Comment by doodlebugging | Hacker News Reader

Comment by doodlebugging | Hacker News Reader

>Some perspective on scale:

>• A toaster’s magnetic field is 300,000 times more powerful than the human brain’s field

>• The Earth’s magnetic field is 2,000 times more powerful than a toaster’s field

Sorry all. Does this mean that I should be letting my toaster handle the difficult problems I encounter in my life? Up or down? Lighter or darker?

Is it now potentially true that the old saying "dumber than a box of rocks" is actually a high compliment?

Since I have a lot, too many actually, of fridge magnets picked up on various vacations over the years plastered to metallic objects around my workspace, am I surrounded by artificially super-intelligent placards that spend all their time waiting for a properly formed query before they excitedly initiate a life-changing brain dump of knowledge that I could gain from no other source?

This article was funny. I am going to use this to poke fun at my vegan relatives when they attack my decision to continue enjoying bacon, steak, and tendies.

>I am going to use this to poke fun at my vegan relatives when they attack my decision to continue enjoying bacon, steak, and tendies.

I was with you until this part.

That's okay. I knew there would be a lot who wouldn't try to understand the dynamic at work in my family.

As an ordinary person, I got tired of hearing the back-and-forth discussions complete with subtle insults tossed at anyone who doesn't automatically toe the line that eating any animal products is bad while failing to acknowledge that plants may also have some level of situational awareness as a self-defense mechanism.

We have some great discussions about methane from cow farts, plants sending chemical signals to others to warn when you are mowing the grass, etc. Now I can add Venus Fly Traps with weakly magnetic fields that they generate when they slam the doors on unsuspecting insects.

I don't care whether you eat plants, animals, crayons, insects, or floor sweepings. I appreciate you not trying to impose your standards on me, demeaning my choices using arguments that only show your selection bias in how you define sentience in the plant and animal world. There's a lot we don't know about how things work on many scales and the science is fascinating.

You go ahead and eat your greens. I'll eat my mixed diet of meats, dairy products, fish, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and whatever else happens to make it past my lips. To each his own, it's all unknown. If dogs run free.

That's interesting info, I wonder if a toaster sized magnetic field would be enough to protect people from being irradiated in space?

I submit that we should test this to discover whether there is any real benefit to fresh toast in space besides the obvious vehicle for delivery of peanut butter and jam.

Based solely on the name, which conjures images of the origin of the radiation that we propose to study and potentially to reduce, I propose that we should use this toaster:

http://automaticbeyondbelief.org/

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