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Re:What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube ... by mjcohen on Monday February 03, 2014 @06:55PM (#7174474)
Ha! When I was in school, we had to push the electrons around by hand! You kids had it easy!
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Re:What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube ... by JakeStone on Monday February 03, 2014 @07:16PM (#7174575)
You guys had electrons? We had to use scotch tape on a bunch of quarks and give them a half spin and then push them.

Uphill. Both ways.

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Re:What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Inside A Copper Tube ... by smoyer on Monday February 03, 2014 @08:28PM (#7174889)
I'm declaring a winner here ... the only possible thing that could top that is "through three-foot deep snow".
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