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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41760 on: December 26, 2013, 09:05:43 pm »

Halfway makes me wonder what other sorts of "natural" materials they've made keyboards out of by now. Scrimshaw? More... esoteric... bones? Reinforced leather? Gemstones of various sorts? Obviously there's a lego one, somewhere out there. The list goes on, really...

Not curious enough to actually go look, though. Ha ha.
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« Reply #41761 on: December 26, 2013, 09:22:29 pm »

Synthetic (I don't believe that natural ones in the sizes needed are common) diamond might be feasible, although somewhat expensive as compared to plastic.
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« Reply #41762 on: December 26, 2013, 09:24:49 pm »

Could almost certainly do a mosaic/conglomerate construction with natural ones. There's hella' craploads of the stuff, last I checked, most being held off the market to keep prices up. Do believe ones to do the base body (not keys, etc.) out of a single stone are pretty rare though, yeah.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41764 on: December 26, 2013, 09:40:12 pm »

Could almost certainly do a mosaic/conglomerate construction with natural ones. There's hella' craploads of the stuff, last I checked, most being held off the market to keep prices up. Do believe ones to do the base body (not keys, etc.) out of a single stone are pretty rare though, yeah.

You'd need pretty big ones to make keys out of single stones too.  I'm quite sure that if ones large enough for that were common, you'd be seeing more rappers and wannabes with rings that look like they came out of a Looney Tunes cartoon. Mosaiced chips would be pretty easy, though.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41765 on: December 26, 2013, 09:41:14 pm »

What I wouldn't recommend is keeping a panda as a pet. If the elves dont bash down your door and skin you alive for keeping an endangered species as a pet, the panda may decide to maul you for... whatever, I guess.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41766 on: December 27, 2013, 01:00:43 am »

Today I've become cognizant of something that I was aware of for a long time in my life, but never recognized.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41767 on: December 27, 2013, 01:23:08 am »

Since when did bamboo have an ever-shrinking supply? o.o

edit: bamboo apparently takes only 5~7 years to reach full maturity, which is a lot shorter than most trees. Plus, bamboo forests are rather densely populated, and it has an outstandingly fast growth rate.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41768 on: December 27, 2013, 01:24:13 am »

Since when did bamboo have an ever-shrinking supply? o.o
These things spread naturally where I am so...^
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41769 on: December 27, 2013, 01:28:25 am »

shit im growing bamboos out here in the desert.

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« Reply #41770 on: December 27, 2013, 01:33:56 am »

Since when did bamboo have an ever-shrinking supply? o.o

edit: bamboo apparently takes only 5~7 years to reach full maturity, which is a lot shorter than most trees. Plus, bamboo forests are rather densely populated, and it has an outstandingly fast growth rate.
None of which means the supply couldn't be shrinking, though I couldn't personally say whether it is or isn't... couldn't find any numbers on proliferation. It grows fast and pretty plentifully, but that wouldn't stop it from being reduced in overall coverage due to the standard human stuff. Urbanization and general deforestation being what they are, bamboo coverage (especially anything that's not being protected by commercial or preservation interests) probably is shrinking. I'm honestly not too aware of any larger (not weeds, kudzu-like stuff, etc.) plants that are increasing in population (so to speak) these days, especially in the proverbial wild -- though, being fair, they're probably out there and I just don't know of 'em. It'd be interesting to see a global time-lapse map or somethin' for plant species coverage and density...

We're an extinction event for pretty much everything, not just animals, really...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41771 on: December 27, 2013, 02:08:02 am »

edit: bamboo apparently takes only 5~7 years to reach full maturity, which is a lot shorter than most trees. Plus, bamboo forests are rather densely populated, and it has an outstandingly fast growth rate.
Firstly: True this. You can see bamboo grow (I mean, not exactly 'IT GROWS BEFORE MY EYES' but more on 'check it in the morning...check it at night; minute difference, but there it is, depending on specie').
Also I believe bamboo is a grass and not a tree. :3

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Since when did bamboo have an ever-shrinking supply? o.o

edit: bamboo apparently takes only 5~7 years to reach full maturity, which is a lot shorter than most trees. Plus, bamboo forests are rather densely populated, and it has an outstandingly fast growth rate.
None of which means the supply couldn't be shrinking, though I couldn't personally say whether it is or isn't... couldn't find any numbers on proliferation. It grows fast and pretty plentifully, but that wouldn't stop it from being reduced in overall coverage due to the standard human stuff. Urbanization and general deforestation being what they are, bamboo coverage (especially anything that's not being protected by commercial or preservation interests) probably is shrinking. I'm honestly not too aware of any larger (not weeds, kudzu-like stuff, etc.) plants that are increasing in population (so to speak) these days, especially in the proverbial wild -- though, being fair, they're probably out there and I just don't know of 'em. It'd be interesting to see a global time-lapse map or somethin' for plant species coverage and density...

We're an extinction event for pretty much everything, not just animals, really...
This is also true. Just because bamboo is awesome at growing capabilities...doesn't mean that it is shrinking as a generality. Like most forests, lots of land is being...changed, for man's needs. But what I've heard is that bamboo, in general, is losing ground to the other flora of the environment. :( It's vague because I haven't done research recently on it.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41772 on: December 27, 2013, 04:43:20 am »

I didn't say bamboo was a tree. What I did do was compare bamboo growing rates to that of trees, which are a dwindling resource.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41773 on: December 27, 2013, 05:05:59 am »

Still, the keyboard seems silly.
It looks (and probably feels) nice though.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #41774 on: December 27, 2013, 05:57:50 am »

I have one of these mice, I won it in a contest. They're pretty shitty, but I've been using one for the past two years now and it only had to be welded and hot glued once. 3/10 still wouldn't  recommend.
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