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1 HN user recommended this in 2016, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2016, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
Remember, the entire mass of the Earth @ 5.972 × 10^24 kg (which is 1.317 × 10^25 lbs) i.e. 5 septillion kilos or 13 septillion pounds) which is under you is enough to push you down with something like 150 pounds of force. A magnet with 150 lbs of holding power is able to fight all of that and takes up this massive amount of room:
https://www.amazon.com/CMS-Magnetics-Holding-Neodymium-Count...
Yes - that's a penny for comparison.
Gravity is soooo weak.