Comment on Summoning the Beast of Big Pharma

Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s actually a vaporizer, this dude is one of the fathers of modern vaping, like Bob Snodgrass is the father of modern borosilicate glass bongs.

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  • bobo@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More like one of the sons of modern vaping. The steam chalice predates his experiments by a few decades, and it looks like a direct derivative.

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    • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s fair, steam chalice became popular back in the 70’s. I’m splitting hairs by defining modern as an electronic device whose design was copied in essence by all future makers. The steam chalice was in every stoners head back then and informed a lot of innovation.

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      • bobo@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m splitting hairs by defining modern as an electronic device whose design was copied in essence by all future makers.

        The essence of every vape is to move hot air through the herb. In that regard it doesn’t matter how you heat it, so the chalice beats it out.

        As for the specific technology, aren’t the only designs that copied it in essence volcano like bag desktops? A tiny fraction of modern devices pushes air.

        Now compare that to the majority of modern vapes, from dyna and terpcicle, over ball vapes, to electric conduction and convection. All of them move the hot air by having the user draw it, just like the steam chalice.

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• MunkyNutts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But it is isn’t it? Heat gun burning the bud up top, glass stem down from there into the water, and he’s pulling in smoke.

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  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    One point: That heat gun, by Steinel, heats from 120F to 1050F. Source: I have one just like it. That's not smoke, it's vapor, I'd wager. Opaque white smoke would fill the area above the liquid if it were burning, but it looks pretty 'see thru'. I think the temp is well below 454F.

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  • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, he’s definitely taking a rip.

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  • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep, it’s standard pharmacological research procedure after all.

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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looks like mercury arc rectifier

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