steve m
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 06:00 PM |
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Metal, and were it came from
This may sound odd, but when I am out and about, I look around, and wherever I am, you will see METAL, doesn't matter what type, but the stuff
is everywhere
It could be the cars, the trains, the rails, signs, the metal barriers that we all have to look at on motorways, bridges, boats, aeroplanes, think of
all the ships, that have been sunk over the years, 1000s of tons of METAL, and all at the bottom of the sea, the list is pretty well infinite!
Yet, we have to think, that EVERY single bit of metal, has been brought up from the ground, refined, and smelted into ingots, and then moved onto what
ever it will end up as
This Planet is pretty well amazing, and how much is still under our feets
steve
Thats was probably spelt wrong, or had some grammer, that the "grammer police have to have a moan at
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snapper
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 07:46 PM |
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I think you should put the cork in the bottle and have a little lie down
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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steve m
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 07:58 PM |
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So, your not a fan of what we have, and can achieve in 300 ish years, since the Industrial revolution
steve
Thats was probably spelt wrong, or had some grammer, that the "grammer police have to have a moan at
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Benzine
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 08:55 PM |
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I often think the same when I see so much metal around. Also when I see roads and think how much material and energy went into them. It's
amazing.
Also, how much steel, aluminum, copper, titanium etc is used in most cars. The amount is mind boggling. Nobody has ever voiced concern over this, and
suddenly some people are worried about lithium in battery powered EVs XD
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 09:44 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by snapper
I think you should put the cork in the bottle and have a little lie down
Lol
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 09:51 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
I often think the same when I see so much metal around. Also when I see roads and think how much material and energy went into them. It's
amazing.
Also, how much steel, aluminum, copper, titanium etc is used in most cars. The amount is mind boggling. Nobody has ever voiced concern over this, and
suddenly some people are worried about lithium in battery powered EVs XD
By the sounds of it, well before lithium supplys run out it will be replaced by tech already in development. Fortunately metal is one of the most
successfully recycled materials we use which is just as well considering the energy required for acquiring it in the first place. It's sad in a
way non recyclable alternatives like carbon fibre and plastics have replaced much of it.
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steve m
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 10:06 PM |
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Im still here, and awake, not pissed, as some thought
I honestly, like Benzine said, look around and think, how the hell, did we manage to do this stuff, as a species we have grown up from a poverty
stricken planet in the early 1700's (ish) yet only 300 (ish) years, have managed to do what we have, Flight being one of the biggest items, and
METAL, being very heavy, is in the structure of aircraft
The industrial revolution, around 1750, must of been incredible then, and still is, but what we can achieve now, with the materials we have is
incredible
only saying!!
steve
Thats was probably spelt wrong, or had some grammer, that the "grammer police have to have a moan at
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mark chandler
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 10:15 PM |
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Technology has been amazing in my lifetime, from working in a strowger clockwork exchange to the Internet, saved for a 26" TV, it was amazing to
thinking nothing about the huge Sony I sit in front of now.
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40inches
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 11:15 PM |
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The quantity of stuff we get through There is a series on the box called "In the factory" I think!
Last one was a loo roll factory in Manchester, they make 700,000 rolls a DAY!!! In one factory.
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02GF74
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| posted on 21/6/19 at 11:54 PM |
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For me it is tar, the stuff roads are made of. Walking or driving in a town there seeks to be a vast amount of it that must cumulatively cover huge
area..... Then take a look at a satellite image to see roads are almost insignificant to the land on which they sit on.
Incidentally getting back to metals, a from memory apparently all the gold that has ever been mined would just fill 2 Olympic sized swimming pools,
that's all the gold bars, jeweeand gold plated contacts in electriconics.
Whilst not a metal, there's just 30 grams TOTAL in the earth's crust of astatine.
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perksy
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| posted on 22/6/19 at 11:18 AM |
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I'm a bit surprised that Virtual reality has taken off more than I thought it might ?
A few years ago I visualized folks all sat at home with head sets on 'being a part' of a TV or film experience
[Edited on 22/6/19 by perksy]
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scudderfish
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| posted on 22/6/19 at 01:10 PM |
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And before that metal got in the ground, it was created in the heart of an exploding star.......
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