who decided lefty-loosy, righty-tighty? just curious.

who decided lefty-loosy, righty-tighty?

just curious.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    to the stupid questions general with ye

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    clockwise like the sun
    tale as old as time

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >clockwise like the sun
      No?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >zoomers never had a sun dial.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      but the sundoesnt move clockwise, it rises in the east and set at the west, which would make it counterclockwise if we looked at the earth from the south pole

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >living on the southern hemisphere

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >not using the center of the galaxy as your reference point

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    God told Moses

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is the Catholic view the Presbyterian believe Jesus decided the direction

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Old as time. Right handed people are more common, its easier to tighten things to the right. Simple as.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it is probably the opposite in australia

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      checked, but isn't it for-real opposite in gas fittings?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Only some are left hand threaded. If you look at the nut on the regulator it will have notches on the corners if it is left hand threaded, no notches is right handed.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Only some are left hand threaded. If you look at the nut on the regulator it will have notches on the corners if it is left hand threaded, no notches is right handed.

        for me its lefty-locky righty-releasey

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the words decided

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    how long until some metric butthole comes tromping through here talking about how radians are "better" than degrees

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Radians are better in calculus/higher math, but really they should be using tau, not pi, but pi has too much momentum behind it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >but really
        apparently only 1788 microfortnights

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It follows the right hand rule. Make a thumbs up with a closed fist. Your thumb points in the direction the screw will go your fingers point in what direction you rotate the screw.

    There's many different laws and physical phenomena that follow the right hand rule as well.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      so why didnt they make it the left hand rul

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Because you can never trust those sinister bastards.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Kek

          https://i.imgur.com/S8ZVPKy.jpg

          The fundamental building blocks of our universe follow the right hand rule. As above, so below, brother.

          Arbitrary as frick, and probably backwards. Ben Franklin, a known dimension jumper, was left handed. To make this “right hand rule” work all you have to do is deliberately misunderstand how charge works, then make everyone else follow your backward ass rules.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >like charges repel
            >electrons are negatively charged.
            >if they negative electric charge flows from - to +
            >charge positive flow is from + to -
            Makes sense to me

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            https://i.imgur.com/S8ZVPKy.jpg

            The fundamental building blocks of our universe follow the right hand rule. As above, so below, brother.

            It follows the right hand rule. Make a thumbs up with a closed fist. Your thumb points in the direction the screw will go your fingers point in what direction you rotate the screw.

            There's many different laws and physical phenomena that follow the right hand rule as well.

            >Arbitrary as frick
            It is, what the 'right hand rule' is derived from is the cross product of vectors. Two vectors crossed results in a third vector orthogonal to both. In the right hand rule, this orthogonal resultant vector is represented by the thumb, while two fingers (index and middle) represent the vectors being operated on. The left hand rule is just as valid, but the 'right hand rule' is an ergonomic mapping to a cartesian coordinate system, which is right handed.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Arbitrary as frick
            Oh, and of course in the context of this thread, screws are simply threaded right handed as well. The other poster seemed to be implying there was non-arbitrary underlying cosmological underpinnings to the right hand rule, which is moronic.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The fundamental building blocks of our universe follow the right hand rule. As above, so below, brother.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Have you ever heard of the left hand rule for electrons? It's not a technique your professors would want you know about.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >For electrons.
            We're not the navy school of electronics.
            We follow the charge, not the particle, which in reality hardly moves at all.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >nooooo you're not the navy, you have to model current with the opposite charge moving in the opposite direction
              Have you never thought about what a backwards ass convention this is? That the only reason this is even a rule is because 300 years ago some idiot decided that the charge left by a piece of fur on glass he would call negative? We have dug this convention so deep into our science that it it is inescapable. Tell me, why is the charge of a proton any more fundamental than that of an electron?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                because it works homie, go back to being a worthless "ideas" guy.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You use your left hand if it's a left handed thread

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Unless you have severely deformed thumbs, mine points upwards not right.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Whoever threaded the thing.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This

      Probably easier to thread down the shank than up it

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The muscles for supination are stronger then the ones for pronation so it's easier to drive a screw in clockwise with your right hand than counter clockwise

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Have fun changing your miter saw blade

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if you do it wrong, you can have it both lefty-loosy AND righty-loosy

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    part of an ancient pagan homosex ritual that christians appropriated

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Geometry. Lathes turn anti clockwise and have the chuck / headstock on the left because the tool gets pushed down towards the ways, and people are right handed generally. So when you make a screw by cutting towards the headstock it produces a right handed thread.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You know, I've always heard the "people are generally right handed" answer, but the one you gave feels more satisfying.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ....The reason a lathe makes them this way is because people are right handed..

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Lathes are right-handed.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The left liberates, the right oppresses
    Poetic, you could say

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      fall apart vs keep together
      perspective

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      So Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Kim il song are right wingers now.
      >t. Everything you've been taught is wrong.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Right hand rule

    Stick thumb up and curl fingers

    Follows how we do maths for xyz

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Literally just use google
    https://gizmodo.com/why-screws-tighten-clockwise-1639456879
    >By the mid-16th century, Jaques Besson of the French court had invented a lathe that would cut a screw, although it took another 100 years for the process to take off. The modern lathe was later created by the Englishman Henry Maudsley in 1797, and with it, screw threads could be cut with great precision. Despite this, there was no uniform system for either screw sizes or threads.
    >This was remedied by Maudsley's apprentice, Joseph Whitworth (1803-1887), beginning in 1841 when he presented a paper advocating for a uniform system of screw threads to the Institute of Civil Engineers. His two-pronged suggestion was simple: (1) the angle of threads should be standardized at 55 degrees; and (2) the number of threads per inch should be standardized, although they would vary depending on the diameter of the screw.
    >That the screw would turn to the right when being tightened was likely already a well-established principle and is thought to be because right-handed people are stronger when they screw clockwise (supinate), and the vast majority of people are right-handed (between 70% – 90%). (See: Why Some People are Right Handed And Some Left Handed)
    >In any event, Whitworth's idea was popular, and soon after he suggested it, the British Standard Whitworth, with its rounded roots and pyramid thread crests, was adopted throughout England, the United States and Canada by the 1860s.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How did you make a /misc/ post without mentioning anything political?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it's the pepe, always a dead giveaway

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >lefty luciferian
    >righty "tie"-"t"(suit and tie and cross)
    Simple as

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