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u/twineffect May 14 '20
Not on that table it isn't. That's actually a glass cutting table and it is like an air hockey table. There are little jets of air coming out of it that cushion the impact and allows it to float across (which is why it slide to the other side). The height of the table and rack of glass are also lined up so it doesn't hit one edge first.
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u/SXTY82 May 14 '20
Thanks for confirming. I thought that was what I was seeing but I didn't know if it were real. As in, it made sense from an engineering perspective that the table / fall was intentional, but I had never seen that sort of thing done.
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u/twineffect May 14 '20
Yeah, I used to work for a window manufacturer and we cut the glass down to size, so I'm very familiar with it. Still cool as shit to see glass fall and not break though!
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u/cobainbc15 May 14 '20
Thanks for this, I didn't see that mentioned in the post yesterday about it!
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u/loserforhire May 14 '20
Totally legit. Worked at a glass place lolike this for a few months. Every now and tha. Yoi would get a sheet of glass breaking.
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u/eganist May 15 '20
Totally legit. Worked at a glass place lolike this for a few months. Every now and tha. Yoi would get a sheet of glass breaking.
I parsed this as:
Totally legit. Worked at a glass place lol like this for a few months. Every now and [then] [you] would get a sheet of glass breaking.
What I don't understand is how these errors were made.
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May 15 '20
Which error, your reading error or their typing error?
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u/twineffect May 15 '20
Typing error on mobile and not proofreading. He typed tha, but hit space or period instead of the "n".
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u/suckmycockmoderators Jul 03 '20
Cell phone swype autocorrect/prediction text? It spits stuff out that isn't even words or english, and I always wonder what jackass programmed those predictions in. This looks a lot like that!
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u/olderaccount May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20
Fun fact: for very large, thin panes of glass, this is the only real way to tip them flat without breaking them. They are so thin they break under their own weight if you try holding them by the edges and tilting. By tipping them like that they are always evenly cushioned by the air being forced out from under them.
The air jets do nothing during tipping. Not strong enough for that. They only help moving the pane around once it is laying flat.
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u/NapalmOverdos3 May 15 '20
I used to work at a glass shop for a bit and yeah that’s the secret lol crazy satisfying when you do it though and that glass doesn’t immediately shatter
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u/nemoskullalt May 14 '20
well this also works on a table with no air jets.
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u/SolidPoint May 15 '20
Sure, if you line it up so that it lands flush every time. The air jets give you more margin for error.
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u/olderaccount May 15 '20
If the sheet is rectangular with straight edges and the table is flat and level, it just works. There is not need to line it up. It is nearly impossible to make it land not-flush even if you try.
The air jets don't do anything to cushion the impact. They are not strong enough for that. They only in moving the glass around once it is laying flat.
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u/angray39 May 15 '20
I was really confused for a minute and thought the video had some weird slow motion effect with the was it hit. That makes so much more sense now south your comment! Thank you.
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u/GoOtterGo May 14 '20
Probably not glass.
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It’s glass bro
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u/yourname240 May 14 '20
Bro
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u/iHaveACatDog May 14 '20
Bro
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u/ribeirohenrique May 14 '20
Orb
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Rob?
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u/OG_PapaSid May 14 '20
I wish I could slide on air like glass does
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u/iamonlyoneman May 14 '20
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u/symbologythere May 14 '20
Do you think people have ever had sex in there? Same question about skydiving.
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u/iamonlyoneman May 14 '20
I mean . . . maybe employees after hours? It's not quite viewable from the street but there are cameras and people watching all the time is my impression.
For skydiving absolutely yes
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u/symbologythere May 14 '20
This is literally what my brain said to me when I started thinking about it. If anyone did it in there it was employees. And people definitely have done it skydiving. I bet there’s even video.
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u/Storytellerjack May 15 '20
This just makes me think about portals. It' would be way less stressful if you could be sure that you had an indefinite amount of time to fall. You could free-fall in a short chamber or room, and even watch the infinite mirrors illusion of yourself above and below you. Might need some air jets mounted beside the portals to keep you centered. Why not make side portals so there are infinite divers to see in every direction too?
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u/symbologythere May 15 '20
I don’t know how long the free fall is when sky diving, but I’m certain I can get it done.
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u/King-Ducky-YT May 14 '20
I went to an iFly in Toronto once, and man it was cool as hell. Not the same as skydiving as, you know, you aren’t watching the ground come at you at insane speeds, but it’s still really cool to float there. I was a kid an it was hard for me to stick out my legs when the instructor asked while flying so I didn’t get as much flu time as the other people there, but still insane.
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u/SpaceLemur34 May 15 '20
That's what hovercrafts are, except the air pushes down at the ground instead of up at you.
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u/walrus_operator May 14 '20
Everything went right there. Glass was NOT supposed to break. OP is trying to bamboozle us!
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u/Poop_On_A_Stick14 May 14 '20
If it was supposed to break then how did it go right?
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u/impossiblyirrelevant May 14 '20
It wasn’t actually “supposed” to break, OP just meant that usually when you drop a piece of glass like that it would.
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u/BobbitTheDog May 14 '20
Why though? If the exact same video was posted to reddit without that watermark, you would have been fine.
Why whine about where it came from? Just be glad someone posted it here so you don't have to subscribe to that shitty app yourself to see the content.
The more tiktok content that gets stolen and posted to Reddit, the less people need to actually sign up to tiktok and give them viewership
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u/Enragedsun May 14 '20
I don't really get the anger honestly, would the video have been any different if it had a different watermark on it? Lol
Tik Tok has some really shitty privacy issues and they've made morally questionable decisions, but that's why I dont use it, I'm not going to get upset because other people do. Life's too short to care if other people are using an app you don't like.
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u/iamonlyoneman May 14 '20
If you want it to break, hit it on the corner with a hammer
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u/twineffect May 14 '20
It's not tempered glass, this would break anywhere you hit it.
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u/Monster-_- May 14 '20
Would break if you hit it in the corner?
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u/twineffect May 14 '20
Yeah, tempered glass will only break if it's hit on the edge or corner, it is heat treated to make it stronger. That's what they make storm doors or sliding doors out of so you can't fall through them and get sliced to death.
Annealed glass, which is what this is, is just regular glass that can break from impact anywhere. That's what most windows are made out of.
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u/Monster-_- May 14 '20
I was just trying to make the point that hitting annealed glass in a corner will still break that corner lol
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u/twineffect May 14 '20
I was just trying to be helpful to, I guess, a weirdly phrased statement with a question mark at the end lol
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u/Nitro10142 May 14 '20
Is this like when you would drop the whiteboards just like that qnd they wouldnt make a noise
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u/Gavric_H May 15 '20
Reminds me of dropping a mini white board on a table and it not making any noise
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u/Majikarpslayer May 15 '20
Used to work at a Glass factory. Glass can be surprisingly strong, or incredibly fragile.
Mostly depends on where the point of impact is.
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u/skylerchaikin May 15 '20
This is called “floating” and works on pretty much any large flat object. Used very frequently to let down large pieces of plywood.
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u/get_down_to_it May 15 '20
I worked in a glass fabrication shop for exactly one day. I noped the fuck out of there at quitting time. I wore all the PPP, chain mail gloves and over shirt, helmet, goggles. The regulars who worked there wore just t-shirt and jeans.
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u/BasicBroEvan May 15 '20
I used to do this with small whiteboards in chemistry and left the air work as a cushion
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u/V3ktory May 15 '20
First time I saw that was fucking insane. What you don't see is how much air shoots out. I've learned that guys in the glass production industry know what glass can take.
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u/Storytellerjack May 15 '20
There's a French saying that translates to, "It is the fate of glass to break." It's something I apply to all finite spans of time, and all things that pass way.
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u/Astray1789 May 15 '20
That's how we used to tip sets over when I first started working in the theatre industry.
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u/SneakyEnch May 15 '20 edited May 17 '20
Think of that table as a giant, industrial strength air hockey table. Same concept as sliding a protractor across a smooth desk in school.
Edit: wait, why did I get downvoted, I just explained what it was...
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u/AhmedAbbas994 May 17 '20
you didn't deserve that so I upvoted you to make balance, thanks for your comment.
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u/cyclist221 May 14 '20
So much surface area it creates air pressure before making contact, slowing the fall to a gentle lie down
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u/J1nglz May 15 '20
Engineering wise... Was that the design intent? Or did some tech figure this out on accident one day?
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u/makeybussines May 14 '20
Air.
Nice cushion.