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Chickens fed on Kogllegs Magneto-corn produce eggs with strongly magnetic shells. This creates several advantages over conventional non-magnetic eggs:
• The pesky shell fragments can easily be collected using a magnet.
• They can be transported by a simple wire pulley, from which they will hang
like light-bulbs.
• They can be used make a simple boiled egg compass in an emergency.
• Given enough eggs in a matrix assemblage, they could also be used to create a maglev train - go to work on an egg! (for those who remember - UK only)
[marked-for-expiry]
French poultry do things English breeds can only dream of
http://fr.wikipedia...entin_Louis_Kervran
Paragraph beginning "En 1799, Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin," Be sure to check the citation. [mouseposture, Apr 01 2012]
The proper accompaniment when eating monopole eggs
https://www.tasmani...eidsick-co-blue-top
[pertinax, May 26 2024]
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Yes - it's a sort of mechanical version of Kellogs. |
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Magic magnetics with GM corn. |
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This is asking a lot of chicken metabolism... |
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Perhaps, instead, chickens could be retrofitted with
a cloacal device which coats each newly-laid egg
with a thick coat of iron-rich paint? |
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//Magic magnetics with GM corn// GM corn? Never! Organic Magnetic Corn only. |
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Luckily, I had already finished the last of the Palmer '82. I'm not sure the keyboard would have coped with a mirth-induced soaking. |
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Electrostatic eggs would be more fun. |
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// I had already finished the last of the Palmer '82// |
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Just as well - it's getting to the end of its prime. I've
given myself til midnight to get through my last case
of the stuff. |
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//This is asking a lot of chicken metabolism.//
Anglo-Saxon chickens, maybe. *French* chickens can
transmute elements. |
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[MB] you will enjoy <link> -- read the paragraph
beginning "En 1799, Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin" and
under NO circumstances neglect to scroll to the
bottom and see what's being cited in support. |
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If you decalcified the shell in a mild acid and then re-calcified the shell while rotating it above a magnetic Halbach array you might be able to make a monoeufpole. |
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Is "Gallic chicken" an oxymoron? |
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This idea expires in 2 minutes gmt :-) |
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//[MB] you will enjoy <link>// |
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Ah, Kervran - great man, great man. He was a great
pioneer of physics as it should be, rather than as it
is. |
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// physics as it should be, rather than as it is // |
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//physics as it should be// "normative physics." I
mean, if we can have experimental philosophy, why
not? |
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//Don't say this was an April fool!// I had thought that [marked-for-expiry] made this very obvious. |
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Shirley, here on the HB, an April Fool would be an
entirely reasonable, sensible proposal? |
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Assuming you could get a monopole egg, of the south polarity, all one would have to is fit all local foxes with a collar, affixed to which would be another monopole, of the north polarity and egg stealing would be a thing of the past? |
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//Assuming you could get a monopole egg// |
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//egg stealing would be a thing of the past?// |
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On the contrary; egg stealing would be so much easier: the fox would only have to stroll through the shed and emerge with a sort of egg-pendant. |
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