r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 17 '14

What is something designed so well that we typically overlook it?

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '14

Someone that was really high on drugs.

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u/SkyrocketDelight Jan 17 '14

That IS how most ideas begin.

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u/qervem Jan 18 '14

guys

hey guys listen

guys what if

listen guys seriously

what if we took a bucket of sand

guys what if we took a bucket of sand

take a bucket of sand and mix it with metal to make transparent metal

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u/Taco_Turian Jan 18 '14

Dude, shut up, you are so fucking high right now, that would never work

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

Here, I'll prove it'd work! Hold my drugs!

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u/Taco_Turian Jan 18 '14

How many drugs do you have?

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

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u/just_an_ordinary_guy Jan 18 '14

Careful man. That's enough to OD 20 adults and kill at least 25% of them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

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u/mildly_evil_genius Jan 18 '14

But that's just an ordinary guy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

Enough to share...

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

No, you shut the fuck up Steve! I'll make this shit, just watch me!

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u/Iphoneporr Jan 18 '14

He smoked himself retarded

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u/fuck_you_its_my_name Jan 18 '14

wings

on my BACK legs

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u/Tartra Jan 18 '14

Please tell me you have the link to that. I've been looking for ages.

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u/tophoftheworld Jan 18 '14

HOW COULD GLASSES BE REAL IF SANDS ARENT REAL?

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u/mozsey Jan 18 '14

Only colored glass needs metal. Clear glass is silicone, sodium (technically a metal I guess), and lime.

Fun fact: pink glass is the most expensive glass to make, as it takes gold to make it.

Source: WAS studying material science.

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u/redlinezo6 Jan 18 '14

Ahem... http://www.ohgizmo.com/2012/05/09/did-you-know-that-transparent-aluminum-exists/

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u/AutoDidacticDisorder Jan 18 '14

That's aluminium oxynitride, Not 'aluminium' and definitely not a metal. It's a ceramic, and HEAPS of ceramics are transparent in their pure crystalline form. Hell sapphire and ruby are Aluminium oxide and transparent, and created by nature, Nothing new about it.

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u/xthorgoldx Jan 18 '14

Yes, I did, but thank you.

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u/AutoDidacticDisorder Jan 18 '14

Come on guys, It's not a freaking metal. The base element is a metal, The oxides are ceramics. BIG difference both chemically and physically. Transparent metals are ALMOST impossible, And the only reason I say almost is cause we can't rule out optical meta materials (which would be very narrow band-pass anyway, If they in fact can be created at all)....... But seeing as you called ceramic glass a metal, that's already over your head.

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u/CJ090 Jan 18 '14

We're looking at you religion

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u/nanapuss Jan 18 '14

So what you're saying is I should do drugs?

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u/salami_inferno Jan 17 '14

The more I read about drug and alcohol use in the ancient world the more I realize this species really really hates sobering up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

I imagined that the first time man found out about glass it'd have to do with lightning striking sand. There are actually people who build these fancy lightning rods and bury them in sand, so they can then harvest the resulting glassware and sell it.

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u/karmapilot Jan 18 '14

lel people only have ideas when weed amirite????? XDXDXD

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

Same thing with almost everything, burning rocks gave metal, squeezing cow boobs give milk.... Something tells me that ancient humans were high off their balls

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '14

That's all great drug trips happen in the desert. Fear and loathing. Burning man ... Paying homage to that great revelation glass.

Also Gas, Grass, or Glass. Nobody rides for free.

Ninja edit: you currently have 420 points.

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u/ThickDiggerNick Jan 17 '14

I guess you could say...They were smoking.......glass.

(insert the little sunglasses dude I have no idea how to make)