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In Reply to: RE: 'The Martian': Science and Duck Tape posted by Billy Wonka on October 02, 2015 at 13:54:58
Sheesh, do I have to do all the thinking 'round here?
-RW-
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He is from the south. Evidently they don't have ducts there.
Our language continues to be corrupted. Nowadays you can be correct to use either 'duct' tape or 'Duck' tape. But Duck Tape is a brand. The other, which predated it, is now generic.
-Steve
Get back to you about that...
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
tho it was obviously originally "Duct" tape, it's now being branded and sold as "Duck" tape, so..., either could apply.
K
...I took it as a tongue-in-cheek reference because he used it so many times and was very deliberate about it. Consider too the story involves a lot of ingenious improvisation, maybe too much of it..... and as we all know, duct/duck tape is the universal enabler of modern improvisation.
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You must be thinking of Duck Tape, which is a very poor version of good duct tape (e.g. 3M, which the pros use, me too). I don't even know why I keep Duck Tape around; it does come in colors though, and the fluorescent ones are sometimes useful.
Real duct tape *does* stick very well to ducts...hard to believe, eh? They didn't just pull the name out of their ass. It also kind of explains why Duck Tape *isn't* called duct tape.
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I have learned not to travel without a roll of it, whatever one may choose to call it.K
Does 'duck' tape stick to ductwork?
Edits: 10/02/15 10/02/15
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