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  1. L'Evil Fish's Avatar
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    (Original post by 05sykesd)
    Just because it can be peeled apart layer by layer, and if you fold paper up so much it deforms the paper and doesn't look too good, have you ever seen the trick where phone books are interleaved and because of the friction caused by the intermolecular forces between the pages (and because there is so many this effect is multiplied) they cannot be pulled apart, can do some cool stuff with paper
    I did see something once where single sheets of news paper were rolled up really tightly by a machine and could be used to build fairly big, really strong structures, like the size of a room which you could climb on.
    I suppose it isn't used much just because its unconventional and if it got wet that would be fairly bad for the structural integrity of any paper building.
    Oh, and they make the candy lolly pop sticks out of tightly rolled paper and they are fairly strong.
    Im not some kind of in the closet paper fact lover btw i just know a lot of fairly useless things lol
    Woah! :O that is awesome! someone should invent waterproof paper... And it could be awesome(r)
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    Re: 'Concepts that blow your mind' thread
    Headphones that don't tangle up in your pocket... Retractable coil headphones

    How's that for a mind blowing concept :pierre:
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    Re: 'Concepts that blow your mind' thread
    (Original post by shadab786ahmed)
    Woah! :O that is awesome! someone should invent waterproof paper... And it could be awesome(r)
    Straw is a very good material for building houses.

    How do I know?.... QI told me... :holmes:
  4. L'Evil Fish's Avatar
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    (Original post by Dmon1Unlimited)
    Straw is a very good material for building houses.

    How do I know?.... QI told me... :holmes:
    I'm building a house of straw.. In a hurricane free zone... Or even wind free zone...
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    Re: 'Concepts that blow your mind' thread
    (Original post by Bollo's Lovechild)
    How do spiders defecate? :dontknow:
    I-I-I have no idea... :eek:

    Do they breathe?
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