The classic game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" has ancient origins. The rules are simple: rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper... and paper beats rock? The Waterjet Channel on YouTube decided to find out, going so far as to turn paper into a cutting disc. Can they do anything to a rock?
The "Rock, Paper, Scissors" wasn't that popular on our side. Here we settled things with "Pan y Queso", starting from half a block away... and always cheating. But one of the most surprising aspects of the game is its universal profile. For instance, the Chinese called it shoushiling.
https://old.neoteo.com/janken-el-robot-que-gana-a-piedra-papel-tijera/It supposedly entered Japan in the 17th century as a drinking game, taking the form of mushi-ken, with a slug, a frog, and a snake (frog-eats-slug, slug-poisons-snake, snake-eats-frog). Another variant was kitsune-ken, with foxes, hunters, and village heads, and at the beginning of the 20th century it arrived in the West as "Rock, Paper, Scissors".
Enough history for now. The rules of the game are clear, but the Waterjet Channel on YouTube has a doubt. Can paper really defeat rock? The answer requires a bit of creativity...
Rock, Paper, Scissors... with an Angle Grinder
After cutting a sheet of paper with scissors and destroying the scissors with a stone (after nine attempts), they created a cutting disc compatible with an angle grinder and... nothing. At first glance the rock seems too hard, so they replaced it with a block of sandstone ("technically a rock"), but the result was the same. At that point they used their hydraulic cutting machine to create a thicker paper disc, and all they managed to do was stain the sandstone surface with burnt paper.
The next alternative was to find something heavy enough to destroy scissors but cuttable by paper, and so they arrived at a block of wood. The paper disc penetrated the surface of the block about two centimeters, without disintegrating.
The final phase of this "paper-cutting adventure" included a piece of rubber, plexiglass, and a material used in building bulletproof cars. In all three cases, paper managed to make cuts, sacrificing several discs in the process. In short, no: Paper cannot beat a rock. What do the comments say? "Paper 'wraps' around the rock."
Source: The Waterjet Channel on YouTube
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