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minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-21 year ago cement: mostly not rocks and mortar mix or whatever the fuck concrete: mostly rocks, mortar mix, and significantly stronger than cement. lava: literally actually just fucking molten rock also lava: buried thousands of feet deeper below millions, possibly billions of pounds of more rock concrete: weights about the same shitposting aside this would just spray incredibly small chunks of solidified lava everywhere, for miles.
minus-squareEvacuateSoul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoCement is the chemical that cements. Mix it with sand and you get mortar, add aggregate and you get concrete. Concrete is not only made with cement, if you swap it for bitumen, you get asphalt.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agothere we go. This is someone that cements.
minus-squaretacosplease@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoRight? Finally a concrete answer.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agodo love myself a good rocky foundation to base things on.
minus-squarebeebarfbadger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoOkay, but what if you push it down with both your hands? Lava couldn’t get out then. Checkmate.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agodamn, you got me there.
shitposting aside this would just spray incredibly small chunks of solidified lava everywhere, for miles.
Cement is the chemical that cements. Mix it with sand and you get mortar, add aggregate and you get concrete. Concrete is not only made with cement, if you swap it for bitumen, you get asphalt.
there we go. This is someone that cements.
Right? Finally a concrete answer.
do love myself a good rocky foundation to base things on.
Okay, but what if you push it down with both your hands? Lava couldn’t get out then. Checkmate.
damn, you got me there.