• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    This feels like someone tried to explain electromagnetism to him and his takeaway was that, like electronics, magnets can’t get wet.

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      10 months ago

      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.”

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        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.

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          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”.

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            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.

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      10 months ago

      The sad irony here being that the actor who portrayed Broccoli is, himself, a card carrying nutbar.

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        10 months ago

        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.

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    10 months ago

    You made me look this up, I hadn’t heard about it. Step on a lego.

    (good post)

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        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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    10 months ago

    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