Modern Lathe Story

[GSPV]

This a YouTube video that tracks the advent of the modern metal lathe to the exponential growth in per capita income. Pretty awesome.

 

[rammac]

As soon as I heard "...crazy awesome..." I had no interest in listening any more.

 

[GenePoole]

Well, the narrator does seem like he's trying to appeal to the younger crowd with his lingo, but it is still worth watching.

 

[GSPV]

There is another on metrology that I thought was very interesting.

 

[shoot4fun]

There is another on metrology that I thought was very interesting.

They didn't talk about using a metal lathe to "turn a hurricane" did they?

 

[hogpatrol]

Waaay back when people were emigrating to the colonies from England, machinists were prohibited from leaving. Hands were checked to look for metal slivers. Eventually machinists made their way here and with memorized blueprints and skills made machines that produced cloth and other raw materials in to finished products. Before that, raw materials were shipped to England and then returned as value added goods. It kept us poor, selling low and buying high. Today we have a similar situation. We are shipping raw materials to China and other Asian countries and they are shipping finished, value added goods back to the U.S. We've come full circle. We are now a quasi-colony of China and the process of taking raw materials and adding value by manufacturing to increase the standard of living, as it has been since the industrial revolution, has now all but stopped and those same foreign countries are now enjoying an increase in their standard of living. Boys & Girls, we've been sold down the river by politicians on both sides of the aisle. The irony of it all? WE are still trying to maintain a high standard of living by piling on a debt no one in their right mind knows we will ever pay. Sermon over, we now return you to our regular programming.

 

[GSPV]

They didn't talk about using a metal lathe to "turn a hurricane" did they?

Dang. I was sure that I spelled that right.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

They didn't talk about using a metal lathe to "turn a hurricane" did they?

Did you think he meant meteorology?
This is metrology:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrology

 

[shoot4fun]

Dang. I was sure that I spelled that right.

You did sir. Just a little Alabama redneck humor.
Since @Dusty Stevens felt the need to provide me with the definition I would assume you aren't the only one that "didn't get it".

I DO know the difference.

 

[GSPV]

It never occurs to me to confuse the root words metre “measure” and meteor “high up in the air”. It helps that I frequently work with the USAF Metrology Lab.

My head doesn’t work that way. But, autocorrect sure does!

 

[shoot4fun]

It never occurs to me to confuse the root words metre “measure” and meteor “high up in the air”. It helps that I frequently work with the USAF Metrology Lab.

My head doesn’t work that way. But, autocorrect sure does!

The problem is you just don't know how to "talk southern".
But, in all honesty, you really don't metrology nor meteorology uttered much down here.
LOL

 

[GSPV]

The problem is you just don't know how to "talk southern".
But, in all honesty, you really don't metrology nor meteorology uttered much down here.
LOL

You know that I was born and raised in Mt Juliet, TN, right? No traffic lights, one gas station, one grocery, one bank, and five churches? A graduate of MJHS and Middle Tennessee State University? I can talk Hillbilly Southern with just about anyone. It just doesn’t come across in writing.

 

[jr600yd]

Tru, yankee boys totally lost.

 

[GSPV]

Tru, yankee boys totally lost.

I didn’t know “damn yankee” was two words until we had cousins from NY visit when I was 10 or so and now I are one.