Saturday, February 09, 2008

We could have easily come up with this

Another missed opportunity. Take something as cool as magnets, and something dear as "Mr. Happy" (I don't want to offend our reader(s) with overt reference to dangly bits) mix in a scientifically illiterate populace and voila!  Magnehance!
Just stick this in your shorts: a super-flexible neodymium iron boron magnetic insert- and wait I guess.

The idea is based on magnetic material increasing blood flow presumably because people are told that iron is in the blood, and iron is magnetic!  Even though I think everyone reading this blog has made it beyond PHY204 I will reiterate that iron in hemoglobin does not have a magnetic dipole moment.  It's electrons are busy doing other things, like holding on to other atoms and are not free to participate in a magnetic field domain.  

Good thing it doesn't! Because when people are put in a 2T magnetic field in an MRI machine all their blood would rush to one side or the other and they would suffer a fantastically sci-fi-looking death which would be blogged here for sure.

Reader challenge:  What else could men stick in their shorts to improve things?  (YR policy: No answers are ever rejected as too cynical, but you can try.)  

2 Comments:

Blogger Mike said...

I'm certain Salma Hayek in my shorts would improve things. Anyway, the Magnehance sounds like a perfect opportunity for another Yoshirap experiment like the Colon Project. We could call "The Bob Dole Project" or something. Volunteers?

February 10, 2008 at 3:13:00 AM PST  
Blogger Jason W. said...

I think it's going to have to be all you. Between me, Kmac, and Tommy, we already have about 97 children. Let's not tempt fate any more than we already have.
So start ordering stuff over the internet and let project "Rock-Hard Pillar of Justice" begin.

February 14, 2008 at 8:50:00 PM PST  

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