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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (4 children)

But rocks are harder. Metal can bend where rocks would break.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're talking about brittleness and tensile strength, not hardness. Hardness is measured with the Mohs Hardness Scale, and there is significant cross-over between "rocks" and hardened metal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you think any of the stoned motherfuckers in 1971 gave half a shit about this pedantry? Lol

“We don’t make cars from stone like the Flintstones, we make em from metal because it’s tougher” is as far as it goes my man

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah! Might good sir be a fellow Mechanical Engineer?

(no one else considers stuff that break instead of bend to be "harder")

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I‘d argue many people outside of the field are able to grasp it too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But most people don't differentiate between hardness and toughness in day to day language

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's just because it's really hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rock is usually harder though, but steel is more tough. Compared to a lot of other materials steel is still really hard, to be fair. At least that's my understanding, as someone who just googled "hardness vs toughness" lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, my bad. that went completely over my head lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You silly goose

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But metal can also split rock. Or crush it, or pulverize it, or drill it, or etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

But rock beats scissors and scissors are metal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

depends on the "rock" and the "metal" (usually an alloy)