Wait, he’s using a “Zajaxi” dynamo? Doesn’t Acme make dynamos?
Or we send Hercules after it and end it once and for all.
I caught that, but decided to run with it since this wasn’t meant to be a serious thread. And it’s apparent from the article that the intent was to test to destruction so the only surprise was how much past 11 they had to crank it.
Cool pics though.
Yeah, great pics. Bet it sounded great too.
Sorry I sounded abrupt. That may have come off as abrasively dismissive. If so, that was an oops.
Speaking of “how much past 11” I’ll offer this little gem in atonement: Hair Dryer (xkcd.com)
No worries. I didn’t take your post as anything other than an observation. But I’ll always take some xkcd.
Fucking Reynaldo!?! AGAIN!?!?!?!
You’ll get that on them big jobs.
Lay off Renaldo. I’m putting my money on Ricky. NSFW language.
Maybe they should’ve used a flux capacitor. They’re pretty cheap:
Many of the strongest magnets explode, not because they’re pushed beyond their limits (intentionally or otherwise), but because that’s how they’re designed to work: You start by building a more-or-less conventional high-strength magnet, then you pack a bunch of explosives around it, and then you implode the whole thing to squeeze the field lines closer to each other.
As an added bonus, the skills and expertise needed to do this sort of work are very similar to those used for building nuclear bombs, so it’s a way to make sure that ex-pat second-world nuclear scientists and engineers have gainful employment, so they’re not as tempted by not-so-gainful employment.
Is there a theoretical maximum strength a physical magnet could achieve?
Along the lines of a frictionless surface or a perfect mirror?
It turned them into pole dancers.