HS secretary Kristi Noem is having the border wall painted jet black to make it much hotter. Don't you think this is clever?

[frysauce]

I'm amazed nobody thought of this sooner. Lol

[mysteriousNicholas]

I'm not an American, yet wouldn't that dark paint absorb the sun's heat in the heat of summer, and weaken the steel beams? Shrug.

[mysteriousNicholas]

I mean I'm not very bright yet when I think of the sun, in the intense summer type of season, doesn't heat expand metal? I don't know if the sun ever truly melts 🫠 steel but whatever

[frysauce]

Blacksmiths should have thought of that years ago.

[qwerty2469]

It will heat the beams to 140 degrees tops. Not even close to the 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit that steal beams melt at...
You fucking retard.

[RavVid]

It is simple and effective and eco sensitive to boot.

[frysauce]

It helps prevent rust.

[RavVid]

It does. Galv paint would be better for that purpose.

[frysauce]

Yes it would be

[contentious]

It's a common sense move. You have to paint metal structures to extend their life. That's why we paint bridges, cars, etc. to prevent them from rusting out and falling apart. Black paint will help the steel absorb more solar radiation during the day causing it to heat to higher temperatures which are unfavorable to touch by a potential border crosser. Those temperatures on a large piece of steel might take an hour or two to drop after sunset from air cooling. Either-way the structure has to be painted, so you might as well paint it black to get the most bank for your buck.

[contentious]

Additional anti-climb paint is typically black. So you can smear that slippery shit that sticks all over y our skin and clothes and is hard to remove all over it and the border crossers wouldn't know until they touched it and then they would be marked and easier to spot.

[contentious]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7D_X7CTlm8

[contentious]

*bang

[D_Bone_Steak]

I'm just here reading the comments for entertainment purposes. I can't believe so many retards came here with their Dunning-Kruger effected takes just to try and shit on the idea simply because it's another MAGA backed action.

TDS has rotted their fucking brains.

Anyways... I'd really like to have sex with Kristi Noem.

[frysauce]

I didn't mean for this question to be nearly as controversial as it was.
But holy crap, this brought out some real idiots.
Some idiots said that black paint doesn't raise the temperature of the steel. Another idiot said the black paint would melt the steel. The biggest idiot said the black paint will cause global warming. One moron's intelligent post was just that Kristi Noem is a whore.
Can you even imagine an adult being that fucking stupid?
One idiot said that the wall cost too much money, so it needs to be taken down. Wouldn't taking the wall down cost even more money? 😄

And the idiots that said that walls don't work, we're saying that black paint would be stupid because nobody can climb the wall that doesn't work. If people can't climb the wall didn't the wall work?
This is the danger of TDS.

[D_Bone_Steak]

Yeah, I read those comments... the one thinking it would melt the steel was pretty insane and I'd figure that any midwit would reason that dark colors increase the heat. I mean white reflects it and holy shit it's just not obvious to them... as if they skipped all of the most basic of science classes or never watched a youtube video on the ice age or anything at all. I saw a lot of really stupid takes here in response to your question and quickly noticed the dumbest takes usually had that liberal bias...

I mean reasonable takes like rust protection, black makes things hotter... I remember one of the retards claiming it would only get to 14O degrees, and I lived out there... concrete gets 200+. As kids we used to crack eggs on it to watch it cook. People out there make stoves out of those metal trash cans and that's beyond 350 when they do it right.

I'm glad the question blew up like that... it was a heavy dose of confirmation bias I subconsciously have held for a while getting confirmed.

Your question... or at least the responses to it really answered a great deal for me about the TDS people and the usually pro-Trump in comparison to each other. TDS people are not reasonable at all. Not even with the most basic concepts.

On the plus side... one person showed that anti-parkour paint... that got my noggin a joggin. That's a really good idea. Like instead of regular paint, like when roofing or preserving a wooden electrical pole... tar. On metal it will be hot and sticky. I'm unfamiliar with that anti-parkour paint, but that stuff sounds even more brilliant that just paint. Tar also will protect against rust and corrosion. I think I gave that guy a 'like' for that reason.

[frysauce]

The bottom line is these people will say absolutely anything regardless of how retarded it makes them look, because they think it will reflect poorly on Trump.😂😂😂

[AviatorTom]

It shows a unique, and unexpected, understanding of thermodynamics, something one wouldn't think politicians would be aware of.

[frysauce]

Thinking outside the box

[BonzoInBitburg]

I hope this is fake and they are smarter than that. How hot do those geniuses think the black paint will make the fence when the illegals cross the border at 2am? FYI, the overnight temperature in Nogales, Arizona is typically upper 60s.

[frysauce]

Is it a rule that they have to cross at 2:00 a. m? What about all those aerial views of them coming in hoards and crossing when it's broad daylight out? Are they risking breaking the 2:00 a. m. rule?

[BonzoInBitburg]

Everyone knows that its easier to sneak into anywhere under the cover of darkness. Secondly, it isn't hard to figure out that all they have to do is wait until the sun goes down and the fence won't be hot anymore.

[frysauce]

You dodged that bullet.

[exitseven]

Yes, it makes sense. It will look good, will make the wall too hot to climb over and it will prevent rust. A trifecta.

[DrPepper12]

That will just make it easier for illegal migrants to climb over the wall at night In addition to giving them superior dripping power for the gloves that they're bound to use.

It's a stupid PR stunt for stupid people to stupidly believe

[frysauce]

A black wall makes it easier to climb at night. Who knew? What color of wall would make it easier to climb over during the daytime? Maroon? Teal?
You sound like a gifted metallurgist.

[Miristheiss]

As long as they get the full wall erected I don't care what color it is.

[andreasderjuengere]

Seeing that woman, I'd say that the wall already HAS a full erection.

[Staximus]

I went to a car auction in the middle of the afternoon and sat in a white and black car just to see the temperature difference. It was noticeable. Bare metal would get hotter, though. Paint would actually make the surface cooler to the touch

[frysauce]

The only intelligent way to harness the power of the sun, is not with electricity, but with heat. The water bladders mounted on the roof are black for a reason. Black absorbs more heat because it also absorbs more light, and light energy changes into thermal energy which gives off heat.

White refects light, absorbing little to none of it, so it also reflects heat. People in the Middle East figured this out thousands of years ago. But when Kristi Noem points out what everyone should know, the left treats it like a hate crime..

[Staximus]

That's great but bare metal always gets hotter than painted metal in the sun. Take two pieces of the same metal, wire brush or sand one down until it's bare metal. Take the other one and spray paint it black. Leave them out in the sun for a few hours and then see which one burns your hand more smart guy. Guarantee it will be the bare metal

[frysauce]

IAI told me that's true if you paint the metal with the light color. If you paint the metal black, it becomes hotter than bare metal.

[frysauce]

AI...

[Staximus]

That's wrong

[frysauce]

I don't know who's wrong.

[Staximus]

How much scrap metal have you moved around in the sun?

[frysauce]

What difference does it make?

[andreasderjuengere]

There was a wall back then in Germany.

Did it work on the long run?

[seeyounexttuesday]

SO you're saying Mexico is East Germany? We should tear down the wall and absorb it into the US?

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday - Wasn't it a little different? I was there, so let me clarify:
That wall had been made by an oppressive government to separate two groups of people who individually had no quarrels with one another.
When the Eastern population finally had enough, they raised a PEACEEFUL revolution out of their own.
With little delay unification took place - the ''Wall'' (Berlin) was torn down. Some was left as a reminder.
It wasn't an absorbtion.
In ''our'' case it was one nation. In ''your'' case it's two.
... anyhow: this wall, and also the border fortifications were massive, and with military patrolling - authorized to shoot at their own folks if they tried to escape...
Interestingly: the big superpower behind - headed by Mr. Gorbatchev - collapsed as well shortly after.

Side note: unlike Mr. Merz, my own German background allows me to see the specific differences between one place on the planet, and one other :P
So should you, mate.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Well Einstein, a country is allowed to protect its borders just like you’re allowed to put a lock on the front door of your house.

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday / Thanks, Batman. I actually only said that I doubt that a 'wall' works :)

[frysauce]

The left said for years that walls don't work. Now they're saying that the black paint isn't needed because it's impossible to climb over the wall that doesn't work. It's hard to keep up.

[andreasderjuengere]

True: if that wall would work the way it's meant to... why are there deportations, still?

[frysauce]

Because Joe Biden rolled out the red carpet for them.

[seeyounexttuesday]

You brought up Germany for a reason. Why are you being a pussy and backing away from it, now?

[andreasderjuengere]

I feel your pain: here in my hosting country we also have problems with foreigners misbehaving or parasiting. We call them expats, or tourists.

[seeyounexttuesday]

So what was the point of your reply, exactly?

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday - what I said initially. Walls don't work. You had asked.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Neither do door locks but you have one

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday - Far off. My house has no regular door lock. Because I live in a trustful environment. In fact, I haven't even closed my door since years. And that's even where I'm not at all at good terms with my direct neighbour.
You see - what's going wrong in our present world is, that too many people live against each other, and not with each other.
We also fail to choose an environment that is ''positive''. Instead, ''we'' target confrontation. And that's what we get in return.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Ah, that's what's going on? How many of your neighbors do you financially support?

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday / Far off again. Apparently, you are stuck in your own local culture with no visions or energy for anything that's beyond your limited present experiences, or your limited cultural potential.
I won't pity you - it's your choice.
But anyway - I feel happy enough to not be stuck where you are stuck :)
You're of same age as me... what went wrong in YOUR environment?

[seeyounexttuesday]

lol. Nice dodge wrapped up in pseudo-intellectual bullshitting.

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday - I'm ok with it.
Let's see whose ''bullshit'' lasts longer.
By the way - my intellectuality is real. ... Is yours?

[seeyounexttuesday]

I know you're ok with it.

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday - heh heh - of course I'm ok with it. We talk, don't we :)
It's obvious that you and I have different ideas about how to live life. But that does not mean that you are wrong or that I am wrong. I simply say that I'd do things differently from you.

[seeyounexttuesday]

We're talking about the actions of a country, not individuals.

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday A country's actions should reflect its individual population. Sorry - I'm pseudo intellectual again :) / And: yes... both of us again appear to be... bullshitting?

[seeyounexttuesday]

Great. So you and I both live in a country that wants its borders secure.

[andreasderjuengere]

@seeyounexttuesday... Surely. The difference to me - as it looks - is by what methods :)

[seeyounexttuesday]

lol. ok.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I don't think that's the actual reason.

Jumping that wall is too much plus it will most likely have barbed wires at the top and drone surveillance.

[frysauce]

So Trump, Kristi and CNN are lying?

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Wearing gloves will eliminate such case plus that wall is in between 18 and 27 ft high.

Nobody is climbing that wall.

[frysauce]

Getty has 303 images of people scaling the wall and some getting over it. So why are they painting the wall?

[Dennisjf12]

That border wall is a waste of money & should be torn down. Dennis

[frysauce]

Nobody's going to tear it down for free.

[msc545]

All that is needed is a $25 angle grinder to cut through it. This happens a lot, and paintng it black won't matter since nobody climbs over it.

[frysauce]

Getty has 303 pictures of the people climbing the wall and some are getting over it.

[qwerty2469]

Angle grinders can't cut steal beams. Especially when border patrol is shooting you

[Twalli]

She's an idiot. Do you honestly think the reason people cross the wall is because it's not extremely hot to touch?

[frysauce]

It is hot to touch. What are you talking about?

[Twalli]

If it wasn't black before, painting it black won't stop anyone aiming to cross the border.

[frysauce]

You shouldn't call other people an idiot.

[seeyounexttuesday]

We should have the illegals paint it just before they're launched back over.

[frysauce]

And save a fortune.

[FreyaRed]

Corrosion prevention

[Dargil]

It looks better to onlookers.

[Pohjolan]

Won't affect power tools.

[frysauce]

Do you have any idea why they chose black? I'll give you a hint: it had nothing to do with power tools.

[Pohjolan]

@frysauce
Look one can just cut a hole in that and people can just walk through.
This is only going to affect a margin group during specific weather and daylight conditions.
Might as well paint it pink and write on it:
"If you climb you gay."

[frysauce]

It won't withstand a nuclear blast either.

[Pohjolan]

@frysauce
Well you don't get a nuke in the next hardware store but you do get the tools to make a passage in that fence.
Even a cordless edge grinder would suffice.

[frysauce]

Do you understand why they're painting it black?

[Pohjolan]

@frysauce
Mostly for PR I suppose and to protect it from rust.
I mean I do hope that they are using a paint that can be applied straight to rust but I wouldn't be surprised if its just going flake off.

[frysauce]

They're painting it black for the reasons I said. You could have easily found that out but you chose to play the stupid angle with the power tools.

[slatyb]

It's f-ing stupid.

[frysauce]

Why?

[Avicenna]

It is clever.

[frysauce]

I don't like when girls are smarter than me. It doesn't seem right.

[Avicenna]

She’s a particularly clever one.

[yulbsari]

WTAF? Seriously?

[OhMyMan]

Not really.