{"id":45,"date":"2025-04-16T01:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talesofmanythings.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-04-16T01:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T01:41:12","slug":"shatterproof-my-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talesofmanythings.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/shatterproof-my-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShatterproof\u201d, My Glass!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Gorilla Glass Meets the Rock of Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cracked screen protector. It doesn’t look that bad. It was designed to take a blow.<\/p><\/div>\n

It was a day like any other, if your \u201cany other\u201d involves crawling through tight spaces in service of search and rescue. (Yes, that<\/em> again. It’s kind of my thing.)<\/p>\n

On April 6, in the middle of a mission, my phone decided it was tired of being held, loved and kept safe in a warm pocket. It yearned for freedom. For flight. For a rock.<\/p>\n

It slipped of my cargo pants pocket out during a crawl through a crevice. One moment I was focused on the mission, the next? Clink.<\/em> My 196 gram technological marvel of a phone, outfitted with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, and wearing a proud 9H tempered glass screen protector, like armor, fell about twenty-five centimeters<\/em> \u2013 or less than a pound falling less than a foot, if you rely on the Imperial Standard.\u00a0 (I will reminisce in a future blog about living on the Imperial Standard, when the rest of the world went metric.)<\/p>\n

The phone landed face-down on a rock.\u00a0 We can refer to this event as modern electronics playing chicken with gravity.\u00a0 There was a single winner.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s do the Math, Shall We?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the physics lovers out there (you know who you are), here\u2019s the gritty calculation:<\/p>\n