'Virus-fighting' scientist gets magnets stuck in nose

BBC ^ | March 30, 2020 | BBC

[Kriggerel]

An Australian astrophysicist who hoped to create a device to help stop people catching the coronavirus has ended up in hospital - after getting magnets stuck up his nose.

Dr Daniel Reardon came up with a plan to create a necklace which would react if your hands were near your face.

Unfortunately, the device did not work quite as planned.

[BenLurkin]

“It’s not cheap, but I’m sure the government will buy it.”

[dfwgator]

"#12 Melodic......Everybody! He's got the whole world in his nose..."

[TigersEye]

I didn’t realize epidemiology was a budding hobby. We have this astrophysicist in this example,

In all fairness, it would work in the vacuum of space.

[alfa6]

At least it wasn’t a Hot Wheel car!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWL1cPmHAJg

Regards

alfa6 ;>}|

[Keyhopper]

My daughter did the same thing. My starter wife excitedly wanted to take her to the doctor. Me, being more pragmatic, introduced my budding scientist to the fun and exciting realm of launching snot rockets.
Did pretty well, shot that pea a good 10 feet.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Hither AND yon? Good grief!

[rlmorel]

Without even reading the article, I am going to guess he was using nice cheap rare earth magnets (the kind that give you a blood blister if you are careless)

[rlmorel]

I don’t much care for people like that.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I got problems of my own, I said
And you can't help me out
So take your medications an' your preparations
An' ram it up your snout...

Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris

[Songcraft]

Now, there's a classic!   (See link.)      :-)

(Can you imagine the size of the coronavirus test swab he would need for that schnoz?)

[Kickass Conservative]

Up your nose with a rubber hose...

[rlmorel]

I swear I thought for sure it was going to be the Jackass guys that put a Matchbox I his nether parts inside a condom and went to a Doc in the Box for an X-ray for abdominal pain!

[KarlInOhio]

The most embarrassing part was his grad student finding him stuck to the refrigerator in the morning.

[TigersEye]

“He puts Jewjewbees up his nose” Not sure how many know what those were ??

It's not entirely clear you know what they are either.

[ptsal]

Anyone using the new CPAP headgear from Res__d knows about snapping magnets.

It is a Chinese trick.

[Bell Bouy II]

I know what they are and have since the 50’s

[dgbrown]

One of my many favorites.

[Deaf Smith]

They should first take a MRI scan to know the location of the magnet.

*There it is! Stuck to the MRI machine.

[TigersEye]

But still can’t spell it. As if you’ve never seen a package of them before.

[Bell Bouy II]

I dont have a clue what the pkg looked like in the 50’s and didnt give a rats ass how to spell it back then as now.
Yer a frigen jerk