# What is the opposite of FIRE ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [November 29, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-opposite-of-fire/519379 "2009-11-29T21:30:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-opposite-of-fire/519379/81 "2009-12-11T16:54:51Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > That’s okay. My comments equally apply to the OP. What is the opposite of spaghetti? **Ittehgaps**!Geez people, this is like shooting fish in a barrel!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-opposite-of-fire/519379/82 "2009-12-11T17:07:25Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > **Ittehgaps**!Geez people, this is like shooting fish in a barrel!😃 Okay, pal, what’s the opposite of _ **radar** _? ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-opposite-of-fire/519379/83 "2009-12-11T17:21:44Z")
> [@True Blue Jack](#): > > Okay, pal, what’s the opposite of _ **radar** _? If you don’t know, I’m not going to spoil the puzzle for you!:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-opposite-of-fire/519379/84 "2009-12-13T20:21:51Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > If you don’t know, I’m not going to spoil the puzzle for you!:rolleyes: Oh, I know, all right. I just wanted to see if you knew! gnignaR dnA noitceteD dioAR 😛 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-opposite-of-fire/519379/85 "2009-12-14T04:31:13Z")
> [@enigmatic](#): > > Now what. How do you get the car up the mountain? because if you are expecting people or animals to haul them up there you need to consider the amount of energy that will be used in producing food for them. You also need to realise that even if the human race devoted every last second of it’s time to hauling cars up mountains it would only be a drop in the ocean compared to previous CO2 release, given the amount of time it takes for a team of people to haul a car up a mountain compared to the time that those same people would have spent (individually) driving the same distance. But on the plus side everyone would be too busy hauling cars to drive anywhere else ;). I think you’re missing the big picture here. Imagine a world where you can drive to work at the top of a hill, briefly emitting exhaust gasses. Then, at the end of your day, you pop the car into Opposite gear, roll down the hill and exhaust gasses are sucked back into the engine and recombined, such that you arrive at your driveway with a full tank of fuel. And once home, you simply poop into another kind of Opposite engine to make your family meal 😉 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-opposite-of-fire/519379/86 "2009-12-14T11:54:10Z")
OK, I think this silliness is now done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-opposite-of-fire/519379.md?page=4)