I'm being mansplained to on Facebook and it's the funniest thing ever. a guy is telling me how watches can't work without electricity, it's not possible even if they're wind up, that power needs to be stored in a battery. I'm trying to explain to him about springs, but he doesn't understand I'm dying 😂.
@Tattooed_mummy Well I mean sure I in fact know of three in my own town but none of them are anywhere near my home and I'm not going to catch a bus to visit the sundial to check whether it's time to catch the bus!
Dudes need to learn to recognise when they should just limp out of a conversation with their tails between their legs.....
@Tattooed_mummy@darklyadapted@mpjames I think the pendulum is used to regulate the movement - most long case clocks still require winding. The pendulum doesn't store energy, it uses it up but it's the weight / length that can be adjusted to control the speed of the clock mechanism.
@Tattooed_mummy Ha, I laugh at him. He clearly hasn't considered the possibility of a valve-based watch which would not be affected by an EMP. Kids these days. 🙄
@Tattooed_mummy It might be like the kids who have no idea that you can run a very usable database on paper cards in filing cabinets, or that people used to be perfectly fine with not being reachable by phone for their entire life.
@Tattooed_mummy It’s even funnier than I imagined… Now I want to see that guy’s take on how other things work - like windmills or hydro turbines. I’m sure he knows!
@Tattooed_mummy , in this statement this guy is skipping something very badly.
Hand watches with quartz , some of them can charge from our own hand movements. Yes, sounds amazing and they are really not cheap gadgets. As far as I’m familiar a person have to open them super rare and only for their maintenance which include only the change of the oil which is in some specific parts.
So he has no enough visibility. This is without electricity, without any power or charge.
@Tattooed_mummy I love the notion that an EMP is the only thing that could come between us and electricity. ice storms? anarchy? corporate malfeasance?
@Tattooed_mummy Could you please subpoena Clock Guy to come over here and make him fiddle with my mantle clock until its beat is right? I forgot to wind it last night and have been messing with the stupid thing all morning.
@Tattooed_mummy it's made my day too ... I work on these non existent watches and clocks all day ... giggles ... maybe I don't exist ... Spooky ... giggles
We called them self winders, or automatics. Moving our watch arm did whatever winding does, winding them up. No batteries. If we didn't wear them for a day or so, they wound down, but could be restarted by shaking - and or manually winding. Mine was a fancy 21st gift (18th?).
They were cool 😎
Batteries came later, but I recall a mass jump to digital around the time mine and the wrist it was on were broken in a "sorry mate" crash
@Tattooed_mummy tell him that the battery was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1799 that the spring watches have been used since XV century and the tower clocks in the XII century...
@Tattooed_mummy did you know that batteries also need clocks. There are no batteries that work without tiny clocks inside. That's why smartphones can tell time.
@Tattooed_mummy Lets wait till the mansplainer hears about cars "back in the day" being crank started. He'd then go "No!! Batteries are needed to start cars"
@Tattooed_mummy we are watching one of those sci-fi plots where we no longer understand the technology that we all depend on every day unfold. and it’s scary.
@Tattooed_mummy
Amazing. There were NO clocks before electricity! Ask him when he thinks Big Ben was built. Admittedly Big Ben uses counterweights rather than springs...
Tell him about this really cool video you saw on YouTube that shows how to install a "revolutionary" free-energy machine in your car. It's fueled by water and big auto doesn't want anybody to know about it.
Then link him to a video on the laws of thermodynamics 😁
@Tattooed_mummy Priceless! thanks for the laugh this morning. I told a man recently that mansplaining is when you have to explain something to a man ... super funny. rather empowering 😜
That's peak audacity right there: a 21st-century male
confidently, incorrectly updating a 21st-century person on medieval tech via ancient misogyny.
:eyeroll:
@Tattooed_mummy I was at a fancy event once. (Only once, I'm actually poor. And ugly.)
There was big name watch company debuting their new timepiece. They gave us all wine and beer. And then they gave each of us a watch action that we could take apart and try to put back together.
There was a surgeon there that did pretty well. Being in field IT at the time, I took one mostly apart and mostly put it back together. The jewels were kind of cool. The screws made laptop screws look huge. Basically, it was a really small 3si, if you get the joke.
And then I took it apart again. Only this time they let me open the spring assembly.
The cover of that sonuvabitch shot halfway across the room. The spring was taller than I am and I stand 6 ft.
Anyway. All that to say: If there was a generator in there, I didn't see it.
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