Only question with the blending, have they ever tried blending another blender (same model etc)?
OOOhhh blender recursion!!
Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
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#52Does this video series actually sell any blenders?
With that question in mind, BlendTec is the only blender company that I know of. Granted, I don't exactly pay much attention to the blender market, but I think that's the point.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
>What has been lost, apart from a bit of irreplacable time out of the lives of everyone involved (including me writing this comment and you reading it)? Short answer, we've gained entropy. Over time, entropy will be the end of us, and therefore it is our responsibility as lifeforms to hold it back wherever we can. Otherwise what's the point? May as well just give up on the whole spontaneously emergent complexity deal…
If we live long enough to be eventually killed by entropy, then I'd say we have officially Won. It's like when you get to the final level of Pac Man and it crashes.
Entropy is what kills every one of us. Entropy is what makes us "run out" of rare metals. There are a lot of ways for entropy to kill us that don't involve the heat death of the universe.
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#54I'm still waiting for the iFixit teardown. Maybe Google will send them one?
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#55a youtube link
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's advertising. Admittedly, I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I would imagine that the economic impact of this advertising is worth more than the cost for Google to send a CR-48 to be blended.
It might still be cheaper than some kind of elaborate ad with a lot of actors, scenes and stuff, and even have lesser environmental impact (one laptop is much less waste than, say, flight to some distant place to take the shots for an ad). So, yes, it can actually make sense. But still, I just don't like the culture which shows that it's perfectly ok to smash and destroy stuff just for pleasure and marketing. Imagine…
I find your second paragraph unsettling and it took me a while to see why. It's because, I believe, your premise is (mostly) wrong. The advertisement is effective because the culture does not condone destruction of perfectly good gadgets. Instead it makes us cringe, it's like burning a twenty; it's just not done. And that's why it's effective.
(Not that I'd give this an up-vote.)
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#57I find it somewhat ironic that this video will not play on my CR-48.
I wouldn't say that's irony- sounds to me like your CR-48 just doesn't want to watch the execution of it's brother.
lol reminded me of this:
http://www.jokeawhenever.com/archive/media/pictures/horror_m...
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#58I couldn't apply for one of these (though I really wanted one) because I'm not on the US, good to see them put to good use.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might still be cheaper than some kind of elaborate ad with a lot of actors, scenes and stuff, and even have lesser environmental impact (one laptop is much less waste than, say, flight to some distant place to take the shots for an ad). So, yes, it can actually make sense. But still, I just don't like the culture which shows that it's perfectly ok to smash and destroy stuff just for pleasure and marketing. Imagine…
It's just a bunch of atoms. It was a bunch of atoms before the manufacturers got to it -- mostly goo, some rocks, a bit of sand. They rearranged the atoms into a different order. Then Blend-Tec guy put it into a blender and rearranged the atoms again, now it's dust instead of goo. What has been lost, apart from a bit of irreplacable time out of the lives of everyone involved (including me writing this comment and you…
We can't just spontaneously arrange atoms for free. Turning, say, lead into gold is possible, but consumes a lot of energy for a very small result. Some transformations are effectively "one-way".
It's all nice to say "it's just a bunch of atoms", but some toxic compilations of atoms can't (without more "one-way" transformations to tap the available chemical energy) be easily transformed back into useful combinations.
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#60This is particularly awesome because my Cr-48 came with a piece of paper that said something like: "Do not crush, incinerate, blend (guess we'll never find out if it'll blend...), ...(several other things)..."
The full first paragraph of the Safety Notice: This product contains sensitive components. Do not drop, disassemble, open, crush, bend, bake, deform, puncture, blend (guess we'll never know if it'll bend), shred, incinerate, paint, bring to the moon, or insert foreign objects into the device. Do not spill liquids, rocks of any size, or food on the device. Do not expose the device to water, moisture or rap music. It k…
The entire thing (from Reddit):
