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Carpentry is a super power. Just about every girlfriend I've had has been very turned on by guys who can build things with their hands; my brother made a (succ
by khafra 16y ago
Carpentry is a super power. Just about every girlfriend I've had has been very turned on by guys who can build things with their hands; my brother made a (successful) engagement ring out of 5 different kinds of Amazonian hardwoods that looked amazing. I think people like _why would agree that learning to create things, regardless of the medium, is so cool that it's like having a super power.
- jarek 16y agoBy this standard, pretty much anything that doesn't involve trivial desk job paper pushing is a super power. Bricklaying? Check. Welding? Check. Mech eng? Check. Digging ditches? Check. Everyone's special, Dash.
- khafra 16y agoI see a fairly natural superpower line with welding and mechanical engineering (alongside machining or some rapid prototyping ability) on one side, and bricklaying, ditch digging, etc. on the other side. Bricklayers and ditch diggers don't often think of something cool and then make it happen with those particular skills.
- jordanb 16y agoI've been learning to weld (using the TIG process) and it does have that cool mixture of being able to produce amazing, strong physical objects and also being Dark Magick for the average person. The TIG process in particular is a mixture of science and art that makes you feel like a wizard when you start getting good at it. Watching a professional bricklayer work is pretty mesmerizing. The really good ones achieve this rhythmic action where they seem to manage to quickly and accurately place and set every brick while taking advantage of inertia of the moving bricks to expend the minimum physical energy possible. I don't think there are any ditchdiggers left in the united states though, only bobcat or backhoe operators.
- chopsueyar 16y agoI've seen robotic welders, but I've yet to see robotic bricklayers.
- bane 16y agoI see a fairly natural superpower line with welding and mechanical engineering (alongside machining or some rapid prototyping ability) For some reason that reminded me of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5uQz_V0sbI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5uQz_V0sbI Watching the complex and beautiful movements of the various parts of the engine, the raw power, the drama, it took superhumans to figure this out, to contain tons of iron and steel, and water, and fire and turn it into something so exquisite and powerful.
- whatusername 16y agoBricklayers have built buildings that have lated longer than the IT industry has existed.
- pjscott 16y agoBricklaying (and construction methods in general) let us build useful, comfortable buildings that protect us from the elements and let us build cities. Agriculture lets us feed our whole population; without modern agriculture we would have mass famine. And while we're on the subject of agriculture, there are some supporting technologies that we shouldn't forget; the Haber-Bosch process, for example, has the power to miraculously convert nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia that we can use as fertilizer, on an industrial scale. Without it, we would starve. We take all this stuff for granted, but damn it, don't these count as super-powers?
- jarek 16y agoYeah. And without organizers and managers the complex system is likely to collapse, and without truck drivers and rail workers food can't get to people choose to live. Don't me wrong - I appreciate the complexity of society as much as the next guy, but there's so many people involved that calling everything necessary for people not to starve "super powers" causes the term to completely wash out. Everyone's special. Which is another way of saying no one is.
- whimsy 16y agoWhoosh.
- fhars 16y agoYeah, but who will then take care of repairing our bicycles?