TIL: Amazing Process of Cutting Gigantic Volcanic Glass to Make Crystal Balls
TIL: Amazing Process of Cutting Gigantic Volcanic Glass to Make Crystal Balls
Video of people making crazy crystal balls
I cannot possibly imagine not doing this job in a fully sealed deep diving suit with a hepa filter and chainmail from head to toe.
Silicosis is a fucking nightmare on par with mesothelioma and emphysema.
66Honestly, this is actually one of the times where the satirical word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is actually applicable!?
34Yeah, the N95's are a good step, but probably not enough. Some people weren't wearing masks at all.
Also, It didn't look like any of the saws had good safety stops, the angle-grinders were taped down, and the guy cutting the balls seemed to be really close to getting a (gloved) hand sucked into the saw.
Definitely not the worst safety, but people are definitely getting hurt at this job site. And this is what they considered good enough to show on Youtube, so probably worse than we think...
Very cool balls though.
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Does volcanic glass really look like that? Perhaps it's just glass slag from a factory.
25It's slag.
28The only type of (natural) volcanic glass found in appreciable quantities is obsidian. I don't know of any others at all.
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Thumbnail looks dope, here’s the URL without Google’s shady little tracker if you wanna edit it in:
Edit: this is so cool
20I couldn't do that simply because of the sounds.
So many years spent at the clubs my brain is trained that broken glass, bottles skiddling on the street, all those kinds noises, those are warning sounds, the sounds of the night (or morning) needs to wrap the fuck up, where's the car, where's that one friend no one has seen since you parked, let's go, get in.
Ybor will do that to you ....
16PTSD from partying too hard...
7A good life is a life of well timed exits ....
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Sheesh, in San Francisco even closing the afters at 6am isn’t that problematic!
Wonder if the genre or the region has more of an impact. What’d you listen to in Ybor (Tampa?), any house?
2Breaks, filthy dirty breaks.
It's the area / Florida. In the mid nineties to mid 2000s it was pretty much a free for all in Ybor. Lots of laws and rules and closing times made as a result of the scene being so absolutely out of hand, not just in the clubs, it was out on and in the streets, alleys, etc etc. People blowing up to the music everywhere... Just over the top Insanity.
Completely and utterly impossible for that to happen today.
I miss it.
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Misleading title, but fascinating video nonetheless.
11I wasn't sure if this was a community that removes posts if you change the title.
3Understandable, I would have left the original title intact as well. A real enjoyable video, thanks for posting.
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My lungs itched after watching that video.
11Why do we need crystal balls?
Not making a future pun.
6A de-gloving injury just waiting to happen.
6Okay NGL, I would love to have blood red gravel to decorate... Something. If I owned property.
4Blood red gravel that draws red blood....Doom Guy vibes in landscaping
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... Huh? No, we don't have that, but we do have "oh shit!" as in "Oh shit I lost another finger!"
3Do they have an Etsy?
2There must be easier (and safer) ways to make novelty bowling balls.
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