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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can remove that little tip from bus hammers and glue them to the noses in order to instantly shatter any glass like material that comes into contact with it. Allegedly.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really only for tempered glass like car windows. Regular glass would just get a little ding.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A little ding is enough to render a camera lens pretty useless.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A cracked lens still takes pictures pretty well without any visual artefacts

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Most lenses only care about the angular light distribution, essentially averaging over the lens surface. So a ding or crack would just add a tiny portion of grey or black to the entire image

Edit: This is for cracking the front protective glass of a camera lens. If an actual optical lens splits in two it will be misaligned and bad things will happen.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

that's true, good point

[–] deus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Allegedly allegedly allegedly

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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

So you allege.