saying metric in referring to a base 10 measurement system that was used to get to the moon.