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How does this thing work? (wrong answers only)

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • MarieMarion@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When it’s hot enough, the blades start melting. As metal slowly drops, they get lighter on the inner edge (thinner part, melts faster), and start rotating because they’re not balanced anymore.

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  • foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It aligns itself with the magnetic field of metal of the stove and starts a transduction of capicitive resonation that interferes with the polaritive vibrations of the planetary magnetic field.

    This in turn creates a localized pulse of geomagnetic interference that the fan blades are sensitive to, and their shape works to create a single direction rotation that both pushes air and traps the interference and creates a perpetual motion at the same time.

    Brilliant engineering, honestly.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you considered becoming a star trek writer

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      • foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        LOL!

        No. I’d much rather watch, than tell, stories.

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    • jrwperformance@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you the inventor of the Retro Encabulator?

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      • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I want to know how they solve the issue with side fumbling?

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      • foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Don’t I wish!

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  • smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It doesn’t work. It’s an optical illusion, but is so compelling that yiu hallucinate feeling the air move.

    This was first used on gas stoves, which is where the term gaslighting came from.

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    • uberfreeza@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It actually came from WWI, and it used to be called “gaslamping,” since that’s what they had used at the time.

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    • polydactyl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ummmm pretty sure none of that happened

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      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Are you suggesting that someone would reply to a post in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world with something untrue? Ridiculous.

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      • lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But you love being gaslit

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      • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wrong answers only.

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    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does this work for only fans?

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If someone posted how it actually works, it would probably get upvoted, because the real explanation is more exoticthan what most people think.

    The fan is connected to a small electric engine, powered by an electronic device in between the top and bottom parts. This device runs on fediverse upvotes.

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    • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m 90% sure this thing effectively does nothing and just spins when hot air flows over it due to natural convection to make it look like it’s doing something.

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      • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s what I mean. 90% of people would be wrong.

        This is what it looks like on the back:

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s obviously a group of very small people trapped inside a hamster wheel style contraption. As the fan structure heats up, the floor of the wheel grows uncomfortably hot, and forces the little people to continuously run to avoid getting burned (continually cycling the cooler top of the wheel down to the bottom). This in turn turns the fan blades.

    I am honestly appalled that you would buy such a thing; it’s cruel.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a tiny man inside the drum behind the fan and as it heats up, he must walk forward like on a hamster wheel to not burn his bare feet. The man walks inexorably forward, blind and delirious from exhaustion to avoid the agony of being roasted alive.

    You’re a sick fuck for buying this thing OP.

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    • Sv443@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No don’t worry, I talked to Premlak before and he really likes his job actually.

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  • probablymissing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the heat actually vibrates the blades of the fans at a special frequency that allows it to communicate with the undead.

    using a special set of mircoscopic engravings on the back of every odd numbered blade, it communicates with the vengeful spirits and asks for a man named ‘josh’.

    once the fan hits 100°c, and josh is successfully conjured, he utilizes his insanely strong arms to push the fan in a counter-clockwise direction.

    upon the cooling of the fan, josh relieved of his duties, and sent to the break room. another spirit is premoted to a ‘josh’ to take his place.

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    • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      josh darn it

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  • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are little gnomes inside and when it gets hot they start hopping. That hopping powers the fan.

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    • Seaguy05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s just like the brazen bull.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Boiling water.

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It gets too hot and needs to fan itself off before it faints.

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  • pturn1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thoughts & Prayers ^TM^

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  • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The fan has a small gnome creature permanently jailed for his crimes between the bottom foot and top fan. When you heat the bottom he bounces around Mario 64 style and rotates a small crank attached via string. This motion generates enough energy to spin the fan at like 3 rpm. The gnome cannot be released under any circumstances.

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  • hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The earth is spinning like really quickly all the time and we just don’t notice it. Heat if a form of vibration, and so when heat is applied to the bottom of the fan the atoms there move more. A gyroscope resists tilting forces because it is spinning, and the earth is spinning, but the vibration of the fan decouples it from this effect. The blades are able to move freely and the earth moves around them, pushing air through the blades.

    tldr: It’s not spinning, you are spinning

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    • magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But how does the cosmic ether interact with that?

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      • hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m glad that you asked! The earth’s rotation creates an energy field that brings the ether to rotate in sync with it, even at a distance. You can see the effects of this in the atmosphere in hurricanes. The ether is very light and so as the energy field spins the ether faster than the earth it creates the same fan effect but for our atmosphere. Hurricanes never cross the equator because that’s where the forces of the earth spinning against the ether and pushing forward against the ether are perpendicular.

        tldr: the earth is a really big fan and it makes hurricanes

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  • SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It detects when you are in heat, and turns on.

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  • PodPerson@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The 5G sends theta control waves to humanoid brains and the closest human to the fan reflects some of those control waves onto the collecting fins on the body of the fan, thereby resonating and making the fan blades spin.

    Obviously.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quite simply, as it says, when things get heated, such as during a fight with your spouse, the fan will start trying to escape which causes it to spin.

    This also works if you start yelling at it yourself, although you need to be genuine. It can detect if you’re lying, so get angry!

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wind turbine for Jesus farts.

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  • Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You rig it to a boiling pot of water and the fan creates electricity from the boiling water to power the fan

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ghost blowing on it like a pinwheel.

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  • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    HEAT not included

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why is the gauge missing rpm?

    And when will this tech evolve for human body heat?
    (I want to fly using by buttplug!)

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They already tried that, but the power exchange of heat to motion dangerously interacts with conceptual hotness and you just had kinky human icicles falling from the sky.

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        kinky human icicles falling from the sky

        Is that a band or something?

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because hotter oven go brrrr

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    • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It will never be enough for anal aviation, but if you want to move stuff with your body heat, check out stirling engines.

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So you are saying that for anal aviation I’m stuck with jet propulsion for now?

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because it would go up to about 100 rpm and people at the store would know it performs poorly

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  • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When air is warm, it rises. As the air attaches to the blades, the air is tricked into accepting a new definition of “up” which rotates with the blades, endlessly propelling them.

    As that air cools, warmer air is drawn in and entrapped, continuing the cycle.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Steam powered.

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  • axexrx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It gets hot, then it blows you- what else is there to know?

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  • atomp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Love

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  • Hond@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It converts the vibrations from me shagging your mom in the kitchen.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you free tomorrow at five? I want to bake a cake.

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  • Pat@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s heat powered. Obviously.

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    • Gathorall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now now, that answer is merely inaccurate, not wrong.

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  • rook@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Connects to Tesla’s wireless electricity tower ofc

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  • Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Heat move up. Heat hit blade of fan. Heat turn blade.

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  • LostGhost@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Straight up magic

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