how things are made?

[NightLinks]

Have you ever wonder about how something is made? Right now i wonder now the hot dog bread is made. How they make the cut inside the bread and how the bread is stuck together.

Is there something that you wonder how it is made?

[-=C-ROC=-]

Where do babies come from?

No but seriously I want to know how plastic explosive is made.

[Jack]

The hot dog buns I would think they bake it in certain shapes and then partially cut it.

I want to know how programming is saved on circuit boards and whatnot in computers.

[Drake]

hot dog bread is baked like normal bread buts its not as tall. then most bakeries bleach the bread to make it white. how its cut should be self explanatory just by looking at it.

plastic explosives consist of its primary explosive material, a plasticizer and a binder. to create it you combine the primary explosive material in a slurry form with the binder which is dissolved in a solvent and is later evaporated.

my questing is the same as jack's. i have wondered the same thing for years and have found almost no solid explanation for how it works.

[ryan]

Originally Posted by Jack

The hot dog buns I would think they bake it in certain shapes and then partially cut it.

I want to know how programming is saved on circuit boards and whatnot in computers.

most "programming" is stored in non-volatile memory. and its easier to think about it in a physical manner (i.e. punch cards) then move over to an electrical manner.

so in the old days, computers used punch cards to store programming. I'll keep it simple and we'll talk about binary punch cards. the card is made in a precise format with a grid on it. each grid represents a "bit" can either be punched or not punched.

the card in and of itself means nothing. the core of how a computer works is the way it decides to translate those bits to "instructions". and while one computer's design might say that 7 non-holes and then a hole translates to "sleep". this same message might corespond to "reset register number 1" on another computer.

once you've got the hole thing visualized. you then say "wow how do we get away from these cards".... from there we use magnetic media. the actual messages are the same (is this hole punched or is it not punched translates to is this bit magnetized or not). this can be imagined visually by taking eight nails and using direct current to magnetize them and using alternating current to demagnetize them. a strong magnet is all you need to read the bits at that point, and the smaller your cobalt peices the smaller your magnet needs to be. you can visualize in your head the strong magnet being waved just above the bits and the ones that it makes contact with are "on".

now that you can "store" and "read", the tricky part is processing those coded messages. once again, the code itself is abstract and only means anything to the computer.

[Cloud]

Lol Ryan, I knew right after reading Jack's post that the first person to would respond with an answer to it would be you :P

Oh, and I would never like to know how any of the food I eat is made. C-ROC let me know about that baby thing when you find the answer though.

[Sharkbait]

Um bleach the bread after they bake it? I don't think so

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Sharkbait

Um bleach the bread after they bake it? I don't think so

bleach is not just a noun, it can also be used to describe a prosses of taking color out, ect... they dont use the bleach for washing clothes, but some chemical that takes the color and unfortunately the nutrition out of bread to make it white. some companies do this to take out flavor and make the taste and texture more smooth, others do it because it just looks better. take a look at whole grain bread and a slice of wonder bread. if you were a kid wonder bread would look much better then brown, grains whole grain bread.

[The Verge]

I want to know how Musical instruments are made, like is there a Tuba factory somewhere... and if so would they give out tours? I wanna visit, it would be so sweet!

[Ki11j0y]

I want to know how Splenda is made. Supposedly it's a modified sugar molecule that is somehow similar to chlorine. And then we eat the stuff.