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• Cheez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What if you had some sort of insulator, maybe a delicious layer of chocolate, making some sort of galactic wagon wheel?

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It could work… but you would need an adequate layer of vanilla creme to compliment the chocolate.

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    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Engineering is delicious.

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• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, it’s a DC current so would bleed off over distance anyway.

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• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well you could, but the resistance in a wire that long would kill it.

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