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Unrelated but fascinating: I have recently seen a group of people who acquired a 50 lb tungsten cube. At first it seems like a weird thing to spend a few thousa
by IgorPartola 4y ago
Unrelated but fascinating: I have recently seen a group of people who acquired a 50 lb tungsten cube. At first it seems like a weird thing to spend a few thousand dollars to have but then everyone who interacts with it is fascinated by it, even describing the experience as life changing. Example: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7gry3o/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7gry3o/ and https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7gJ3VB/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7gJ3VB/
- wazoox 4y agoBetter not drop this on your foot...
- varispeed 4y agoI bought a tiny Tungsten cube. Even a tiny one feels unreal when you hold it in your hands.
- kube-system 4y agoI probably spent 5 minutes playing around with tungsten welding electrodes when I first bought some. There is something pleasing about the density.
- PragmaticPulp 4y ago> even describing the experience as life changing. Holding unusually dense materials for the first time is trippy in that it breaks your expectations of how things should feel. But describing it as life changing is just influencers being influencers. Exaggerating everything into hyperbole is part of the job when you’re angling for more views on TikTok.
- coffeebeqn 4y agoHaha exactly. I have a 1oz gold coin 9999 fine and me and the few people who held it had the same reaction. Whoa that’s heavier than I expected! Anyway as I was saying… Still waiting for someone to have a religious experience with it
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y agoIt is life changing if you drop it on your foot.
- DubiousPusher 4y agoI think it's so interesting for people because so much of our concept of reality and how the world works is down to our experience. Then you encounter something contrary to that experience and it kind of forces you to realize, evem for just a minute that your understanding is largely a connecting of the dots of your own limited sampling of a much larger thing. This video gives me a similar vibe. https://youtu.be/Pp9Yax8UNoM https://youtu.be/Pp9Yax8UNoM
- modzu 4y agodoes this youtuber/tiktoker have their arms up in the air and their eyes popping out of their head and affiliate links below? i have handled tungsten, it's cool, but not dissimilar to handling weights for working out
- sdflhasjd 4y agoCan't quite call it life changing, but I bought a smaller cube as a Christmas present (half joking, half novelty. Dumb shit you buy your brother type stuff.). Well, when it arrived the joke was on me because it was genuinely such an interesting object. I regretted having to give it away. Then for some reason, by the time I got around to buying myself one, they'd become a "cool" thing online and the price exploded. Oh well.
- hammock 4y agoWhy are they all dressed like first graders?
- pxmpxm 4y agoWell that was terrible; they managed to combine unboxing and reaction video genres.