Man, I bet that’s gonna work out just great for you. Hopefully it’s just fraud and not a disability…

I’ve learned never to let my guard down, but I just can’t figure out how this is Loss.

I was thinking of the RCC tiles, probably should have considered that the white ones would just be health problems city. But the carbon fibers in the RCC ones are bound pretty completely in graphite, so from all the reading I just did (please help me I desperately need a job all this free time is going to kill me) it should be safe to eat those so long as they’re not reduced to, say, a fine dust. Ground down to the consistency of cornmeal though, I can’t find anything that indicates it would be a particular risk?

I think we can work with that, I’ve got a couple shuttle O-rings (not those ones) you could absolutely consume without issue. It’s probably not good to eat sharp parts like screws, but chunks of the heat tiles could be put in a pepper mill and used as a topping that way, or as a filler in a dense baked good like a scone. You could also eat any of the shielding foils, the gold foil used to protect against radiation especially would be totally safe and quite decorative.

like a truck

Who wouldn’t love to tuck into a big bowl of Mac & Cheese on their deathbed?

It’s like a less offputting cauliflower, I really recommend it. It’s both beautiful, and quite tasty.

“Orange romanesco”

He was going for "look at how this incredibly complex textured surface looks like it’s just an outline now isn’t it wild???" but failed to realize that a big pile of bullshit painted black just looks like… a big pile of bullshit painted black. It’s almost impressive how boring his ideas were. “Look the corner is triangular wooOOoooOOOooo”. He didn’t even go with something meta, like a scale model of his super reflective Bean sculpture coated in the stuff.

Just such a fuckin’ waste that vapid asshole was the artist that got to play with the stuff.

I award you the official title of “More Creative Than Kapoor”! It’s not a unique title, but it’s still one to bear with pride.

“That sounds like actual investment into the art. Howabout instead I vantablack a heap in the middle of a room, leave it uncovered an let people walk around it? Same effect but soooo much less work for me, Anish Kapoor’s straw-filled bodydouble”

Edit: My charming partner has pointed out that literally everyone that hears about Vantablack comes up with more interesting applications than this shit.

examples:

• Playing around with the ambient reflected light to create images on the otherwise textureless black background
• Do a darkroom, have people walk through it on a plexiglass sheet suspended above the void
• Get statues of people performing elaborate sex acts on eachother. Paint them black. Put them against a black background. Call it “censorship” or something.

Bam. 30 seconds of brainstorming. And those are ignoring all the cool ideas about playing around with emissive light effects in a room with no reflections.

This is drama from a decade ago so don’t take it as gospel: Iirc, the contract Kapoor signed with Surrey gave him the right to enforce the patent when used in art or aesthetic design applications. I can’t remember if he sues as an involved party on behalf of Surrey or if he somehow has the right to sue directly, but the effect is the same. Basically Surrey didn’t want to deal with enforicng it, and signed over that as part of the exclusivity deal.

The effect is also completely ruined if you handle it, and the broken off nanotubes from handling it are a serious health hazard. It’s expensive, dangerous, extremely fragile and almost impossible to clean.

But like mostly, having seen “Anish Kapoor” (which is the real name of the installation where that dickhead debuted his vantablack art), it… sucks. It’s impressive in photographs, incredibly lame in person. And, it can’t be cleaned without ruining the coating! so the dust from all those people builds up and just ew. You can see overlapping outlines, in some cases you could pretty clearly see the shadows from the contours of the coated object because of all the accumulated dust.

(also, and just on a personal note, he took nine years and did absolutely nothing conceptually interesting with it. Seriously it was the early-2000s 3D movie of art. Just one gimmick, repeated over and over with no change to the formula. “Look, it’s black”. It felt more like an ad for the lab that developed the coating than an art exhibition). It would have been cool if he’d developed the process, but we all know he didn’t, so it just fell so comically flat.)

The joke is that OP is trying to discourage other people from reporting the shooter by implying that any promised financial reward is simply a ruse.

… Honestly it’s a noble enough goal, I don’t see much need to debunk it.

I think it’s just regular old photoshop.

Oh god, I can’t wait to see this reposted as actual evidence by that one uncle ffs…

Usually you see it for toolchests and generators, but it’s not uncommon to see things like portapottys hoisted up to prevent people tampering with them while nobody is at the site (also keeps a load on the sheave, which I was told is important if a wind starts up or similar). You don’t want someone coming in and dumping whatever old garbage in there, like for example Charlie Kirk’s exsanguinated corpse.

One of their pieces of evidence is literally just “Ukraine posted a video with visible landmarks” and I think they just forgot to write the second paragraph where it explains how that’s proof it’s fake. What a bizarre article.

Well that’s… needlessly hostile?

Vegans are aware of the damage the supply chain does, hence “buy local” being such a common phrase and the push to support small local farms. I’m not sure what you’re accomplishing besides hilighting that capitalism is an awful economic structure that incentivises profit over environment, which sure good message, but most people choosing to adopt such a culturally despised practice are going to be aware of the externalities already.

What’s it like, knowing that you’ve just peaked?

“This number has been disconnected. Please hang up now and try again…”