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The Far Side

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

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19 December 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I worked in MRI for many years. There's a big, red button behind a plexiglass access window that releases all the liquid helium which keeps the superconductivity of the big-ass magnetic coil. It's called a quench, it's loud, dangerous, and only to be used in life-or-death emergencies, e.g. person is trapped between an oxygen tank and the MRI. Pressing the button kills the MRI and it can cost millions of dollars to reactivate it.

I worked with these things for almost 10 years. The urge never abates, we just learn to manage it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love these stories so much. Anytime a metal object is sucked into an MRI, they experience "projectile acceleration". Since the strength of magnetic pull increases the closer an object gets, objects will accelerate rapidly. I'd argue a live rifle stuck to the MRI is an emergency. The gun could have discharged. Then I'd sue the hell outta the city.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I t's not gonna fire on its own if it's in decent working-order. Can the machine be safely, gracefully shut down to remove it or are they always super-magnetized?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ramp-down isn't really possible. The idea behind the super cooled coil is that once activated, it takes almost zero energy to maintain the (very strong, like 300,000x more than Earth's) magnetic field. A super cooled coil can keep an electric current for a very, very long time. The magnet is ALWAYS ON, and the door into the room has a big warning about it. All employees in the same building as the MRI should be trained to Read The Fucking Sign. Cop should have, too.

It would take a huge amount of force to pry the gun free. I would argue the risk of prying the gun free and it discharging is much worse than the cost to reactivate the magnet. If the gun was hot, I don't know if they could have even cleared the magazine at that point. The bolt or magazine may have been stuck in place.

During the very early days of COVID I walked into the magnet room with a homemade reusable mask. It had a twist tie in the nose to keep it from fogging my glasses. I was 10 feet away from the magnet when I felt it start to be pulled free from my face. I've never noped out of a room more quickly in my life...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oof, i can imagine shopping for 100% non-magnetic glasses could be a pain too. It's hard enough finding proper specifications for tech items; ordinary consumer goods? Good luck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Strangely, was never an issue for me. I usually wear thick rimmed plastic ones, the metal in the screws was never pulled into the machine.

But, if I was getting an MRI of my head I would take them off. Mostly because they didn't fit. But they could also distort the images or, worst case scenario, absorb the radio waves and heat up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wow you really explained it well. Thanks. I didn't think it would jam up the bcg on the rifle but that makes sense.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 4 points 2 weeks ago

Give that officer some extra paid leave, that'll teach 'em.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The question is, which one's Irwin?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My money is on the one sitting on the right. He does seem to be pondering the button

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

He looks like he's just about to reach out and touch it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Probably the one that is looking up to that button. But they could all be Irwin with that ominous big button (which looks like a rotating knob and not a pushbutton)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Dream big, Irwin. I know you've got it in you

[–] W_itjust_works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I got money on clipboard back turned supervisior. When a big button has to get an ok, you know it’ll come down to management to make the call.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of the Matthew Good book and the rabbit masters with the purple switch. I love it.