u/dty6 u/wideawakeuk u/sempersupra

Glass is made of sand.

It's extremely hard, but exceptionally brittle, so it cracks.

When it does shatter, it does so very quickly, requiring special series slo-mo cameras to even begin to capture the crack forming.

Glass is protective because it is chemically inert. Next to nothing reacts with glass. Fascinating, huh? that such a brittle thing has no equal in how immune it is to chemical reaction.

Aside from that, depositing metal chemically onto a pane of glass creates a mirror. This, too, can shatter.

Glass is used to contain things. It's chemically inert nature enables it's use in this endeavor. No material has been as important to human development yet so readily disregarded in history. Even steel requires glass in order to collect the slag and impurities from the molten metal. In that way, glass can also be a sponge.

This is why we can dye glass many different colors, and it still be chemically inert. Lead was used historically to give glass a deeper, pearlessence while locking in the lead and keeping it from tainting the contents of the glass.

Potions are kept in glass vials, like the one that makes Alice shrink in size in Alice in Wonderland. Corks are used to seal these vials.

Finally, nuclear explosions blast the land with so much heat that stone, sand, and gravel turn to glass.

We call old CRT Televisions "Tubes" because the cathode ray tubes in them are what provides the layered distribution of light necessary to form a picture. I'll let you expound on how tubes and pipes are similar when it comes to the "flow of information."

There is also the recent movie, Glass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_(2019_film)

Finally, glasses are what you wear on your face to bend light such that things come into focus. Lenses are what they are called, but the idea goes as far back as magnifying glasses and even can include Sun Stones from the Viking Days. In the early 1900s, the nickname for them were "cheaters."

Glass is also considered "liquid sand" even in its solid state.

So, let's put it together.

Glass is often is used to hold liquids (information), but can crack and shatter almost instantly. Glass can by dyed any color the mineral/metal world permits. You can see through glass unless the light hits it just so. Glass is chemically inert, so the contents of it will never cause it trouble. Glass is what is left over after a nuclear explosion (nation-ending blackmail being used). Glass is used to make lenses, which can help you focus on things and find details you'd otherwise miss.

So what is glass?

My guess is that glass, as a mineral/material to be used, is analysis.

Analysts are "glasses wearers." They're the ones who crunch the numbers and look for details others may have missed.

But it isn't necessarily an individual. Many people can "wear glasses" at different times. Some can even be "put in a bottle", which is another way to say they are being "looked at."

The Looking Glass, for example.

https://qalerts.app/?q=looking+glass

Glass, in generalities, is anything that is undergoing analysis.

A glass bird, for example, would be a messenger who is being looked at. They can no longer block the light, and every detail of them inside and out is apparent. A glass bird is useless. Too heavy to fly, and can't hide the messages being sent. If it is struck in flight, it will shatter and that's that.

You don't want to have "glass bones." It means you're weak, obviously, but it also means that you're clumsy and prone to injury. That's not good for the Cabal.

Anyone under investigation is under the glass. If pigs are detectives, where might we see pigs getting crossed with glass, seeing how analysis is up their alley?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggy_bank

Piggy banks. Glass Detectives.

Now, there's a use. I'll go over that another time. I'm still grappling with it.

Keeping on glass, for now, consider comms with Hillary Clinton.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/05/13/why-did-hillary-clinton-wear-those-glasses-after-her-concussion/

After Benghazi, and her "what does it matter, now" testimony, she was under the "lens."

To show the Cabal that she was being analyzed, she wore glasses. As soon as the team was confident that they had gotten away with their crimes, the glasses come off.

So, if you see someone with glasses, just assume they are being investigated HEAVILY, and not only by detectives, but by hackers, journalists, paparazzi -- the whole sha-bang.

That's what I got for now.