Guest essay by Eric Worrall
An Astrophysicist trying to find a means of helping us avoid touching our faces during the Coronavirus epidemic suffered an embarrassing mishap when his rare Earth magnets disappeared up his nose.
Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device
Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face
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Reardon said he placed two magnets inside his nostrils, and two on the outside. When he removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the two inside stuck together. Unfortunately, the researcher then attempted to use his remaining magnets to remove them.
“At this point, my partner who works at a hospital was laughing at me,” he said. “I was trying to pull them out but there is a ridge at the bottom of my nose you can’t get past.
“After struggling for 20 minutes, I decided to Google the problem and found an article about an 11-year-old boy who had the same problem. The solution in that was more magnets. To put on the outside to offset the pull from the ones inside.
“As I was pulling downwards to try and remove the magnets, they clipped on to each other and I lost my grip. And those two magnets ended up in my left nostril while the other one was in my right. At this point I ran out of magnets.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/30/astrophysicist-gets-magnets-stuck-up-nose-while-inventing-coronavirus-device
Thankfully Dr. Reardon’s nostril magnets were successfully removed. But his experience provides us all with a valuable lesson; if you are self isolating and bored, and have a handy set of small rare earth magnets, sticking them up your nose is probably a bad idea.
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Oven mitts. Washable, reusable. Cover your hands. Protect your mouth, nose, and eyes.
That said, bad medical staff and personal hygiene, globalism, spreaders of social contagion, and a government and population distracted by more than 13 trimesters of witch hunts and warlock trials have left Americans at risk. The causes will vary in your neck of the woods.
In a way I admire the guy. It’s the kind spectacular effort that led to a spectacular failure. We need people like that to break barriers and innovate. Maybe next time.
🙂
The spirit of endeavour and adventure.
Where would we be without people like this?
They make the mistakes we all wouldn’t make, just to prove we are all sane.
Good luck to the guy.
Somehow I get the impression that there will be more people bored at home trying to stick things in orifices where a sensible person ought not to.
Brings to mind coming stateside after years away seeing young men with round plugs inserted into holes in their earlobes’ fleshy part. When I worked in East Africa (early 1970s) I saw plenty of elderly tribal men with post-plugged earlobes so stretched out they’d hang the ear lobe up by draping the hole over the top of the ear for convenience.
“‘What’s it mean? What’s it leading to? You know, if you’d have told me twenty years ago, that I’d see children walking the streets of our Texas towns with green hair, and bones in their noses…I just flat out wouldn’t have believed ya!
‘Signs and wonders…But I think once you stop hearin’ Sir and Ma’am, the rest is soon to foller.”
‘Well…It’s the tide, the dismal tide…it’s not the one thing.’
“Not the one thing…'”
https://youtu.be/rk6LBQMPBWs
A highly educated idiot.
He should have borrowed this guys magnets…
https://youtu.be/yM4Xe2c0B8M
Soon to move over to the Climate Science field, he will fit right in.
Sounds like he was able to laugh at himself, an important fact missing from Mann et al! And as an Aussie myself, he is a lot less embarrassing to Australians than the idiots whingeing about the standard of the 5 star hotels rooms they are confined to for isolation because they left for a cruise in mid-March when everything was starting to close down.
&… To think, that I was in an argument with a Sheila, who was confusing Intelligence & Education ??
Perhaps too much iron in his diet ?
As a “sufferer” of haemochromatosis, let’s not go there. I am blessed with the lesser aggressive gene combination.
Here’s an astrophysicist who seems not to have heard of convection. Perhaps these guys aren’t as bright as they say they are.
https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/22/1/article/i1052-5173-22-1-44.htm
Rather odd that, since heat transport in stars is almost exclusively by convection. He somehow must have failed to appreciate that it works in cold gases as well.
Depends on the mass of the star, and the stage of it’s life cycle it is in.
For stars on the Main Sequence of the H-R Diagram, IOW stars burning hydrogen in their core,
it breaks down like this: Small mass stars are entirely convective.
Medium mass stars (like the Sun, and others between ~0.5 and 1.5 solar masses) have an inner radiative and outer convective structure, and for high mass stars, a small inner convective and large outer radiative zone. Progressively large stars over 1.5 solar masses have increasingly large inner convective zones, but they maintain a large outer radiative zone. Proportionally, larger stars have more and more of their diameter dominated by radiative energy transfer.
At least…according to current prevailing astrophysics.
(except really stupid stars, which have a pinhead-sized inner magnetic nasal zone)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution#/media/File:Star_types.svg
https://scienceatyourdoorstep.com/2019/11/11/what-goes-on-inside-a-star/
Yeah. Had to be an Australian “academic” dicktard. May as well go to Coles or Wollworths (Supermarkets) to get Aussie PHD’s off of the back of a Weetbix box (Breakfast cereal) these days!
That’ll teach him.
Personally, I hope to see him become famous enough to make a guest appearance on Big Bang Theory.
With an additional large neodynium magnet held at the posterior base of the skull, he could have become famous for innovating a new minimally invasive form of lobotomy brain surgery.
He missed his calling.
Also don’t swallow this type of magnet. A single one is pretty harmless, and so are two that are already stuck together, but two or more swallowed separately may later stick together in a bad place inside you and kill you. They are easily strong enough to pinch a hole in your intestines.
And don’t do as a security guard in a swedish hospital recently, who went too close to a MRT with a set of handcuffs at his belt. He got smashed into the equipment and they had to dump the Helium to get him loose. Veeery expensive….
But a candidate for the Darwin Awards was the gentleman who, together with his wife, heard that hydroxychloroquine was a remedy that had good results in ameliorating the effects of Corona Virus. Finding that some of his fish tank cleaner contained this substance, he tried eating or drinking it. His wife survived, he didn’t!
Believe he may have been a Yank. Definitely not Australian!
Knew PHD scientist that validated invisible doggie fence by trying the collar on himself. It worked, big time.
Never confuse education with intelligence or common sense.