James Tour
speaker
1,512 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 15 Dec
James Tour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, we've got this wooden table here, and I know why this has the properties that it does.
I mean, when you have a tree, you can run a car.
right into the tree and the car's destroyed and the tree just stays there just fine.
I mean, why is that?
I know why this has the properties that it has because it has these carbohydrates, these polysaccharide strands that are held together by these hydrogen bonds and they will give a little bit.
And so you have this amazing impact strength on a piece of wood.
I mean, the common man on the street doesn't know that and I know that.
And I'm like, God, you're amazing.
This is just what an amazing piece of construction.
I mean, you take a piece of plastic.
I mean, after five years, the thing's starting to decompose, certainly after 10.
And you can go around the world and you can see thousand-year-old structures made out of wood.
And the wood is still there.
I mean, for God to have made a material like this, I work in the area of material science.
And so it makes you look at, God, you're amazing.
How do you do this?
And then you look at life, living entities.
I mean, how do you pull this thing off?
We don't know how to build like this.
There's a reason why we build robots.
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