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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

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Speaker 1: We're about to talk about mirrors. I set up it's

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Speaker 1: a SINCU. How are you Were you in the mirrors

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Speaker 1: growing up? Now that we said, you know, I did

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Speaker 1: it sccinctly, We're gonna just blow like three minutes, right, No,

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Speaker 1: I was asking you if you were in the mirrors

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Speaker 1: in the mirrors growing up? Yeah, I mean that didn't

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Speaker 1: every kid go through a phase where they're like very

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Speaker 1: obsessed with their looks and mirrors and things. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was into myself. I wasn't in the mirrors. They

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Speaker 1: were just means to end, you know. Yeah, But I

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Speaker 1: like I was reading this and I kind of was

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Speaker 1: just thinking myself and remembering laughing about I remember being

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Speaker 1: like fifteen and like stopping to look at mirrors anytime

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Speaker 1: there was one to see what looks like. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: now I just break them. I'd forgotten all about that

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Speaker 1: phase of my life though, until you just brought it up,

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Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, it's nice to be able to not

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Speaker 1: look at a mirror. Like some days. I'll go out,

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Speaker 1: you know, after getting ready in the morning, and I

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Speaker 1: have no idea what I actually look like. But I'm

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Speaker 1: so and this is um this cross pollination with an

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Speaker 1: earlier podcast. I suffered from body dysmorphic disorder so badly

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Speaker 1: that I don't really know what I look like anyway.

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Speaker 1: I think I look a bit like theme from taxidermia.

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Speaker 1: What's that? It's not plusant? Okay, well you don't my friend.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what he looks like, but I

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Speaker 1: can tell you don't look like him. I appreciate that, Chuck, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: do you want to hear what I had in store? Like?

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Speaker 1: I could not come up with an intro for this.

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Speaker 1: Let's Websters defines mirror. I'm kidding. I always going to

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Speaker 1: say something equally bad, though it was going to be

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Speaker 1: something along the lines with mirrors are ubiquitous. I've seen

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Speaker 1: at least six of them today. They weren't always that way, though, Chuck. Well,

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Speaker 1: it says in the article here the full length mirrors

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Speaker 1: have only been around four hundred years. That didn't seem right.

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Speaker 1: That's not right, No, um full length mirrors. There is

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Speaker 1: a type of full length mirror UM that has been

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Speaker 1: around for about four hundred years. Full length mirrors, as

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Speaker 1: far as I know, are mirrors capable of reflecting a

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Speaker 1: full image of a person, have been around since about

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Speaker 1: the first century a D. Actually, UM and mirrors us

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Speaker 1: using surfaces, polished surfaces to see our own reflection. UM

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Speaker 1: has been around since about six thousand BC. Yeah. The

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Speaker 1: earliest ones were found in Anatolia, Turkey, and they're polished obsidian. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a volcanic glass. Yeah, so it's it's dark. That's interesting,

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Speaker 1: but it's still produced the best reflection, I guess at

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Speaker 1: the time. At the time, I mean, you gotta you

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Speaker 1: gotta go with what you what we have to work with, right, Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but then after that they led them to um like

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Speaker 1: silver and bronze and copper, polished polished reflection spasics and chuck.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever held a hunk of

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Speaker 1: of copper or bronze I haven't, or silver I have. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's heavy, Yeah, it's real heavy. Right. So this actually

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Speaker 1: limited the size of mirrors for centuries, right, Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: then around I think the Middle Ages, we became capable

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Speaker 1: like mirror technology just takes a huge leap forward. Well true,

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Speaker 1: but not not super uh forward, because the sand was

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Speaker 1: And that was the process, um what's it called silver

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Speaker 1: same way or different methods, but the same same concept.

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Speaker 1: the Mason's very much so. Um. And if you were

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Speaker 1: piece of polished medal or something like that. Imagine like

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Speaker 1: really simplified it. It's also not coincidental that UM good

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Speaker 1: UM Filippo Brunus Brunelleschi. Nice Chuck, thank you for doing that. UM,

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Speaker 1: think it's one of the things that was always there.

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Speaker 1: We just stumbled upon it through mirrors. That's how we

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Speaker 1: well then, uh, And the mirrors were also used by

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Speaker 1: I wrote an article on archimedes death. Ray, Oh did

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Speaker 1: well it was legend though. They don't know if the

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Speaker 1: Archimedes thing is true. Right, we know that he invented

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Speaker 1: the water screw and let's saved countless lives. What's that

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Speaker 1: It's a way to deliver water from the ground top side.

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Speaker 1: Oh really yeah? Cool? You have to check it out,

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Speaker 1: the physics of whatever we're talking about any time it applies, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's true, and mirrors are definitely one of those times. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so Chuck take it away. Well, I can cover the

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Speaker 1: first part because it makes sense to me. The law

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Speaker 1: of reflection um Josh says that when you bounce a

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Speaker 1: those are totally normal. I don't have hair in the

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Speaker 1: Listener mail Josh, this is a little uh cool organization

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