Playing with Magnets

[EddMarkStarr]

Ah ha . . . I caught all you naughty boys playing around with magnets again!

Don't you guys know that if the magnetic field is strong enough you could damage something?

Well, I hope this video about the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory will teach all of you a lesson.

 

[gsdx]

Sure puts my Grade 9 science classes to shame.

As Spock would say, "Fascinating."

 

[Peloso]

 

[EddMarkStarr]

This is why science fiction writers don't like science. It's never as simple as having a powerful magnetic field pulling at the hero's spaceship.
The ship itself sets up a resonance that interacts with the magnetic source and varys by direction, speed and distance.

Sci-fi fans don't want a TEDtalk - they want photon torpedoes and green-skinned bikini babes.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

This is why science fiction writers don't like science. It's never as simple as having a powerful magnetic field pulling at the hero's spaceship.
The ship itself sets up a resonance that interacts with the magnetic source and varys by direction, speed and distance.

Sci-fi fans don't want a TEDtalk - they want photon torpedoes and green-skinned bikini babes.

Depends on the author.

 

[gsdx]

The Mythbusters Jr. busted a myth from the Breaking Bad series in which a junkyard electromagnet was placed against an outdoor storehouse wall in order to erase a hard drive. Not only did it erase the drive, it attracted all of the metal objects in the room as well as causing a number of metal shelves to collapse like dominoes.

The junior Mythbusters busted the myth.

 

[rareboy]

I do know that because of the filter implanted in my inferior vena cava...I can never have an MRI scan.

I keep describing it for people as akin to the scene in Alien where....