A Berlin based urban exploring and history blog, that occasionally dabbles with short youtube videos. We love traveling by train in and around Brandenburg.
where peaople get those? they cost effing 100s each? why none make some out gurilla glass? and a video kind told how they did it so guess if anyone had a lab we could make it?
Like the video you likely saw said- there's probably not commercial incentive for glass companies to make glasses out of this gorilla glass-type surface treated stuff because they wouldn't sell as many over time due to less breakage..
I'm assuming you dont know the history of this glass. Superfest glasses were made via ion exchange method (same as Corning Gorilla Glass) with an aim to make a 5 times more break resistant glass but resulting product turned out to be 15 times stronger. They are almost indestructible. There are many pubs and bars in Berlin and other parts of Germany that used to be East Germany where they still are using the glasses they bought 40 years ago. The company was forced to shut down in 1991 due to almost zero sales because consumerism doesn't profit from indestructible products. Coca-Cola, when presented with Superfest glasses in a trade show, said, "Why would we buy indestructible glasses? We make money on our glasses."
They really should have marketed the glass to bars and made a small niche they could later turn into something bigger. I feel like it was just poor decisions on their end.
This should be placed under protection and restored. But no - like so much of Berlin's past, the Berlin authorities do not consider it worthy of protection and prefer to let it rot. In many of these so-called German "politicians' " minds the adage "out of sight, out of mind" is the politics of preference. That is why there were plans to demolish the Olympic Stadium among others, and the majestic Deutschlandhalle was demolished years later, despite being a listed building. (Both of these structures were planned or built long before the Third Reich.) Some German politicians call this progress, I call it cowardice and symptomatic of Berlin's weakness to come to terms with it's dark past.
auf dem gelände fand 2009 das grünanlagen techno festival statt. ich erinnere mich noch, dass man da auch in die häuser rein konnte, da das gelände so weitläufig war, dass es keinen ordner interessierte wo man sich aufhielt.. in den beiden hangars war jeweils ein floor und die feuerwehr ist über das gelände gefahren um die festivalbesucher abzukühlen.. einfach nicht zu bezahlen..
Sehr schön gezeigt 😊👍 !!! Deine Videos gefallen uns immer super 👌 und die Musikauswahl war auch wieder passend. Mach unbedingt weiter so!! Viele Grüße von "Nature Check" 👋👋
Sehr schön gezeigt von Dir 😊👍 !! Es ist immer wieder traurig, dass Menschen so interessante Dinge zerstören müssen. Warum können manche Leute nicht einfach solche Bauten genießen und nur anschauen bzw filmen 🙁!? Mach definitiv weiter so 👍. Abo ist raus 😉!! Viele Grüße von "Nature Check" 👋👋
I lived in one of this soviet buildings till almost the last days of soviet base existence (I see it still stands). Many legends were circulating among us those days about some secret underground training facilities which left since the time of Wermacht. I was a kid those days and there were many old capital German buildings (former barracks I believe) with a large cellar network and I remember it was very interesting to explore them. You could go into the basement of one building and out in 10 minutes of exploring from the basement of another building, so I think those legends were not totally groundless.
Da werden Erinnerungen wach! Habe in "Dolly" aka Klosterfelde bei den Startbatzen gedient. EK83/2Gruß an Holger Evert, Uwe Graßhoff und Puti Thieme...und alle andern
I agree. Efficiency of the free markets my ass. All that capitalism does is do planned obsolescence. Meanwhile socialism makes durable products like this glass right here
@@Maaartyyy the losing jobs part is a huge load of bs, people would still need more glass for other applications, just not on the unnecessarily high amounts of today, the environmental impact of disposable glass outweigh the potential loss in sales.
@@Maaartyyy People losing jobs is completetly irrelevant. Go find another job. Not to have such product just because some people would have to find another job is an idiotic, dumb reason not to have the product.
@@Maaartyyy Maybe you should do an analysis on how many billions of dollars would be saved in the cost of energy and labor needed to recycle and produce more glass. Energy and money we could've used elsewhere for trivial things like, I don't know, climate change or preparation for a pandemic.
@@jerrygu5316 climate change hoaxes and plandemics? How about better more meaningful examples that dont involve playing into Government's sick little games?
