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What cracks me up is the piece of metal, labeled metal, attached to the one metric ton of… Metal

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You sure about that?

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Well, the metal sees the magnet and wants to eat it so it move toward it. It’s the ol’ Magnet on a Stick trick and metal is easily fooled.

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Because it makes the vehicle too long to park in the average garage or driveway.

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Good old troll physics.

W…wait, why is the troll head missing?!?

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Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (Jim Button and Lukas the Engine Driver) dit it first:

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They even got one step behound: The two rocks you see in the drawing are actually a broken up magnet into it’s north pole and south pole, so it’s only magnetic when they connect the both with a metal rod. Genius. (ofc that’s EXACTLY how magnets work)

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There are magnetic monopoles, but only in quantum physics.

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Fun at partys guy: While the car will actually experience a force torwards the magnet, so will the magnet experience an equal amount of force torwards tha car. Given the connection between the car and the magnet is stiff, these opposing forces will stress the connection and create a reactive force in there according to Newtens 3rd law, ultimatly canseling the forces out and neither the car nor the magnet will move.

If you however remove the stiff connection, the car and the magnet will move torwards each other untill they meet.

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