Magnets. How Do They Work?
This video is worth the time it takes to watch just to see this guy’s homemade 2×4 apparatus to split supermagnets apart.
This video is worth the time it takes to watch just to see this guy’s homemade 2×4 apparatus to split supermagnets apart.
I like hanging from the ceiling as much as the next guy, but he really needs a better system.
Suction cups were all the rage for quite a while, but like everything else I adore, they seem to have gone out of style. I assume the sickening fart and pop every time you moved a limb was just too much for people, but I didn’t mind at all. Suction cups were effective, darn it. Just because you turn into a giant, annoying, raspberry machine doesn’t mean the cups weren’t working. On the contrary, the juicier the sound the suction cups made, the more securely you were fastened to the wall.
The real question is: how am I supposed to fly to Las Vegas, scale the side of the Fontainebleau building, break in through a side window using only a piece of string and a slice of lemon, evade security using only my wits, deactivate several silent alarms, hack into the mainframe for poops and giggles and plant a virus in their computer system, abseil into the main gallery to avoid a thin layer of laser traps across the floor, steal the world’s third largest crystal geode, escape, and romance several down-and-out super models using magnets? I’d be shot on sight trying to get through airport security wearing those silly magnet shoes. At least with suction cups you can lie and say there’s something wrong with you, and you need to apply suction to various parts of you body or you’ll die. Try doing that with magnets, smart guy.
OK, we get it. You like magnets. You really like magnets. You really, really like magnets. I find it unsurprising that you spent your childhood playing with magnets, because, of course, you’ve explained that you really, really, really like magnets. Other children might play with a stick, or a rag, or a broken bottle, but that wasn’t good enough for you. No, you needed magnets to hold your attention. …