• @[email protected]
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        98 months ago

        Do you think any of the stoned motherfuckers in 1971 gave half a shit about this pedantry? Lol

        “We don’t make cars from stone like the Flintstones, we make em from metal because it’s tougher” is as far as it goes my man

        • @Daft_ish
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          28 months ago

          I think there were pendants in the 70s

    • troed
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      118 months ago

      Ah! Might good sir be a fellow Mechanical Engineer?

      (no one else considers stuff that break instead of bend to be “harder”)

        • silly goose meekah
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          108 months ago

          But most people don’t differentiate between hardness and toughness in day to day language

          • no banana
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            48 months ago

            That’s just because it’s really hard

            • silly goose meekah
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              18 months ago

              Rock is usually harder though, but steel is more tough. Compared to a lot of other materials steel is still really hard, to be fair. At least that’s my understanding, as someone who just googled “hardness vs toughness” lol

    • @Fedizen
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      38 months ago

      depends on the “rock” and the “metal” (usually an alloy)

    • @SchmidtGenetics
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      8 months ago

      But metal can also split rock. Or crush it, or pulverize it, or drill it, or etc.