Demonstration of the compressive strength of glass: 180lb man stands on wine glass

[Slow]

From the PBS Nova program "Making Stuff" (Stronger).

Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWA2uy45ATY&feature=player_detailpage#t=2267s) the relevant bit. He starts with 4 glasses, working his way down to just one. Try this at home ;-).



Edit: skip to 37:47 if the link doesn't take you to the right spot.

[dOprah Winfrey]

Edit: Link now takes me to right spot. Weird...

Its quite impressive.

Thanks for the find Lowly Worm.

[Greymatter Glass]

very cool, watched the rest of it from there, the bit on the spider silk and spider protien in goats was interesting... not AS strong as real spider silk, but almost, and stronger than kevlar... I was spider silk gloves...

[Greymatter Glass]

link took me to the right place...

[Slow]

FYI, all four episodes (Stronger, Smaller, Cleaner, and Smarter) are on Netflix instant watch (that's how I found them). Cool science and tech, but the host is constantly "dumbing it down" and cracking lame jokes. Reminds me more of the Discovery Channel than PBS.

[J Howard]

lol, hand him a glass with a scratch on it!

[Kevin Bumble]

I watched that shit on the way to the DFO on the grey hound at 7 am



the nano shit was cool

[frillcappa]

Yea, I finished it off too, and damn, I thought that was really interesting, It makes me want like a spider silk bracelet or somthing

[Slimy-E]

unbreackable fishing line!