One of the sources suggested in our Meta conversation yesterday (State of the Soylent: Community Roundtable) was the physics blog Cocktail Party Physics, which had this neat video, How to Cut String with Your Bare Hands in it.
It's reminiscent of the sort of thing Mythbusters liked to reveal.
Thanks to tonyPick!
(Score: 2, Informative) by pTamok on Wednesday November 09 2016, @09:11AM
For those who don't want to load the linked website with all its tracking, it actually links itself to a YouTube video here:
https://youtu.be/pbelhLT5veE [youtu.be] - Cutting string with your hands
It's actually more fast destructive fraying of string with your bare hands, but it gets the job done.
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Wednesday November 09 2016, @11:57AM
Posting a link to a tracking Web site that is not youtube, in order to avoid tracking, is ironic.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday November 09 2016, @12:14PM
Yes, it is.
It was not my intention. Sigh.
That is the URL generated by YouTube itself when I right-clicked and chose 'Copy video URL'. https://youtu.be/pbelhLT5veE [youtu.be]
The actual YouTube URL is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbelhLT5veE [youtube.com]
Apologies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:20PM