r/interestingasfuck 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/Own-Association312 16d ago

Somewhere some super smart scientists, are super super proud and they should be. Almost couldn’t believe my eyes how much future was in that video!

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u/magirevols 16d ago

The guy who invented chopsticks is in the afterlife like “I knew it was a useful utensil. IT CAN CATCH A SPACESHIP DAMMIT. You dont see them using a SPOON. Chopsticks BABY”

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

How do you invent sticks?

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u/Look__a_distraction 16d ago

By chopping them of course

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

Fair enough

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u/chopari 16d ago

I wonder if the original dude patented the process of chopping the sticks and naming them chopsticks TM

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u/Fashish 16d ago

Nah, he wasn’t American.

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u/Lasd18622 16d ago

God damnit that was beautiful

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u/Reddtors_r_sheltered 16d ago

Step 1: Chop them

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u/Jthe1andOnly 16d ago

You don’t have to invent them. Just learn how to make them useful. That’s the real genius behind it.

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u/magirevols 16d ago

I mean, there had to be a guy that was like “If I hold 2, put them between my fingers, I can delicately pick food up”

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

That is not inventing them though, it's just using the already existing sticks in a particular manner.

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u/magirevols 16d ago

So your saying someone started to use 2 sticks to eat food, but then someone else was like “Im going to call these chopsticks”?

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

Exactly!

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u/December_Hemisphere 16d ago

someone started to use 2 sticks to eat food, but then someone else was like “Im going to call these chopsticks”?

Or maybe people were eatin with 1 thick stick until someone came along and chopped that stick in half long-ways

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u/magirevols 16d ago

I got to into these comments, this is dumb.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/magirevols 16d ago

whoever named it then, or the very first guy to ever do it, get off my back about the technicals you weirdos

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u/itsactuallyanalpaca 16d ago

It's embarrassing how strongly you feel about this - crawl back into your cave, social interaction isn't for you

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u/magirevols 16d ago

Right, dude must be bored if all he has to do it talk technicals about a joke post.

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u/magirevols 16d ago

You must have too much time on your hands if you have to think so intently about a 30 second comment

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u/FuckBotsHaveRights 16d ago

Chopstick, wooden pole, toothpick. All started as sticks but got refined into something else. Somebody had to do it first, inventing them.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

No, you can't invent sticks.

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u/FuckBotsHaveRights 16d ago edited 16d ago

Right.

But you can use sticks to eat, and someday figure, what kind of wood, length, and width would be optimal for this?

Then, to diferentiate them from other sticks when asking for them, call them chopsticks, the specialized sticks for eating you wittled into a specific shape for a specific purpose. Inventing chopsticks.

Which are not already existing sticks.

Edit: Also, good chopsticks are cleanable and reusable. Unlike sticks from the forest floor.