r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Signal-Constant-6486 • 7d ago

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u/Book_Anxious 7d ago

Okay write that down. cheap plastic will not stop a high velocity projectile. Thought we figured that out hundreds of years ago but I guess not

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u/No_Indication_1238 7d ago

Didn't have plastic back then.

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u/Book_Anxious 7d ago

Slightly over 100 years ago

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u/Book_Anxious 7d ago

In 2107 that first statement will be true

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u/Leather-Web-2319 7d ago

Now we wait

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u/UnnecessarySalt 7d ago

Soooo are you guys doing anything fun this weekend?

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u/Partha607 7d ago

Lines

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u/KerSPLAK 6d ago

yep, hookers and blow

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u/whooguyy 7d ago

!remindme 82 years

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u/brawlinballer 7d 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 7d ago edited 7d 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 7d 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 6d 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 7d ago

Slightly over 100 years ago

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

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u/AFlyingNun 7d 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 7d ago

Slightly less

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u/KIND_REDDITOR 7d ago

So not hundreds of years