New and Exotic Materials Thread

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

I see so many claims that hemp could "save the world" while other natural fiber sources are mostly neglected. Maybe it's why some of the weed taboo will last for a while.

[freebeard]

The taboo has noting to do with its potential as a fiber.

Once past Prohibition, it can compete on its merits. That's what's happened in the Willamette Valley.

Willamette Valley Assured
https://www.wvassured.com
Willamette Valley Assured's mission is to develop a continuous learning system for the Industrial Hemp production industry. The early focus is to learn and provide support and training to producers and farmers engaged in the production of Industrial Hemp in its many forms.

Hemp panelists offer tips to Willamette Valley farmers ...
https://www.capitalpress.com/state/o...ba277b5bd.html
Hemp is gaining significant ground in Oregon after it was legally defined as an agricultural commodity in the 2018 Farm Bill. House Bill 4060 established Oregon's industrial hemp program in 2016,...

Nature's Cropland
https://www.naturescropland.com
By the 1970s this valley was the most productive grain, fruit and vegetable processing region in the world. Change started in the 1980s when most Willamette Valley farmers turned to growing grass seed for use in lawns and golf courses. Today the Willamette Valley grows 90% of the US supply and 50% of the world supply of grass seed.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

The taboo has noting to do with its potential as a fiber.

My point is, most of the times I hear some praises for hemp as an industrial feedstock, it's from some pothead who is more willing to smoke the weed. So it may seem harder to address this issue seriously from a conservative standpoint which could lead to a better acceptance of hemp fiber. On a sidenote, bushings for the pins of the eyebar chains of the Hercílio Luz Bridge were originally made out of hemp fiber, but I'm sure the replacement ones are not.

[freebeard]

...it's from some pothead who is more willing to smoke the weed. So it may seem harder to address this issue seriously from a conservative standpoint...

This is framing the issue. ...from a particularized point of view. Hemp was an industrial feedstock for rope, canvas, oils for paint and numerous other products long, long before Prohibition was initialized.

How about a Piano Black finish right out of a rattle can?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXpHBpA_5Q

Cool, huh?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Hemp was an industrial feedstock for rope, canvas, oils for paint and numerous other products long, long before Prohibition was initialized.

My objection is not to hemp itself, is to the idiots who ruin any perspective for it to be taken seriously as an industrial feedstock again insisting on the so-called "recreational" smoking.

[freebeard]

My objection is not to hemp itself, is to the idiots...

Why let them control the conversation? Are you weak and pathetic?

The fact is that industrial hemp and the psychoactive medicinal/recreational uses are at odds with each other.

It's a single (actually two) species that can express different epigenetics [IIRC]. If you let your pot females get preggers by a hemp plant, the result is ditch-weed.

The kind ganja is sequestered in grow rooms for protection. So the green fields of hemp can flourish and co-exist.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Why let them control the conversation?

They don't really "control the conversation", because there is no conversation at all.

The fact is that industrial hemp and the psychoactive medicinal/recreational uses are at odds with each other.

Even supporters of a serious medicinal use are at odds with recreational users. On a sidenote, some people in Brazil are already resorting to the judicial system intending to get an injunction and grow their own crops for medicinal purposes.

[oil pan 4]

Eh, not nearly as interesting as what the core of the earth is made of.

[freebeard]

The mantle has rising and falling plumes. The Earth isn't gravitationally perfectly spherical, leading to the possibility of Intermediate Axis Rotation.

[freebeard]

Eh, not nearly as interesting as what the core of the earth is made of.

Is this what you were speaking of?

www.livescience.com: Earth has a hidden layer, and no one knows exactly what it is

Strangely, when [siesmic] waves pass through the core from north to south, they travel faster than waves passing through the core parallel to the Earth's equator. No one knows why this is, Stephenson said, but it's a consistent finding. The technical term for this oddity is anisotropy.
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Stephenson and her colleagues brought together a dataset of about 100,000 earthquake waves that passed through this level of the core and applied an algorithm that searches for the best physical explanation of what's going on to explain the data. What they found was that in the inner-inner core, starting about 400 miles (650 km) from the center of Earth, the anisotropy in the slow direction isn't quite parallel with the equator anymore, but 54 degrees off.