The Glass Age
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asasqw (10/23/2015) [-] I always though that the ages of man where defined by what material they used. By all sense shouldn't we be in the titanium or silicone age?
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shadowstepone ONLINE (10/24/2015) [-] Most people refer to this as either the synthetic age or the plastic age, since those are the materials that we're using as the load-bearers for most of our day to day functions.
Titanium and silicone are very useful, but we don't use either of those materials for many things, if any age was the titanium age it was right around ww2 since that was when it was a big mover and shaker of the world, and silicone is not used much, were you talking about silicon? because silicon goes hand in hand with their glass age theory.
Titanium and silicone are very useful, but we don't use either of those materials for many things, if any age was the titanium age it was right around ww2 since that was when it was a big mover and shaker of the world, and silicone is not used much, were you talking about silicon? because silicon goes hand in hand with their glass age theory.
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cloakedone (10/24/2015) [-]
Says right in the video that corning is the company that payed for this "advertisement"
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killerjhtwo (10/24/2015) [-] It depends what you mean.
If it's by what materials they used most frequently, then it can sort of be accurate to define an age that way, however We still use stone.
And copper, and bronze.
Stone and other stone like objects are the most common building materials as are wood.
If I were to say anything about what age we're living in it'd be between Plastic, and steel.
Don't believe me?
I'm sitting in front of a laptop, with a plastic casing containing plastic and steel components, on a wooden desk, supported by steel and sitting on a steel supported computer chair with plastic wheels.
Off to my right is a plastic cup and a plastic mouse and a steel radiator and windows that are contained within a plastic frame with the framework supporting the load of the house above the window made of steel beams.
We use platics and steel ******** .
Silicone and titanium are kinda specialist stuff.
And besides most things that you think are silicone, like diodes and transistors and **** are actually silicon.
Silicone is bascially sand which is a compound. Silicon is the element that has useful properties for electronics in its pure state.
They used bronze because finding copper and tin was easy, and smelting it and working it was easy as well, and was suitable for their needs.
It's the same reason we use steel now. We use it because it's easily available, strong, cheap, easy to work with etc.
If it's by what materials they used most frequently, then it can sort of be accurate to define an age that way, however We still use stone.
And copper, and bronze.
Stone and other stone like objects are the most common building materials as are wood.
If I were to say anything about what age we're living in it'd be between Plastic, and steel.
Don't believe me?
I'm sitting in front of a laptop, with a plastic casing containing plastic and steel components, on a wooden desk, supported by steel and sitting on a steel supported computer chair with plastic wheels.
Off to my right is a plastic cup and a plastic mouse and a steel radiator and windows that are contained within a plastic frame with the framework supporting the load of the house above the window made of steel beams.
We use platics and steel ******** .
Silicone and titanium are kinda specialist stuff.
And besides most things that you think are silicone, like diodes and transistors and **** are actually silicon.
Silicone is bascially sand which is a compound. Silicon is the element that has useful properties for electronics in its pure state.
They used bronze because finding copper and tin was easy, and smelting it and working it was easy as well, and was suitable for their needs.
It's the same reason we use steel now. We use it because it's easily available, strong, cheap, easy to work with etc.
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endlessness (10/24/2015) [-] Ancient Egyptians made glass vessels for holding fluids. A certain ancient italian astronomer used curved glass specifically made for the first European telescope.
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SuttBex (10/24/2015) [-] This was pretty neat but they need some better direction, I think they're both great but it seems like they were told to just read the lines. It left the video feeling really forced, like they were trying to finish so they could get their paycheque and leave.
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ChuckNorrisVsMRT ONLINE (10/24/2015) [-] "Can you picture a world without glass" Can you picture a world without bricks? Are we in the brick age? He makes an otherwise solid point but that was such a ******* weird ass point to try to make.
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Greevon (10/25/2015) [-] I think it makes more sense when you consider that we use it in more important applications than we used to.
Glass in previous eras was something rich people used to show off. "Oooh, look at me, I have a mirror, I'm so fancy. Look at my glass table." And even up to the 1930's it was mostly just something you put in windows.
But now almost every important piece of technology we use has glass as one of the key elements.
Glass in previous eras was something rich people used to show off. "Oooh, look at me, I have a mirror, I'm so fancy. Look at my glass table." And even up to the 1930's it was mostly just something you put in windows.
But now almost every important piece of technology we use has glass as one of the key elements.
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ChuckNorrisVsMRT ONLINE (10/25/2015) [-] So was food and clean drinking water, there are a lot of thing's that used to be status symbols that are not in mass production and there are tons of other fields of science that have advanced as fast as if not relatively faster than glass. Thing's like radar and information storage.
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citruslord ONLINE (10/24/2015) [-] Plastic is softer than glass and much more prone to scratching and fading. It also yellows under UV exposure. Just think of the comparison between your car's windshield, and headlights. Have you ever seen a windshield fog the same way headlights do?
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funnyhat (10/24/2015) [-]
Wow! It's almost like altering a compound's atomic structure alters its properties!
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anon (10/25/2015) [-]
You don't alter a compound's atomic structure, you alter it's composition. You could say you alter the molecular structure, but a compound has more than one type of molecules so not even that.
If you alter something's atomic structure you're either turning it into an isomer, or you've cracked the alchemists code and know how to turn lead into gold.
If you alter something's atomic structure you're either turning it into an isomer, or you've cracked the alchemists code and know how to turn lead into gold.
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drastronomy (10/24/2015) [-] >presented by corning
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I would rather say its the age of silicone or plastic...
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I would rather say its the age of silicone or plastic...
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protectorofjam ONLINE (10/24/2015) [-] It's saturday, I didn't thing I'd learn anything today.
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corsairjoshua (10/25/2015) [-] Damn Adam you need to shave those little mutton chops you've got going on
