Mar 10
Mayor Bloomberg Fields Insane Clown Posse Twitter Question on Radio Show
Posted in: Miscellaneous Tech, Today's Chili, twitter
What do you get when you combine New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an A.M. radio show, Twitter, an the Insane Clown Posse? Why, hilarious shenanigans, naturally. While replying to Twitter questions on his radio show last week (hastag #askMike), the Mayor stumbled up one that particularly piqued his interested.
Twitter user @reluctanthope asked the Mayor, “”[Expletive] magnets? How do they work?” (It was the first tweet by that Brooklyn-based user.) Getting past that initial bit of blue language, Bloomberg drew upon his electrical engineering background, launching into a fairly impressive response,
Well, as you probably know, everything is made up of atoms, and atoms have electrons, usually in pairs orbiting around them, and they create mini-magnetic fields. But the two electrons spin in orbit, as pairs, spin in opposite directions. They cancel out each other. But magnetic materials aren’t in pairs. So the spins don’t cancel out each other. And if there’s enough of them, it creates a magnetic field.
Thing is, it wasn’t so much a question as a lyric from the Insane Clown Posse song “Miracle,” a bizarre little homage to the wonders of the world. Video refresher after the jump.
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