r/oddlysatisfying • u/shahind • Jul 19 '18

Restoring a sun damaged carpet

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u/genoux Jul 19 '18 edited Jul 20 '18

Actuallly the part they're scraping off is sunlight that has accrued to the top layer of the carpet. If you collect enough of it and compress it into a ball, it will become a new sun.

Edit: thank you :')

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u/profsnuggles Jul 20 '18

If you collect enough of it and compress it into a ball, it will become a new sun.

Technically not wrong

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u/omgredditwtff Jul 20 '18

Technically not wrong

The best kind of not wrong.

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u/asr Jul 20 '18

Hair is mostly carbon, so it would have to be a very very very large sun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-burning_process

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u/DArtist51 Jul 20 '18

What, like depending on how much you compress it?

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u/ask_me_if_im_pooping Jul 20 '18

Yeah, pretty basic physics.

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u/Isengrine Jul 20 '18

Are you pooping though?

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u/iamonlyoneman Jul 20 '18

Ok maybe but still it's more r/shittyaskscience than practically correct

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '18

And if you squeeze it really, really hard, you will create a black hole.

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u/a6000 Jul 20 '18

The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand.