USELESS INFORMATION thread

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[Frood]

When cutting any thick industrial grade of dark (carbon black infused) rubber (ie tyre rubber but up to 5-20 times thicker), always use a very sharp butchers knife approximately 10-16 inches long, a mixture of 40% cheap hand or dish washing soap and the rest water. Do not blend the two liquids too much. If it froths, it's no good.

Start the cut until you can fit a small pinch/crowbar behind the blade, then gradually lift out on the bar while slicing at a slight angle which seems counter-intuitive but actually will plumb it close to 90 degrees.

Constantly dip the blade in the aforementioned solution, and if the rubber is bigger than 80 mm's thick, switch to a long crow bar. If you're on your own.

Never use a mechanical saw or power tool on any rubber unless you want to be decapitated, lose a limb, or genitals.

There are exceptions to this rule but I don't want to be responsible for any unsupervised tomfoolery. Stick to long thick stainless steel butcher knives, the solution, and an adequate prying device with a steady motion (at an angle once started).

 

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[Seamajor]

Termites never give up.

 

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[realgrimm]

Mixing rubbing alcohol and bleach make cylorophorm

 

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o find the world’s most sinister examples of mind control, don’t look to science fiction. Instead, go to a tropical country like Brazil, and venture deep into the jungle. Find a leaf that’s hanging almost exactly 25 centimeters above the forest floor, no more and no less. Now look underneath it. If you’re in luck, you might find an ant clinging to the leaf’s central vein, jaws clamped tight for dear life. But this ant’s life is already over. And its body belongs to Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, the zombie-ant fungus.

When the fungus infects a carpenter ant, it grows through the insect’s body, draining it of nutrients and hijacking its mind. Over the course of a week, it compels the ant to leave the safety of its nest and ascend a nearby plant stem. It stops the ant at a height of 25 centimeters—a zone with precisely the right temperature and humidity for the fungus to grow. It forces the ant to permanently lock its mandibles around a leaf. Eventually, it sends a long stalk through the ant’s head, growing into a bulbous capsule full of spores. And because the ant typically climbs a leaf that overhangs its colony’s foraging trails, the fungal spores rain down onto its sisters below, zombifying them in turn.

 

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