what really gos on at burning man?

Post by **Elderberry** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:54 am

klondike_bar wrote:oh noes! not dust!

is it actually dust, or sand? cuz in toronto, dust is essentially all the little airbourne particles of crap that settle down after aout a week of floating around. (ie bite of kleenex particles, dead skin, etc)

That's actually a good question. It is way too fine to be sand and it coats you like baby powder. But it is just the fine particles of the dried up lake bed.

Only one year was the wind so strong that the dust actually hurt when it hit my skin.

Just like most other things on the playa, you really have to experience it to understand it.

JK

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:40 pm

Think of dirty drywall dust, a strong alkaline powder, as the wind blows the finest dust airborne the ground is scoured leaving larger partials and stones , when the wind gets really strong the heaver partials get picked up. Walking in a dust storm is like being in a heavy fog, itâ€™s disorienting, there are no points of reference sounds are misleading,.. itâ€™s a blast I love walking in it. Since the wind can come up at any time it is important to always have your goggles mask and water with you or be prepared to be really miserable or maybe die.

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:40 pm

Zulegoona wrote:Since the wind can come up at any time it is important to always have your goggles mask and water with you or be prepared to be really miserable or maybe die.

Gee, if you die, and you're already in Heaven, where do you go from there?

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:27 pm

Sail Man wrote:
Zulegoona wrote:Since the wind can come up at any time it is important to always have your goggles mask and water with you or be prepared to be really miserable or maybe die.
Gee, if you die, and you're already in Heaven, where do you go from there?

ashes to ashes, dust to dust,.... youâ€™d be destine to blow around the playa till one day after the burn someone washes you out of the crack of their ash in a casino shower......

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:47 pm

Zulegoona wrote:
Sail Man wrote:
Zulegoona wrote:Since the wind can come up at any time it is important to always have your goggles mask and water with you or be prepared to be really miserable or maybe die.
Gee, if you die, and you're already in Heaven, where do you go from there? :?
ashes to ashes, dust to dust,.... youâ€™d be destine to blow around the playa till one day after the burn someone washes you out of the crack of their ash in a casino shower......

I'm an atheist, I odn't go anywhere.

Okay, somedays I'm an agnostic or a pagan. I think that means I just wander around in circles someplace.

Maybe when burners die they become dust ghosts and wander the playa and since ghost don't obey the laws of sequenciality they are our ghosts as well. Maybe those really nasty hits you get from a dust storm are actually our dead selves futily warning us of stupid mistakes to come.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:02 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Maybe those really nasty hits you get from a dust storm are actually our dead selves futily warning us of stupid mistakes to come.

Somehow, to me thatâ€™s simultaneously hilarious and profound, Fishy.

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:44 pm

When I die I'm gonna come back as rust on the Contraption.

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:54 pm

It isn't dust. It's fish poop.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:20 am

a b c d goldfish
l m n o goldfish
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Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:38 am

That's where they get drywall from, as well as talc for baby powder.

Post by **Elderberry** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:01 am

Box Burner wrote:It isn't dust. It's fish poop.

Then where's all the fish?

JK

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:52 pm

Box Burner wrote:It isn't dust. It's fish poop.

Excuse me!

Lambic · Post by **Lambic** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:50 am

The fish evolved to be your current mass of Burners... Notice to extreme amount of water? The caking of mud for moisture? The Goggles?

Fish-People...

This year the truth will come out!

New Theme Camp: CFP! (Congregation of Fish-People_

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:24 am

Hmmm, Steampunk Fish People.

mars · Post by **mars** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:30 pm

Not sand, dust.

But not the kind of dust you're talking about either. It's playa dust, kinda like talcum powder.

klondike_bar · Post by **klondike_bar** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:06 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:That's where they get drywall from,

ok, i think that gives me a better idea then.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:02 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:That's where they get drywall from.

I believe its one of the largest Drywall manufacturing sites in America!

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:08 am

theCryptofishist wrote:Maybe when burners die they become dust ghosts and wander the playa and since ghost don't obey the laws of sequenciality they are our ghosts as well. Maybe those really nasty hits you get from a dust storm are actually our dead selves futily warning us of stupid mistakes to come.

Talk about too little too late! I've been making stupid mistakes my whole life!

Anyway, if I die, I refuse to go anywhere! I am staying right where I am (unless the weather is really nasty, in which case I'll temporarily go somewhere nicer.)

chiefdanfox · Post by **chiefdanfox** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:38 pm

How come ghosts can walk through walls, but they don't fall through the ground? Seems like once they realized they could stick their head through a wall, they'd drop through the floor and oscillate back and forth from one side of the planet to the other for eternity. (it takes about 45 minutes each way, btw)

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:50 pm

chiefdanfox wrote:How come ghosts can walk through walls, but they don't fall through the ground? Seems like once they realized they could stick their head through a wall, they'd drop through the floor and oscillate back and forth from one side of the planet to the other for eternity. (it takes about 45 minutes each way, btw)

How much does a ghost weigh?
I'm having trouble with the math.

chiefdanfox · Post by **chiefdanfox** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:02 pm

gyre wrote:How much does a ghost weigh?
I'm having trouble with the math.

I don't know. Me too. Do they weigh more if they are in ghost clothes? And how come the clothes turn into ghosts? Would I have a little ghost drivers license in my ghost wallet if I died right now? Ghost hair gel? (yes, I am known to wear gel)

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:19 pm

I subscribe to the "Dead Like Me' theory of life after death.

SonOfUgly · Post by **SonOfUgly** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:43 pm

chiefdanfox wrote:How come ghosts can walk through walls, but they don't fall through the ground? Seems like once they realized they could stick their head through a wall, they'd drop through the floor and oscillate back and forth from one side of the planet to the other for eternity. (it takes about 45 minutes each way, btw)

they can fly

fciron · Post by **fciron** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:45 pm

chiefdanfox wrote:
gyre wrote:How much does a ghost weigh?
I'm having trouble with the math.
I don't know. Me too. Do they weigh more if they are in ghost clothes? And how come the clothes turn into ghosts? Would I have a little ghost drivers license in my ghost wallet if I died right now? Ghost hair gel? (yes, I am known to wear gel)

Acceleration due to gravity remains the same not matter the mass of the object. Doesn't matter what the ghost weighs. What would matter is how much resistance the immaterial ghost encounters and what it's terminal velocity is.

Wait. If the can pass through solid matter are they affected by gravity? Why don't they float off through the ceiling instead?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:50 pm

chiefdanfox wrote:How come ghosts can walk through walls, but they don't fall through the ground? Seems like once they realized they could stick their head through a wall, they'd drop through the floor and oscillate back and forth from one side of the planet to the other for eternity. (it takes about 45 minutes each way, btw)

You can't fool me. Ghosts travel much quicker than that.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:19 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
chiefdanfox wrote:How come ghosts can walk through walls, but they don't fall through the ground? Seems like once they realized they could stick their head through a wall, they'd drop through the floor and oscillate back and forth from one side of the planet to the other for eternity. (it takes about 45 minutes each way, btw)
You can't fool me. Ghosts travel much quicker than that.

cause ghosts choose where they go........and, choose not to fall through the floor.........

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:19 am

theCryptofishist wrote:
chiefdanfox wrote:How come ghosts can walk through walls, but they don't fall through the ground? Seems like once they realized they could stick their head through a wall, they'd drop through the floor and oscillate back and forth from one side of the planet to the other for eternity. (it takes about 45 minutes each way, btw)
You can't fool me. Ghosts travel much quicker than that.

How can you tell?

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:46 am

I subscribe to the "Dead Like Me' theory of life after death.

a brilliant show. Mandy Patankin.

another tragic victim of the writers strike after only 2 short seasons.

such a shame.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:13 am

Sail Man wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:
chiefdanfox wrote:How come ghosts can walk through walls, but they don't fall through the ground? Seems like once they realized they could stick their head through a wall, they'd drop through the floor and oscillate back and forth from one side of the planet to the other for eternity. (it takes about 45 minutes each way, btw)
You can't fool me. Ghosts travel much quicker than that.
How can you tell? :?

Careful analysis of the speed records in the Guiness Book of Ghost Records, of course.

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:54 am

theCryptofishist wrote:......
Careful analysis of the speed records in the Guiness Book of Ghost Records, of course.

oooh ooooh ooooh,, can't miss this one.

Was there a GHOST writer??