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What Made My Window Shatter?

What's funny is that if you get some guy who's high on meth and give him 4 crayons and tell him to paint each little piece of glass a different color so that no two adjoining pieces have the same color, he'll do it.
 
@richardm: That would explain my not remembering the mark's name.

@Starthinker: I will certainly not ask "Evidence?" in this case. Can you substitute mathematicians for meth users?
 
Meffy said:
@richardm: That would explain my not remembering the mark's name.

@Starthinker: I will certainly not ask "Evidence?" in this case. Can you substitute mathematicians for meth users?
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My first thought was "wouldn't it be cool to paint each piece like a stained-glass window?" My second thought was "I bet a meth user could do that."


I'm just going by what someone who works with meth users tells me about their behavior. They get extremely, extremely obsessive about things and from what I've been told you could shatter that window tell them it's a puzzle and they will keep at it for days. My friend did say she saw someone seperate a tub of cake sprinkles into colors, which took all day. Have you seen a tub of cake sprinkles? I really don't know if it's true or not, I just saw all those little tiny pieces and for some reason this is what popped into my head!

My third thought was the 4 colors on a map math problem. Then I thought I need a haircut. Funny how the mind works. Oh my god! There's a red sprinkle in the blue pile!!!!!
 
The red sprinkle in the blue pile is Coyote. Let him be or he'll bite some other way.
 
epepke said:
Heat tempering cools it rather quickly. The outside hardens fast, and the inside slowly cools. This pulls on the outside, ensuring that the outside is in compression. Any bending of the glass just relieves compression. If memory serves, the depth of this compression is around 30 microns. A scratch or erosion that goes that deep will shatter the glass.
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So, I had it backwards? Could be.
Chemical tempering replaces atoms with bigger ones that have the same valence. The one I'm familiar with involves sodium and lithium ions. The increased side of the replaced ions results in the compression. This is very good; glass treated like this can be bent almost like plastic. However, if memory serves, the compression is only to the depth of about 5 microns.

Note that chemical tempering is similar to case-hardening, in which carbon monoxide is allowed to seep into a metal. I once case-hardened some aluminum rabbit in a smoky flame. It worked great.
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Heh. Isn't metalurgy fun?

I actually played with the old "damascus" folding thing a long time ago. (I used tools, not my arm, ow ow ow.) It really is pretty cool. It is a lot of work, even with a brake and a roller.

But BOY that stuff is springy when you do about 15 folds... WOW.
 
Starthinker said:
What's funny is that if you get some guy who's high on meth and give him 4 crayons and tell him to paint each little piece of glass a different color so that no two adjoining pieces have the same color, he'll do it.
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Exactly the effect of the drugs (Ritalin etc.) they put ADHD kids on: makes the most mind-numbingly tedious tasks engrossing.:D

Dumbed-down schoolwork is then easy to stay focused on.

Cheers,
Dave
 
I broke it. With my mind.

I apologize for the destruction of your property: as soon as Randi mails me my million dollar check, I'll reimburse you.
 
jj said:
Heh. Isn't metalurgy fun?

I actually played with the old "damascus" folding thing a long time ago. (I used tools, not my arm, ow ow ow.) It really is pretty cool. It is a lot of work, even with a brake and a roller.

But BOY that stuff is springy when you do about 15 folds... WOW.
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Cool! I've always wanted to do that, but I've always been more of a machining kind of guy.
 
epepke said:
I once case-hardened some aluminum rabbit in a smoky flame. It worked great.
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Apologies to Teek for the derail.

What is aluminum rabbit and why would you want to case harden it? Google has not provided anything that seems to relate and this question is now bugging me. Was this a camping trip dinner gone awry ?

Yo :yo-yo:
 
YoPopa said:
Apologies to Teek for the derail.

What is aluminum rabbit and why would you want to case harden it? Google has not provided anything that seems to relate and this question is now bugging me. Was this a camping trip dinner gone awry ?

Yo :yo-yo:
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Derail away, I'm happy enough with the explanations offered and since I will never know for sure what made my window shatter, there's only so far that particular topic can go.

My threads are made for derailing, I usually do it myself ;)
 
Uhm...

No one is gonna suggest a conspiracy and blame TEH GLOBALISTS?

Haven't you people learned anything at LC forum, forums, fora, forae, whatever?
 
Aluminum rabbit is a tasty treat made by pouring molten aluminum over toast. Also called aluminum rarebit.

... do I win a bubblegum cigar?
 
Do adolescent gosts undergo a growth spirit? Must be expensive buying a new sheet every few months as they outgrow the old one.
 
Any supersonic jets roaming the neighborhood?
 
So I'm sitting inside my house working on some papers when all of a sudden there's a big whump. The house shook and I thought a tree had fallen on it. I went out and there on the roof was this huge cement slab that had been over the double chimney like a shelf supported in the middle. It was broken in two and now leaning like an upside down V.

The slab is so heavy that even one half of it is almost impossible for one person to lift. It must be as old as the house so that would make it close to 50 years old. There was no reason I could see that it broke other than it finally failed due to age and weathering.

Anyway, it just seemed appropriate to mention in this thread.
 
It's the Spontaneous Dwelling Deconstruction Thread!

Bad news, that.
 
Shatner's acting could... NEVER! ... shatter glass.

Nimoy's poetry, maybe.

Either one's singing, oh, definitely.
 
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