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That’s how an MRI works by the way.
They shove your body into a giant electromagnet then turn it on.
All the protons in your body suddenly allign in the same direction.
Then they tweak your atoms with another magnet to sort of pull them in another direction.
They then let the magnet go and all your atoms reverberate with an electromagnetic signal which is caught by a special scanner and shows up on the computer as a neat image.

arkady,
Yeah, there’s a nice globe available that stays suspended that way.
I always liked that one.
It’s neat to see things defy gravity.

There’s a metal scrap yard in Brooklyn off the Belt Parkway, Cropsey Ave. Exit. Just before going over the bridge to Neptune Avenue.

They use a large electromagnet there attached to a crane.
Sometimes I’ll go to the Home Depot next door to pick up an item. If I have time, I’ll sit in the car and stare at the giant magnet pick up five cast iron radiators like they were paperclips.

Very cool.

Yeah for the finance and legal losers down here chained tour desks, it doesn’t much matter that we’re in a wasteland – but for Vogue, GQ, vanity fair, allure, Bon appetit employees a there’s gonna be some issues.

Where’s Mariska going??? There can’t be a better offer out there. Don’t these celebs realize that 80% of new shows gat cancelled.

Hell, she could stay on L&O and in15 years it could be Law & Order: Brooklyn heights Old peoples Unit

I always assumed ballers were too busy balling to take a full lunch.