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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
One of the biggest problems is the nylon type material used to make the modern tough laces, it has a slippery quality to it. Yes it solves or partly relieves the age old problem of frayed/snapped laces when you're in a hurry but now you have to keep stopping and re-tying the damn things several times a day.
So I look for laces that are less prone to this and accept that I may well replace them a couple of times in the life of the shoe at a time to suit me.
If the research just did some good like inventing a tough reliable lace that is not low friction then it may be money well spent, I suspect not.
I'm glad I do engineering as a day job - it means I get my fix of this sort of thing during the day so I'm free to focus on music at night.
P.s. flat laces FTW!
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
as @thomasross20 said, flat laces. seem to be the answer.
As it's a (virtual) Friday, let me run it off topic.
The "pencils in space" story is an old myth. Both Americans and Russians used pencils initially, then both sides moved over to pens which they bought commercially. Felt tip pens were tried too but apparently don't work well for some reason or another (I forget why).
I know we all love laughing at NASA, and we all like a funny but invented story, but NASA didn't waste billions on space pens...
Love the shoelace story though.
I can believe the NASA pen thing, but that whole space story? nah I'm not buying that.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Well it's important to bear in mind the space pens they bought in only work on FLAT surfaces
Flat flat. All parts of the paper must be moving at the same velocity.
(Sorry OP, I've gone off on a rage and phuq'd up the original thread. But I hate this urban mythery.)
By the way the actual paper is quite interesting:
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royprsa/473/2200/20160770.full.pdf
Yes it assumes no nearby steep gravitational gradients or anything.
(I knew when I wrote it that someone would call me out on that assumption. But my rambling had already outstayed its welcome by then so I gave up.)