This feels like someone tried to explain electromagnetism to him and his takeaway was that, like electronics, magnets can’t get wet.
New York City writer Fran Leibowitz said this of Donald Trump. “You don’t know anybody as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”
I don’t remember the details, because hell if I’ll waste my memory on that, but I do remember he was talking about an electromagnet, and insisted that it would stop working if sprayed with sea water.
It’s not as outrageous as the literal thing he said, but it’s still quite dumb.
Maybe he has a point, but there’s probably some organization that knows how to keep electrical systems running at sea. Maybe they could help the US Navy out with this.
Nah, he didn’t have a point. It is still stupid in any way you look.
It’s not some “those people know what they are doing” thing, there’s absolutely no problem to find there. If the wires weren’t insulated, they wouldn’t work in a coil at all.
Still, it’s not at the level of “everybody should just inject bleach at their bloodstream”.
I’m joking. It’s just as dumb as his bleach idea. The USN keeps several nuclear reactors running at sea all day every day.
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Now they want to install these “transporters” on the latest flagship. Can you believe it! Transporters. That don’t work in an ion storm. Space is full of ion storms! They’re useless. I talked to a guy named Reg down in engineering. Good fellow, really smart, knows what he’s doing. I asked him, Reg, which would be better? Transporters or shuttlecraft? “Shuttlecraft” is better according to Reg, the man who knows all about how these things work. Transporters! Ha! Pour a cup of water on them and they stop working, and you have to be a Zephram Cochrane if you want to know how to fix them. Shuttles are what you want, solid tritanium alloy, that’s what you can trust.
The sad irony here being that the actor who portrayed Broccoli is, himself, a card carrying nutbar.
Who would have thought that Murdoch from the A Team might not be stability incarnate?
Who are we pretending to be here
I don’t know where that came from, but it was probably just some cranky old admiral who’s going a bit senile while everyone waits for him to retire.
From a post I made a few months ago.
You made me look this up, I hadn’t heard about it. Step on a lego.
(good post)
Didn’t I see this a few weeks ago or something?
Are we getting reposts already? We’ve made it!
Not here, but possibly back on Risa
Lol. This has really come full circle as I am posting things that were sent to me by a friend of mine that doesn’t use lemmy.
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Holy crap, it’s actually true.
The quote, when talking about the carrier Gerald R. Ford (which does not have magnetic elevators, btw).
They had almost a billion dollar cost over on the magnetic elevators. Think of it, magnets. Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets. Why didn’t they use John Deere? Why didn’t they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere
Who are we talking about
The Cheeto Mussolini with the mierdas touch.
Yeah that doesn’t help at all
Oh, I guess I didn’t get it. This actually kind of annoys me. Is this a political sub now?
Sometimes science intersects with fiction, sometimes it intersects with politics.
I don’t think discussions about the viability of magnets in space travel belongs in a political sub. Not sure what point you are making…
Man I loved old trek but the new stuff is just so political now
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Yes, there should be a markdown for sarcasm
Independently of political ideology, Trump is a not-too-bright con man and grifter. I honestly don’t get why people are so enamoured with him, he’s pulling their legs right in front of them and they only give him more money.
