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uh, uh, Hey everybody. Welcome to Overdo. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew.

Andrew, what do you think the sharpest thing in the world is?

Oh, probably one of those like knives that cuss fish.

Fish skin?

Fish can be hard to cut.

It's not.

Yes, it is, well, okay.

So, it's hard to cut. Yes, fish skin very hard to cut yeah

one of those probably one is really fancy nice knives yes

yes so I Google this shout out to the knife websites out there.

The knife website.

The people selling knives who are like, hey, the sharpest knife is obsidian volcanic glass that you're probably not gonna buy because it is also,

yes it's three nanometers wide, but it's probably not practical and will break on you because you're a dumb dumb and yeah so

by our other sharp knives instead the other sharpest object is a tungsten needle, which is not a knife in fact, but a needle.

Right. With a sharp point that is an atomic, it is one atom in diameter. That's not very many.

And it can't cut anything it just shoots electricity at atoms to help us map them?

What's it?

So what is the sharpest thing that is still practical to use as a cutting

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