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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:33PM
Thanks for the summary.
So in other words, one can crudely 'saw' rope using another piece of rope as a friction device. This is like how I 'cut' a coat hanger in half by bending the wire back & forth 100 times until it heats up & snaps.
Article's title should be renamed to exclude the word 'cut'.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday November 11 2016, @01:37PM
That would be a fatigue failure and its not temp dependent. Rope doesn't fail in fatigue you can bend it back and forth all day.