Comment on [Thread] Mental Math
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
When sharpening knives, with practice you can tell when you are done by sliding your fingertips along (not across) the sharpened bevel. It’s possible to feel imperfections measured in micrometers this way.
I mean, most people do it across, rather than along the blade, what with the necessity of detecting a burr, which can’t usually be felt length wise. You slide along the blade, and it is sharp, if you screw up you get cut.
That doesn’t take away from what you’re saying, it’s very true, no matter which direction you’re feeling. Just normal, average fingertips can pick up stuff like that, that you’d need a microscope to see. It’s a trip!
The burr is also detectable lengthwise. When starting with a dull blade it feels smooth while sliding fingers lenghtwise. When the burr is formed, it starts to feel rough. When it feels like it’s digging into skin, it’s sharp. It’s a very subjective thing though, everybody has different fingers.
Is way better to draw your finger perpendicular to the edge to feel the burr. That way you don’t cut yourself on the edge or the burr itself.
This is how I was taught as a kid.
We have equipment to measure down to microns, and my students often test how fine details they can feel.
Worked at a machine shop for a while, it’s funny how the easiest way to gauge surface finish is to run your nail trough it
At one of the places we worked at we would know when the rough cut was deep enough just by feel
Source??
my half a finger
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
If the earth were shrank down to the size of a golf ball, you could feel houses.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That seems wildly unnecessary. I can already feel houses.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
I’m sure there’s some actual science thing they’re referencing here, but I don’t understand it. Who can’t feel houses?
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Both a house and a golf ball are unbelievably tiny compared to the size of the Earth. The idea that you can shrink the Earth many thousands of times over and be able to feel a house parallels with our ability to feel micro imperfections on knife blades.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
People without fingers, I guess
theneverfox@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
No, you feel a house. Think of how many houses you could feel at once #shrinkearthtoagolfball