A mini rant interlude…
Magnet Haul-01
Originally uploaded by Airchinapilot. So with time to kill in Barcelona, I went to the movies. Indiana Jones and the tediously long title… I wasn’t expecting greatness, I’ve seen some reviews and Anne hit the spot with her blog entry. But, but…. BUT oh my the physics…
Okay, first… lead lined fridge, great find Indy. Surviving that rolling around, bouncing, tumbling and stopping very quicky. I think he carries a full body airbag in his man purse.
And worse, and this had me laughing out loud. The crystal skull itself, it’s magnetic, it can attract iron filings (or gunpowder it seems) from a looooong way away. The best bit though is it only attracts metal objects when the special effects guys remember. So as soon as they pull their guns/swords/knives/dogtags away, the magnet forgets about them like a particularly stupid dog. And even worse John Hurt had a magic anti-magnetic blanket that blocked all of the magnetism when it covered the skull.
Of course, I may just have missed the explanation because the film was in Spanish… but I don’t think so. I’ll wait for Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics to notice.
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As a child, I could never understand why, (as depicted in Eagle comic), you couldn’t levitate yourself by standing on a metal plate attached by a rigid pole to a piece of “super-magnetic ore”. (Often found lying around in Dan Dare-land).
And Hollywood still can’t.