Comment on Metal is made from refined rocks, therefore Metal music is refined Rock music

• 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.

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  • 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

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think there were pendants in the 70s

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• 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")

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  • improve7elephants@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I‘d argue many people outside of the field are able to grasp it too

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    • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s just because it’s really hard

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• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But metal can also split rock.

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But rock beats scissors and scissors are metal.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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