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Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
I'm still fucking amazed that I can just put my phone on a fancy circle and it sticks there until I pull it off. I've had that thing for like a year and it still feels like magic.
Also:
I mean, I was making an ICP joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
But yeah, people freaked the fuck out over "lodestones".
Some Greek 8,000 years ago found out sometimes a very special rock will always point in one direction if you allow it to spin.
No one had any fucking idea what was happening, but suddenly sailing all over the place exploring wasn't dangerous. No matter what, you could get back home.
Except there's insanely rare areas that have magnetic anomlys where it suddenly goes crazy for reasons you have no way to explain.
The man-hours over 8,000 years of various cultures figuring out magnets is probably higher than a lot of "big" discoveries, it took humanity forever to the point we can buy crazy strong temu magnets for $3 just to fuck around.