Submitted 19 hours ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to science_memes@mander.xyz
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If you’ve ever gone hiking through a farmer’s field, you’ve likely noticed that your compass points directly to the nearest cow. This is not an accident, and is part of a government conspiracy to magnetize all livestock in order to make them more accessible to aliens beaming them up from orbit.
The more you know.
Have you ever magnetically levitated a cow? If not, then however magnetic they are, it’s less magnetic than frogs.
Were gonna need a bigger magnet
So, you can actually use cows as a compass to a point.
Cows pretty consistently tend to align themselves on a north-south axis when resting. I don’t believe anyone has ever figured out why.
Fucking cows, how do they work?
Mooooooo
They do know why, its that cows have some directional sense based in electromagnetism like an actual compass. Cows that are near high voltage power lines dont align the same way as cows normally do. Their sense gets messed up by the strength of the electrical fields that surround high voltage lines
Compasses point north, not to any nearest magnet. If compasses pointed to any nearest magnet, they wouldn’t work as intended.
I have one of these magnets on the side of my work truck. Didn’t know I was driving a cow
FYI: Lemmy’s markdown formatting supports footnotes.
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It’s pretty handy.
That ^[is] ^[insane]! ^[!]
They create LIVESTOCK-FREE URBAN ZONING because they hate FREE ENERGY. It is the duty of FREETHINKERS to RESIST.
Mag-cow disease.
One guy tips over a cow just to get a few amps from his homemade solenoid, and suddenly laws against it are written. Cow tipping is a time honored tradition. Vote YES on proposition 69
*Moognetic
Only in murica , cows dont need magnets .
RFK Jr and Kid Rock will be launching a “Drink Your Whole Magnets” campaign this week.
Cows aren’t… real…?
Imagine instead of eating steak and burgers, you just start eating a bunch of metal and they would call it “meat”
Meatal
ameancow@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I already know nobody is going to click on OP’s link, so the short version is the magnet is permanently placed down in the cow’s second stomach and it stays there for life, and if the cow eats and nails or pieces of barbed wire, it sticks to the magnet instead of shredding up their intestines.
tetris11@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
I prefer my version, but whatever
ameancow@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
We can do your version on weekends.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 15 hours ago
Thats actually fascinating.
ameancow@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Wait until you learn about portholes to their stomachs and methane vents people install on cows.