• hperrin@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Usually there’s some sort of fantastical leap you can do from something reasonable to get to his level of insanity, but I don’t even see that here. Water has never had any effect on magnets, and I don’t know of any conspiracy theory that says it does.

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      10 months ago

      Pouring water on the electrical components of an electromagnet?

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        10 months ago

        Maybe that’s what he meant. But he’s talking about a magnetic elevator for an aircraft carrier. I’m pretty sure it’s designed to work while wet.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, I was just taking the challenge of trying to rationalize it.

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      10 months ago

      Maybe his reasoning is that they’re metal so they’ll rust?

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      10 months ago

      maybe he saw a gif of cooling magnets with liquid nitrogen to make them seem wet?