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kebab@endlesstalk.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine

www.independent.co.uk

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Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine

www.independent.co.uk

kebab@endlesstalk.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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MRI magnets are strong enough to toss a wheelchair across a room
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    Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn’t magnetic

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      18kt gold is an alloy with 75% gold and other metals that may be magnetic. I wouldn’t trust a gold chain around my neck with an MRI.

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        So, an all aluminum chain then?

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          #Fashion

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      I believe it can still get hot

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      9kg of gold is worth close to $1mill. Mr T is baller enough to do that

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        it mustve been ferrous material, because gold isnt super magnetic. like steel or iron.

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        Apparently the chains started when he was a bouncer. Sometimes people would lose them, while getting kicked out. He would wear them, so that had to come and ask him politely for them. His collection built when they were either too scared, or too egotistical to ask for them back.

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          That’s the story he told the news in the 80s after he was famous…

          If you don’t think Mr T was playing Debo, I don’t know what to tell you.

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        IIRC Mr T stopped wearing his gold chains because he came to feel that they were tone deaf.

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        The best part about Mr. T’s gold necklaces is that he got the idea from working a bouncer. The man became a literal living mannequin, holding onto people’s gold chains like some kind of ass-kicking coat check.

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      Moving fields, eddy currents still apply.

      Copper isn’t magnetic either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu1uRvErM80

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        Well, TIL. There goes my hopes of showing up to the MRI room with a giant gold necklace

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          Ehh, if you’re gonna go, it’ll at least be memorable :) I suspect we’ll both pass without even a lemmy shitpost.

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      Easier solution: take off your damned metal necklace.

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