Stop believing everything you've ever been told. Ever ever.
Two tonics for the two teutonic tectonic techs!
If you please, barkeep.
And if your german geologist father was an alcoholic, I apologize.
But you both should have seen it coming.
Moving on, heard that glass is some sort of liquid, today.
It's not. Just because it tends to be thicker at the bottom than at the top in old cathedral windows doesn't mean it's become that way.
It's just a standard building practice to make things thicker at the bottom than at the top.
Look at the pyramids.
And back then, when the engineering standards were anything but standard, and the fabrication processes weren't all that exact, what do you expect? Smooth, flat piece of glass? Wrong again, sport.
Go to a museum and ask to lick one of the obsidian arrowheads.
They're made of glass, so after 10,000 years, they shouldn't still be razor sharp and slash your tongue open. Right? Right?
Or look through a 200-year-old telescope, and ask yourself why it still gives a very clear picture, since any slight deformation in the lens would cause the image to blur. See the history of the Hubble Space Telescope for a big oops on that.
Just because very old things might not seem to be made as good as newer things, that doesn't mean you get to jump to conclusions about the materials used.
Or say things that just aren't true.
Myth busted.
Cock-a-doodle-do.
Just think about it. All the things you've been told. All the things you believe.
All I ask. Think about it.
If you please, barkeep.
And if your german geologist father was an alcoholic, I apologize.
But you both should have seen it coming.
Moving on, heard that glass is some sort of liquid, today.
It's not. Just because it tends to be thicker at the bottom than at the top in old cathedral windows doesn't mean it's become that way.
It's just a standard building practice to make things thicker at the bottom than at the top.
Look at the pyramids.
And back then, when the engineering standards were anything but standard, and the fabrication processes weren't all that exact, what do you expect? Smooth, flat piece of glass? Wrong again, sport.
Go to a museum and ask to lick one of the obsidian arrowheads.
They're made of glass, so after 10,000 years, they shouldn't still be razor sharp and slash your tongue open. Right? Right?
Or look through a 200-year-old telescope, and ask yourself why it still gives a very clear picture, since any slight deformation in the lens would cause the image to blur. See the history of the Hubble Space Telescope for a big oops on that.
Just because very old things might not seem to be made as good as newer things, that doesn't mean you get to jump to conclusions about the materials used.
Or say things that just aren't true.
Myth busted.
Cock-a-doodle-do.
Just think about it. All the things you've been told. All the things you believe.
All I ask. Think about it.