2026-09-27 22:28 UTC
Replies (13)
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@T156@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 03:22
But how would you stop the car? If you lifted the magnet up, the car goes along with, and then you’re suddenly in space.
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@4am@lemmy.zip 2026-09-28 00:08
Switch the magnet for a carrot and the truck for a donkey, it’s way simpler than you tech bros are making it out to be.
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@CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-27 23:07
The real reason is because the magnet is trying to pull the car. Have you ever tried to pull a car? You’ll find it impossible even in neutral. But you’ll find out pushing it is much easier. You should instead magnetise the shell of the car, then hook to its back a magnet with the same pole as the car’s back.
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@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 05:04
I’m more of an EDM guy, myself
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@SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2026-09-28 05:26
Silence brand
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@RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 01:19
Replace the metal arm with a drone, and were getting somewhere. Like, literally.
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@Doom@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 06:09
I love that apparently additional metal has to be added because the truck itself is made out of so much plastic and other nonsense that it wouldn’t work with a magnet on its own.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-09-28 07:58
you will get a blindspot, so accidents will happen quite often.
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@Flower@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-28 07:59
It’s the right idea. The trick is to also use an electromagnet. A few of them. Put them in a circle. Switch on one of them at a time so the magnet moves to the electro magnet. Then switch of the one electromagnet and switch on the next. Now you have a magnet spinning. Use that to mine the wheels. Alternatively have a road full of electromagnetic in a linear fashion. That works too.
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@hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 08:08
That’s clearly an Acme design. It’s meant to break.
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@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-28 08:16
If you give the arms legs, and it runs by itself, then bam! It works.
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@mkwt@lemmy.world 2026-09-27 23:15
Mumble, something. Magnets do no work. Mumble, mumble.
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@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2026-09-28 09:47
My tax preparer randomly started telling me about how he’s invested money in a guy that is developing a “reactionless space drive” that works basically like this drawing. I was fighting the eye-roll when he added that the guy solved all the problems he was having with the design by asking ChatGPT. I started to explain how ChatGPT works then thought better of it. Easier to just find a new tax preparer.