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This video Destin does on the structure of the Prince Rupert Drop is really interesting.
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Nor do you want to use a Prince Rupert's Drop for your Prince Albert. Ouch.

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It's a little slow, but stay with it for an interesting first hand account of a visit to an oil refinery in India, and observations of the managers and workers there. Lee also visited a nearby the pier where massive container ships dock with a manager named Jitesh.




"A few moments pass as we all stood, just watching.

Out of the silence, Jitesh says to me “Do you see what we are doing here Mr. Lee?”

I asked “What’s that, Jitesh?”

He replied, with an unexpected, sobering tone: “We are destroying future generations for now, and forever.”






Full transcript of the uninterrupted essay is here:
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/earthmatters/2012/02/20/oil-executive-sons-testimony-prince-rupert-northern-gateway-pipeline

pretty major stoner laugh...
check out this neat property of glass:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_Drop



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I've seen these things hit about as hard as can be managed with a hammer. I'd be quite surprised to see anyone break one without resorting to far more drastic measures.

>> ^E_Nygma:
^ yeah... more like can't be broken when gently tapped on. i don't know about anyone else, but when i use a hammer, i hold the base of the handle and swing it more than 10 degrees.