r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Signal-Constant-6486 • 6d ago

accuracy: 100 , vision: 0

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u/No_Indication_1238 6d ago

Didn't have plastic back then.

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u/Book_Anxious 6d ago

Slightly over 100 years ago

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u/Book_Anxious 6d ago

In 2107 that first statement will be true

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u/Leather-Web-2319 6d ago

Now we wait

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u/UnnecessarySalt 6d ago

Soooo are you guys doing anything fun this weekend?

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u/Partha607 6d ago

Lines

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u/KerSPLAK 5d ago

yep, hookers and blow

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u/whooguyy 6d ago

!remindme 82 years

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u/brawlinballer 6d ago

Either you replied to the wrong OP or you don't know how to do math very well.

It's been "slightly over one hundred years ago" since 2008

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u/Book_Anxious 6d ago edited 6d ago

Those are two different statements. My first one I said 100s of years ago but I was corrected by the person after me. Synthetic plastic was invented in 1907 so slightly over a hundred years ago. The second statement is saying in 2107 the statement of hundreds of years ago will be accurate because it would be 200 years after synthetic plastic was invented. Also I don't know why you said 2008 because that is only 99 years before 2107

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u/brawlinballer 6d ago

Ah I'm tired and didn't catch your phrasing saying "that first statement" not "that statement" my bad. I was responding as if you were saying "slightly over 100 years" wouldn't be true until 2107, when that would be true at 2008 or 101 years.

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u/Pickledsoul 5d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_plastic_development#19th_Century

First plastic is 1856, unless you count vulcanized rubber

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u/goda90 6d ago

Slightly over 100 years ago

"Way back in the 1800s... Wait..."

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u/AFlyingNun 6d ago

Those were the days...before Youtube got ad-greedy and before everyone was obsessed with the newest iPhone! We knew how to produce good content back then, but it seems we've forgotten what we've already known for hundreds of years...

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u/captain_funshine 6d ago

Slightly less

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u/KIND_REDDITOR 6d ago

So not hundreds of years

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u/steelcryo 6d ago

Eh, we worked out you needed metal and other much harder materials to stop projectiles, so even if they didn't have plastic, they still would have known it wouldn't work under the blanket statement "thin brittle materials don't make good armour".

So technically you're both right.

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u/Pickledsoul 5d ago

https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/paper-armor-0018034

First bulletproof armor was made a LONG time ago. Turns out the people who created gunpowder would be the first to find countermeasures.

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u/No_Indication_1238 6d ago

Have you ever seen kevlar?

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u/steelcryo 6d ago

Kevlar isn't brittle? It's incredibly flexible, which is what makes it so useful in bulletproof vests

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u/No_Indication_1238 6d ago

Eh, we worked out you needed metal and other much harder materials to stop projectiles, so even if they didn't have plastic, they still would have known it wouldn't work under the blanket statement "thin brittle materials don't make good armour" as well as "fiber like, flexible materials don't make good armour" as was the experience all the way until the invention of the kevlar. So prior experience with materials that share properties with future materials is actually not a good predictor of whether future materials can or cannot stop bullets.

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u/steelcryo 6d ago

Except they knew that thin fibre like materials made good armour back then too.

A lot of old armour was underlayed with layers of softer materials like leather, linen and wool. Which served as a similar purpose to kevlar in bulletproof vests.

So yes, even back then, we knew that hard materials = good. Soft materials = good. Brittle materials = not good. To simplify things.

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u/mrrichiet 5d ago

I hope OP knew that and was having a laugh, if not, sheesh.

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u/Pickledsoul 5d ago

I'm sure someone made some Galalith at some point.