• marcos@lemmy.world
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    8 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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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

        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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          8 months ago

          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.