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How to Make Plastic - DIY
- liuhenry 16y agoCheck out Thomas Thwaite's TED Talk on "How I Built a Toaster from Scratch" He mines ore and creates his own steel, copper, and plastic. It just goes to show how much specialization and trade is required for the simplest of modern technology, and how interconnected our society is. http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toaster_from_scratch.html http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toast...
- Zak 16y agoNo chemicals are involved in transforming the potato into a good plastic replica. Nonsense. A potato is made of chemicals, and the ingredients they list, including vinegar and glycerin are most certainly chemicals. I know they're trying to say that none of the ingredients are very dangerous or hard to come by, but it's just silly to describe a chemical reaction and say the reactants aren't chemicals.
- Groxx 16y agoPhrases like that, and the ever-repeated-in-advertising line of "... and it's all natural, so you know it's safe!" have always bugged me. More-so the natural==safe connection, though. This, in a world that's clearly out to kill us and eat us.
- sliverstorm 16y agoYour reply should always be: "You know what else is natural? Ergot. Arsenic. Anthrax. Malaria. Batrachotoxins (poison dart frogs). Vitamin A (you can O.D.)"
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