RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 7 hours agoScientists create 'Superwood' that's 10 times stronger than steelwww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareManjushri@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-26 hours agoUm… what exactly is this picture of a weight sitting on the ground under a bent piece of wood supposed to show us? This picture was supposed to be embedded. Not sure what I did wrong. https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/weight-test-2.JPG
minus-squareKühlschrank@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoThis would be a dream if they can produce this with renewable energy and sequester a bunch of the carbon we’ve emitted. 90% smaller carbon footprint is already really great news
minus-squareworkerONE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-25 hours agoMaybe it shows how much the wood bent compared to the other sample?
minus-squareManjushri@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours agoYeah, but the weights are not suspended above the ground. They’re sitting on the ground. Why should I believe it won’t bend more or even break?
Um… what exactly is this picture of a weight sitting on the ground under a bent piece of wood supposed to show us?
This picture was supposed to be embedded. Not sure what I did wrong.
https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/weight-test-2.JPG
This would be a dream if they can produce this with renewable energy and sequester a bunch of the carbon we’ve emitted. 90% smaller carbon footprint is already really great news
Maybe it shows how much the wood bent compared to the other sample?
Yeah, but the weights are not suspended above the ground. They’re sitting on the ground. Why should I believe it won’t bend more or even break?