r/interesting • u/More_Impression_4942 • 3d ago

Trying to burn Oreo cookie MISC.

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u/dotancohen 3d ago

Elon should be lining the Starship with those.

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u/RinHW 3d ago

Its ablative cooling, so the cookie does get destroyed in the process. You can see how the flame changes colour when it hits the cookie, that's caused by cookie particles ablating away and absorbing a lot of the heat in doing so.

It is common for rockets to use ablative shields. And i do believe spacex uses this in combination with heat tiles. The last test they did resulted in a rather hot interior, turning the rocket into a brazen bull. So maybe oreos would be an improvement.

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u/clintj1975 3d ago

I want to see what happens if you toss an Oreo from the ISS now. Would it survive reentry?

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u/Ok_Training_24 2d ago

1 million years from now.... how did the earth go extinct... well you see someone accidentally dropped a box of oreos during a spacewalk... and you know how they dont burn up on reentry... well those dozen cookies decimated the earth on impact..... thats why the space authority banned them from going off world so some other race doesnt suffer the same fatešŸ¤£