It’s kind of wild just how useful asbestos actually was. Aside from the obvious issues, it was genuinely a miracle material that did all sorts of cool things. Too bad our insides hate it more than just about anything else.
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Still is, honestly. We still use asbestos in a ton of stuff, but we're just generally a lot more careful about using it fortunately, and not doing as many open-air asbestos shoveling competitions upwind from the schoolyard.
Haha yeah. That’s where I recently learned about it myself. They’ve been on a hot streak of some really fantastic videos as of late.
streak of some really fantastic videos
OP:
THERE'S A VERITASIUM VIDEO ABOUT THE 4 FREEDOMS MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!!!!!
I used to know this retired Air Force jet pilot guy. He had an asbestos glove he took. You could put it on and just bury your hand in the bbq coals, hand didn't even get warm. It was like straight up magic.
Medieval kings used to do party tricks where they'd throw their (asbestos) tablecloth into the fire to impress their guests, and then have it pulled out and relaid on the table
Jetfuel can't melt asbestos beams
Sure can weaken them though
There were the whole MAGAZINE of just asbestos??????
Would you believe, that the whole magazine was actually printed on refined asbestos too?
n-no?
They were just trying to market the stuff asbestos they could
Dad? Where are you?
The real question is did they stand by their product? What was the magazine printed on? Angryduck.jpg
Why are they advertising the mineral asbestos in asbestos magazine? Surely nobody is reading that publication because they're on the fence about the stuff?
We knew it was bad then too. This is cynical propaganda to try to normalise its use in the face of a mounting public health crisis.
Much like fossil fuel companies today will continuously put out statements and ads and fund studies that either refute their impact or minimizes it. The cigarette industry pioneered this approach which essentially consists in putting just enough doubt and uncertainty into the public discourse to make regulation seem unnecessary overreach, despite overwhelming consensus from the subject matter experts who unlike lobbyists can't just buy their way into getting real estate in magazine stands.
"we couldnt live the way we do without it"
😆 if only
That sounds horrible they better get the asbestos out if there quick.
So...is it a good thing, or a bad thing that it took TWO HOURS to evacuate the WTC after the fire alarm went off?
Wait, I think I can answer my own question:
Probably a bad thing that it took so long to evacuate
but
a "good" thing that asbestos 🤦🏼♀️ is fireproof , so the fire didn't consume everything.
mesoTHEleoma
Is this real?? Seems to me all throughout the mediathe world trade center twin towers were teased about being destroyed since the day they were built. Like a certain ilk of people already knew for years that this was going to happen, and they took a secret sadistic pleasure in it because it meant [XYZ whatever financial/metaphysical rewards] to them 🤔
None of those are predictions, and high profile buildings are destroyed all the time in media
But what about the Johnny Bravo one at 1 minute 55 seconds, that one is a blatant prediction.
Yeah yeah yeah, movies love blowing up tall buildings, it's nothing new, but I'm talking about the April 2001 Johnny Bravo clip at one minute 55 seconds, the poster on the wall shows a picture of WTC exploding from the top, captioned "COMING SOON."
Do you know how I know that’s not the WTC? Because there’s only ONE TOWER
What do you think is more likely? A Johnny Bravo animator predicted a terrorist attack and put a clue in a children’s cartoon? Or they made a reference to an existing movie and put it on a movie theater?
For the French of lemmy, I recommend this YouTube video to know more about asbestos : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCau3jMu-Wg