Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Metal is made from refined rocks, therefore Metal music is refined Rock music (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago (19 children)

I always figured it was because metal is harder than rock.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (14 children)

But rocks are harder. Metal can bend where rocks would break.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Ah! Might good sir be a fellow Mechanical Engineer?

(no one else considers stuff that break instead of bend to be "harder")

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's just because it's really hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Rock is usually harder though, but steel is more tough. Compared to a lot of other materials steel is still really hard, to be fair. At least that's my understanding, as someone who just googled "hardness vs toughness" lol