Feathers are a beautiful small marvel. This was a fun little video and I'm glad something so mundane and cheap and widespread gets to be featured a little bit. How they pop out of a bird is...
Feathers are a beautiful small marvel. This was a fun little video and I'm glad something so mundane and cheap and widespread gets to be featured a little bit. How they pop out of a bird is interesting too: they start as a tip of a shaft that is filled with blood, then less blood and kinda waxy, and then no blood and hollow and the waxy covering flakes off and voila! There's so much variation in how tough and smooth and watertight, or how soft and fluffy and light and warmth it can pack. So versatile in sizes and function and colour.
Makes our 3d printers and filaments look like crude garbage
(I wasn’t sure what group was best, please move it if there is a better group) Okay this video was actually mind blowing. I absolutely thought that cheap feathers were fake. I remember having...
(I wasn’t sure what group was best, please move it if there is a better group)
Okay this video was actually mind blowing. I absolutely thought that cheap feathers were fake. I remember having feathers that would be a continuous surface and then split when abused. I always thought it was plastic links breaking, not some actual microstructure of real feathers.
It's absolutely wild to me anyone thought these were fake. So one of the benefits of taking such an interest in like how things work, how things are produced, and just knowledgeable about the...
It's absolutely wild to me anyone thought these were fake.
So one of the benefits of taking such an interest in like how things work, how things are produced, and just knowledgeable about the general properties of things, it has let me from a very young age clue into things like this even when I never had first hand knowledge.
Like I never even considered they might be fake because of so many thought processes that confirmed they were most likely real. All from a very young age simply because I was super interested in how things worked and why.
First off, I had played with real peacock feathers and crow feathers when I was a kid. I specifically remember the keratin like hollow tube of the feathers. The craft feathers were smaller but had the same feature.
Second, I couldn't think of a manufacturering process that made sense to produce craft feathers, when real feathers and dye are so readily available.
Third, when using Elmer's glue and craft feathers, the dye came out and colored the glue. Real feathers wouldn't do that.
Feathers are a beautiful small marvel. This was a fun little video and I'm glad something so mundane and cheap and widespread gets to be featured a little bit. How they pop out of a bird is interesting too: they start as a tip of a shaft that is filled with blood, then less blood and kinda waxy, and then no blood and hollow and the waxy covering flakes off and voila! There's so much variation in how tough and smooth and watertight, or how soft and fluffy and light and warmth it can pack. So versatile in sizes and function and colour.
Makes our 3d printers and filaments look like crude garbage
(I wasn’t sure what group was best, please move it if there is a better group)
Okay this video was actually mind blowing. I absolutely thought that cheap feathers were fake. I remember having feathers that would be a continuous surface and then split when abused. I always thought it was plastic links breaking, not some actual microstructure of real feathers.
It's absolutely wild to me anyone thought these were fake.
So one of the benefits of taking such an interest in like how things work, how things are produced, and just knowledgeable about the general properties of things, it has let me from a very young age clue into things like this even when I never had first hand knowledge.
Like I never even considered they might be fake because of so many thought processes that confirmed they were most likely real. All from a very young age simply because I was super interested in how things worked and why.
First off, I had played with real peacock feathers and crow feathers when I was a kid. I specifically remember the keratin like hollow tube of the feathers. The craft feathers were smaller but had the same feature.
Second, I couldn't think of a manufacturering process that made sense to produce craft feathers, when real feathers and dye are so readily available.
Third, when using Elmer's glue and craft feathers, the dye came out and colored the glue. Real feathers wouldn't do that.