I guess those spinning magnetic pills one puts in beakers over a magnetic hot plate in chemistry labs are all an empirical hoax then.
average physics student vs POTUS 47
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Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
They’re my fave bit of lab equipment. That and the Vortex because I must touch it.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Those are stir bars.
That they’re magnetic is propaganda to push magnetic field bunk to sell more so-called “magnets”. Stir bars are moved by phlogiston, which is why the liquid medium is often heated in tandem.
Generica@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
well… to be fair…
pmk@piefed.ca 12 hours ago
Whenever I think about magnets I remember this Feynman interview where someone asks him why magnets behave the way they do, and he says that to answer a “why"-question you need a foundation where something is agreed to be true, and it seems like for electromagnetic forces we end up in " because that’s how the universe is apparently”.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Yeah,. Each time we think we’ve got it, there’s another hole to dig deeper.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
First Juggalo president
Sergio@piefed.social 18 hours ago
whoop whoop! !juggalos@lemmy.world
SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Feynman must be
rollingchanging the spin orientation in his dhe grave.arcine@jlai.lu 8 hours ago
I wonder if we could engineer some material that does fulfill his spec. Magnetic in air, loses magnetic properties underwater, regains them when out of the water…
echodot@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
An electromagnet with no waterproofing. Stick it in water, it shorts out, once it dries out it starts working again.
arcine@jlai.lu 26 minutes ago
That’s fine but it would be better if a partially submerged device also functioned partially. And I said material specifically because it’s lame if it needs power.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Smart people will always admit when they aren’t sure about something.
Idiots always know everything
Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 hours ago
is that true? Do magnets not work underwater
Photonic@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Well, electromagnets don’t work when they short-circuit in water…
prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 10 hours ago
He is stupid, yes. But I think he might have been talking about electro magnets that get damaged when not properly protected. It is about the aircraft carrier that used it as a new launch system. Water, saltwater at that and there were some problems reported. I am sure the engineers are smart but a new system always has problems. Orange brain goes “bad tech” orange mouth goes “blaaargh”.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You’re doing the same bullshit that a bunch of idiots did all over media for years, when you hear trump or his ilk talking shit out of their ass, you immediately go “but if there was a sane normal person there what could they say”, and report on that, and this makes it as if there was a normal person there talking. It’s a sanewashing and it is a problem.
Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Yes of course. That is the reason why you can put magnets under your foreskin under water and have nothing to fear under water, like getting hurt when metal comes nearby /s
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
Looks like slop, eww
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 18 hours ago
At best you’re preaching to the chior. At worst you’re wrong and it’s not A.I., and you just look foolish. Your comment is a waste of bandwith either way. I’m tired of literally every thread having someone yelling “slop” in it.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
And I’m tired of the fucking slop. Not posting slop is how you avoid unnecessary bandwidth.
qualia@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ironically, you’ve left your mistaken comment sit up here for 7 hours now. #Hypocrisy
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
How am I mistaken and how does “ironic”, or “hybocrisy” apply? O.o
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
is that… did he… did he really say that?
ignotum@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Per Newsweek article
Incoherent rambling like usual
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 23 hours ago
How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?
echodot@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
What the tractor people? Are they particular experts in magnetism?
marius@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Dude sounds like chatgpt 0.1 beta
nialv7@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
behold, the shining beacon of freedom and democracy
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Incoherent rambling to us fucking poetry to the demented led paint chip eating maga voters
jdr@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
He said he would drop the glass on the magnets, not put them underwater. You can demagnetize a permanent magnet by violently striking in the absence of a background field.
I’m not saying he’s good, but I don’t think he’s entirely wrong.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
At this point you can’t really tell whether something is satire or a quote from the orange president.
marcos@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
He was talking about electromagnets at sea ships… Because the sea-water would short them.
But then, it’s almost as stupid as the short version.
over_clox@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
This is retarded as well. I once repaired an undersea $10,000 cable for like $600.
Like bitch (orange menace), pay people what they’re fucking worth, I was worth 3 times that much, if not more…
SatansDaughter@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Unfortunately he did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJufrrsaIks
qualia@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
And just in case anyone thinks that’s AI, ABC News vetted it as being true here (in the body, not the video). I know why voting records can’t be public, but I simultaneously wish they had to be too. As an appropriately-colored scarlet letter.
Eldritch@piefed.world 21 hours ago
When ever you think something sounds too stupid even for trump. No you didn’t.
His stupidity is his defining characteristic among his voters. For the wealthy and powerful, he’s an easily manipulable rube. For the poor saps he says the same stupid things they think and say. He’s just like them, so relatable!
luthis@lemmy.nz 22 hours ago
It sounds shocking until you remember Americans are dumb as shit. I have to keep reminding myself of this to make any sense of the absolute dystopian nightmare that somehow they support.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
had to look it up. aparently yes, 2 years ago