Have we reached the pinnacle of knife development technology?

So at some time, far in the foggy future , darkest matter and even darker energies have been harnessed to create blades that totally obliterate matter !

The first big batch gets shipped to eager early adopters with super deep pockets .

Nobody bothers to try to decipher the alienglish instructions .

Catastrophic personal injuries and property damage ensues . None of which is covered by your insurance !

Lawmakers rush to bane everyone except themselves ( and their major campaign contributors) from using this technology ever again . :(
 
Wild Willie said:
My goodness, lighten up dude. We were all having a bit of fun and you came along and sucked all the fun right out of it.
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Sorry it just riles me up when people say ignorant things and then try to play it off like it's your fault for pointing it out. It spreads their ignorance like a cancer. We'd all be better off if people would just own up to their mistakes.
 
Guy McVer said:
Sorry it just riles me up when people say ignorant things and then try to play it off like it's your fault for pointing it out. It spreads their ignorance like a cancer. We'd all be better off if people would just own up to their mistakes.
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Kettle......meet pot.
 
DocJD said:
So at some time, far in the foggy future , darkest matter and even darker energies have been harnessed to create blades that totally obliterate matter !

The first big batch gets shipped to eager early adopters with super deep pockets .

Nobody bothers to try to decipher the alienglish instructions .

Catastrophic personal injuries and property damage ensues . None of which is covered by your insurance !

Lawmakers rush to bane everyone except themselves ( and their major campaign contributors) from using this technology ever again . :(
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Someone gets this thread, and it's intent.

Thanks Doc. 🤣
 
Wild Willie said:
Yes science is great, until it isn't. You know what doesn't ruin the world? Fantasies about lightsabers, self sharpening steel, and Terminatoresque shape shifting knives. Like in the good old days about 4 hours ago.
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Fine, sorry.

I spoiled your fun with reality. That's my bad. I will try really hard not to do it again. I sincerely will.
 
Guy McVer said:
Fine, sorry.

I spoiled your fun with reality. That's my bad. I will try really hard not to do it again. I sincerely will.
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I deal with enough reality while I'm in reality. This is the internet, and a thread to speculate on what the future might hold for knifedom. If you'll recall several hundred years ago the reality was the world was flat, Earth was the center of the universe, and the only elements were earth, air, fire, and water.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
 
Guy McVer said:
Hate to burst your bubble but have you looked a periodic table at all? Do you understand what it represents? Those are atoms. They go up in mass and complexity as you progress through the table. All the basic slots are filled and there is no room to put a new simple element between the existing ones. It is physically impossible. Do you have any idea at all what it would take to create a new stable element at this point, and why it wouldn't remotely be feasible to make knives out of it?
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Dark Energy, Dark Matter | Science Mission Directorate

What is dark energy? More is unknown than is known — we know how much there is, and we know some of its properties; other than that, dark energy is a mystery — but an important one. Roughly 70% of the Universe is made of dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 25%. The rest - everything on...
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Science has achieved an incomplete, but somewhat useful, handle on less than 5% of the stuff of our universe .

Most important thing cutting edge science shows us is how pathetically little we really know yet . ;)
 
So, about that self-sharpening steel (aka, terminator morphing metal - aka, TMM).....

I've sent an email to Crucible, Sandvik and Bohler (for starters) to see who wants to get in on the ground floor of this game-changing steel innovation.

I will let you know their responses. 🤣
 
shane45-1911 said:
I'm thinking more along the lines of Terminator-type morphing metallic material. Semi-organic in nature, and can realign its molecules at will.

500 years from now when someone necro-vives this thread on BF, people are gonna say "Jeez, that Shane guy was on to something...how could he have known???" 🤣
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*technically* steel is an organic material because it has carbon, in chemistry something is "organic" if it has carbon.
 
Will we see the same level of technological improvements in knifemaking that we saw from 1922 to 2022 by 2122? Perhaps not. Knives are similar to many fields, where if you charted technical progress since, say, 5000 BC, it would be a very flat line for a long time, then a slight gentle slope, and then a massive hockey stick when you hit the 20th century. I don't think that rate of innovation can continue forever.

On the other hand, I think of things that are fairly recent and still mind-blowing. CPM steel was first made in 1970 but I don't think it was common in knife-making until the 21st century. H1 is a nearly carbon-less steel. Vanax uses nitrogen instead of carbon. What about ceramics? Carbon nanotubes? I have no idea because I'm not a metallurgist, but I'm thinking there are still some innovations out there.

In short, I have no clue.

But it's fun to speculate.
 
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