This giant eight man tricycle was indeed a promotional stunt, used to promote “VIM” tires made by the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company, around 1896.It takes eight men to propel it, and was built
Thats wrong. The entire thing doesn’t cross link. Vulcanization increases the polymer chain lengths until it crosses into being more of a solid. Polymers are like big balls of spaghetti and longer noodles make them more solid.
Fun fact: due to the Vulkanization process, the rubber in tires is a single massive molecule.
Wow, that’s an exceedingly fun fact!
Thats wrong. The entire thing doesn’t cross link. Vulcanization increases the polymer chain lengths until it crosses into being more of a solid. Polymers are like big balls of spaghetti and longer noodles make them more solid.
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Breathing and blinking are controlled by the autonomic nervous system, but now you’re doing both manually.
Joke’s on you. That trick stopped working on me years ago. I learned how to manually automate my normally automatic bodilly fumctions.
Does it help with the game too?
You can always see the tip of your nose; your brain just ignores it.
Except in the dark.
Now that’s cool.