We have cars for earth, boats for water and planes for air. Nothing for fire. Not that I want to ride on fire.
Dang!
Dang indeed. That is crazy. Kudos to those firefighters!
Any pics of the outside of these trucks?
ETA: I found some. I guess theyre called brush trucks. Pretty much a BIG truck with firefighting accessories. How do the tires not melt? https://unruhfire.com/brush-trucks/
Aren’t rockets vehicles that ride on fire (that they create themselves)?
By that logic, anything that has an engine rides on fire
Ok but the return capsule kinda rides on fire when it re-enters the atmosphere
The fire is at the vehicle’s boundary for a rocket, making the rocket a vehicle that rides on fire.
Sooo steam engines ride on water?
Atmosphere re-entry capsules
And the Space Shuttle! (RIP)
We have rockets.
Hot air balloons
Came her to say this. Literally riding on the hot air from a big fire.
Firetruck
We all know those create fire, silly.
Only if you are Ray Bradbury.
So solid, liquid, gas, and missing plasma. You just need to have a really big bang and any of the other vehicles will do
I have a vehicle that is powered by fire, does that count?
Solar sails are kind of like that
We do call it solar wind, though.
firetrucks?
ICE. We carry fire with us no matter where we go.
Hot air balloon is probably your best bet for doing this
I’d say this one. It catches the product of fire and rides on it
Earth, water, air all have density. Meaning we can create a vehicle that can be lower destiny than the (Earth, water, air) our vehicle is riding in.
Fire doesn’t have density. So we can’t make a vehicle lighter than fire as fire has no density to begin with.
A rocket you say? Doesn’t qualify. The rocket (when in the atmosphere) is providing lots of expanding gasses which creates a difference in air pressure pushing the vehicle forward. The rocket (when in the vacuum of space) is providing lots of expanding gasses at high velocities that we throw out of one side of the rocket causing the rocket to be thrown equally and oppositely the other direction. We have lots of engine in space which done have fire at all (nitrogen cold gas thrusters come to mind).
While fire itself may not have mass or density, the materials involved in the fire (fuel and oxygen) do have density.
In the context of a rocket engine, the combustion process involves the ejection of high-speed exhaust gases, which have mass and therefore contribute to the overall density of the vehicle.
We’re in agreement on the physics of rocket propulsion. However, “fire” is essentially defined as a chemical oxidation reaction. The reaction itself doesn’t have mass. While fuel and oxidizer undergo the oxidation reaction, it isn’t the reaction itself providing the propulsion, its the mass and velocity of the combustion products.
This is why the “natural element” definition is old and out-of-date. Any discussion of “fire” as an element is a philosophical or literary exercise, not a scientific one.
I think you nailed it - fire is not analogous to earth, wind, and water (and heart), so the premise of the post is confounded.
I tried to imagine a vehicle for travelling on a surface of Heart, then decided I don’t want to.
Ghost Rider enters the room.
Fill a open trailer with wood and light it. Drive wherever. Dont drive too slow or it may catch up to you.
