What about lead vs obsidian?
Check and mate, music nerds.
Comment on Metal is made from refined rocks, therefore Metal music is refined Rock music
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I always figured it was because metal is harder than rock.
teft@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Diamond is the hardest metal. Ask any astrophysicist
Klear@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Van Halen, then.
dukethorion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Neil Diamond is the softest.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 months ago
But rocks are harder. Metal can bend where rocks would break.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re talking about brittleness and tensile strength, not hardness. Hardness is measured with the Mohs Hardness Scale, and there is significant cross-over between “rocks” and hardened metal.
4am@lemm.ee 6 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@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think there were pendants in the 70s
troed@fedia.io 6 months ago
Ah! Might good sir be a fellow Mechanical Engineer?
(no one else considers stuff that break instead of bend to be "harder")
improve7elephants@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I‘d argue many people outside of the field are able to grasp it too
meekah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But most people don’t differentiate between hardness and toughness in day to day language
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But metal can also split rock.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 months ago
But rock beats scissors and scissors are metal.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
depends on the “rock” and the “metal” (usually an alloy)