Science isn't cruel but it is indifferent. For example, dT/dt = K*dT/dx^2 where T is temperature, K is thermal diffusivity and x is skin thickness. A back-of-the-envelope dimensionalization and a skin diffusivity somewhere between water and nylon gives time = (distance^2)/K. Therefore those sorry fools can walk for t=(2*10^-3 m)^2/(10^-6 m^2 s^-1) or about 4 seconds before they feel it. However, a firewalker who invokes a force field probably has a better chance of getting laid then a scientist who invokes the thermal diffusivity equation.

Japan is one of the places I dare not enter.
>> ^furrycloud:
Japan is on my list of places I must visit in my lifetime.

Would have been funny to run up halfway and cut the nylon with scissors in the middle so they both go flying away

Tools you need to protect your children:

- Stapler (1x): Check
- 20 Slices of Tesco's own ham: Check
- 45 yards of nylon: Checks
- Industrial strength glue (2 litres): Check
- His/Hers Chastity belt: Check

Sweet! I'm ready to be a father!

> I interpret Vintage as "1970s and older".

agree... Rob Lowe with white nylon pants is not vintage

Yeah baby, the good stuff. I'm a big fan of glass-filled nylon myself. That and bakelite for nostalga's sake.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Uh... not that I know of. Usually just ABS, polycarb, ploypro, polystyrene, polyethelene and an assortment of rubbers.


He he.. I said 'rubbers'....

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
How about PLA? The corn-starch stuff, ever worked with that?

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
I think my job just got a whole lot more interesting.

Today in Retard 101 we'll be examining the relationship of high speed nylon cord on the human nipple. Any questions?

Schmawy, you joke, but such things exist...

Also people do a lot of things other animals don't do. I've never known an Alpaca, murderous as they are, that has tightly woven stain resistant nylon fibers together into a large mat and used it to cover the floor of its living area so it is a more comfortable place to walk and sit.

I think its folly to judge human behavior by the behavior of other animals. Our basis of whether something is right or wrong should not be based on whether or not the mighty capibara includes it in its behaviors. In the case of milk I don't think other adult animals indulge in it because they do not have ready access to it. Adult cats love milk, heck even birds like it they just don't have the ability to get it.

All that said, the large dairy, egg and poultry farms could probably really use some reform. Not only are conditions often bad for the animals, but they're also bad for the food that comes from them.

In the 1920's the Du Pont company developed and patented fuel additives such as tetraethyl lead, as well as the sulfate and sulfite processes for manufacture of pulp paper and numerous new synthetic products such as nylon, cellophane, and other plastics. At the same time other companies were developing synthetic products from renewable biomass resources--especially hemp. The hemp decorticator promised to eliminate much of the need for wood-pulp paper, thus threatening to drastically reduce the value of the vast timberlands still owned by Hearst. Ford and other companies were already promising to make every product from cannabis carbohydrates that was currently currently being made from petroleum hydrocarbons. In response, from 1935 to 1937, Du Pont lobbied the chief counsel of the Treasury Department, Herman Oliphant, for the prohibition of cannabis, assuring him that Du Pont's synthetic petrochemicals (such as urethane) could replace hemp seed oil in the marketplace.

William Randolf Hearst hated minorities, and he used his chain of newspapers to aggravate racial tensions at every opportunity. Hearst especially hated Mexicans. Hearst papers portrayed Mexicans as lazy, degenerate, and violent, and as marijuana smokers and job stealers. The real motive behind this prejudice may well have been that Hearst had lost 800,000 acres of prime timberland to the rebel Pancho Villa, suggesting that Hearst's racism was fueled by Mexican threat to his empire.


Just another FYI:
Peter Bensinger is a former head of the DEA. He and his partner Robert DuPont (former Director of NIDA) created Bensinger, DuPont & Associates, which profits from selling drug war related consulting and testing services.

I was hoping for more in that direction too, but I guess you can only fit so much into a less than 10 minute video. The nylon angle was one we don't see much elsewhere and was a decent use of the time I suppose.

Maybe I'll try to dig something up that goes more into the genetics side assuming someone doesn't beat me to it. Read a very cool article a while back which I'm sure was linked here in the first place, the proof on that end seems to me even more solid than the fossil record suggests. Rather than getting weaker over time as some suggest the "theory" just gets stronger. Fascinating 8 page article, a bit long but worth the time I thought.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/03/071203fa_fact_specter

This is an absolutely fantastic video.

The nylon-eating bacteria basically proved the entire thing. That's all you need to say. It's like maddox's "ok you like the matrix, but why did we have to see keanu reaves' ass?" it just trumps EVERYTHING.

Hopefully some retired dude with a few hundred extra bucks will supply them with real harnesses carabiners etc. etc... you like to try the nylon webbing harness? or do you want to try the burlap sack again?

I knew you were going to have to say something about this sift

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“I had the coveted leather Members Only - with extra big epelauts. My friends had the nylon ones, with mandatory Iron Maiden badges. DeathCow had a red one.”

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I had the coveted leather Members Only - with extra big epelauts. My friends had the nylon ones, with mandatory Iron Maiden badges. DeathCow had a red one.

Survival Kit contents check. In them you will find: one 45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Rooshan phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings -- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff....
-Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong (Slim Pickens)