It’s kind of wild just how useful asbestos actually was. Aside from the obvious issues, it was genuinely a miracle material that did all sorts of cool things. Too bad our insides hate it more than just about anything else.
Still is, honestly. We still use asbestos in a ton of stuff, but we’re just generally a lot more careful about using it fortunately, and not doing as many open-air asbestos shoveling competitions upwind from the schoolyard.
Sure, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a good thing that we’re still using it, but recognizing and treating it as a serious carcinogen rather than something benign goes a long way to improving the amount of harm it causes
It’s not that hard to make and use PPE for the miners. Whether or not it’s enforced is another question, but with how easy asbestos lawsuits seem to be, they probably are.
I used to know this retired Air Force jet pilot guy. He had an asbestos glove he took. You could put it on and just bury your hand in the bbq coals, hand didn’t even get warm. It was like straight up magic.
Medieval kings used to do party tricks where they’d throw their (asbestos) tablecloth into the fire to impress their guests, and then have it pulled out and relaid on the table
It’s kind of wild just how useful asbestos actually was. Aside from the obvious issues, it was genuinely a miracle material that did all sorts of cool things. Too bad our insides hate it more than just about anything else.
Still is, honestly. We still use asbestos in a ton of stuff, but we’re just generally a lot more careful about using it fortunately, and not doing as many open-air asbestos shoveling competitions upwind from the schoolyard.
Somebody still has to mine it though
That’s what orphans and monkey grinders are for
Sure, I’m not saying it’s necessarily a good thing that we’re still using it, but recognizing and treating it as a serious carcinogen rather than something benign goes a long way to improving the amount of harm it causes
It’s not that hard to make and use PPE for the miners. Whether or not it’s enforced is another question, but with how easy asbestos lawsuits seem to be, they probably are.
You can not make automotive breaks without it.
Veritasium has a good video on it.
Haha yeah. That’s where I recently learned about it myself. They’ve been on a hot streak of some really fantastic videos as of late.
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I used to know this retired Air Force jet pilot guy. He had an asbestos glove he took. You could put it on and just bury your hand in the bbq coals, hand didn’t even get warm. It was like straight up magic.
Medieval kings used to do party tricks where they’d throw their (asbestos) tablecloth into the fire to impress their guests, and then have it pulled out and relaid on the table