ButteryMonkey

Would it be possible to make powdered magnets work…? Not as an adhesive, probably, although that would be pretty neat actually…

Like I know magnets are magnets because of the alignment of many many atoms, but say you powdered the magnets, somehow kept them from clumping up (because of course they would) and then applied a low-level magnetic field (or something a magnet would stick to, maybe?) to whatever you were setting the powder in, could you hypothetically make a magnetic table or something with it?

Are there batteries in laptop charger cords? That doesn’t sound right…

My partner once sleepwalked into the kitchen to get food (bad habit of sleep eating, probably due to alcohol) and I just watched them because they were talking nonsense so I knew they were asleep. My sister was also a big sleepwalker/sleep talker, so this was fairly routine for me.

At the end they offered a plate and said “here, do you want some?”

They had unboxed a new wireless NES-style controller that had been sitting on the counter, plated the controller, and offered to me as a snack. Had no memory of it the next morning.

Been a running joke ever since when we try to decide what to eat.

Oh man now I’m imagining having two tanks set up side by side, one labeled “before” with the little prop suspended on fishing line somewhere around the middle of the water column, and a second one labeled “after” with a crushed craft little chunks scattered all over the bottom…

They probably have.

But if you came across a random bug, especially a big one like that, wouldn’t you assume other people already knew about it? I would.

I mean sure you might take a pic and send it to a few people, but they would probably also assume it’s known.