• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    I don’t suppose your uncle knows what happens to those magnets that come out…?

    You know. Asking for a “friend”. (Okay so this hypothetical friend maybe likes to play with magnets in a totally harmless way….)(edit, yes I know how dangerous they are…. I’ll make sure my “friend” is careful….)

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      17 hours ago

      The primary magnets will be super conducting magnets. Unless you have liquid helium (or liquid nitrogen, if your lucky) to cool it, it will just be an interesting rock.

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        10 hours ago

        There’s a facility a few miles from me that makes the LN. used to work at a facility that had a tank farm served by them. Their driver liked to smoke while purging the liquid hydrogen tanks.

        And not like, walked over to the smoke shack, nope. right there next to the exhaust vent.

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        23 hours ago

        Promises promises….

        (In the immortal words of some fire-performer-dude at RenFair, “don’t do it at home. Do it at Grandma’s!”)