Can't throw me off the scent

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Yup, magnetars. Like specifically that number, 10^9 - 10^11 T.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar

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Never heard of these?

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"I hate crackheads
I hate crackheads"

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Damn, that's interesting! Also just realised I forgot that pulsars are a type of neutron star

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Where the hell are you hanging out, that you regularly run into spools of fiber optic cable? I've never seen one in my life!

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In turkey there are a lot of people who gather cardboard for recycling for a wage of about 30-40 dollars a day

Is the USA version of this just pulling copper?

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there's a lot of construction near me, it was all wilderness, now they're putting in housing developments.

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those are boring, i want hunks of cable, undersea cable, backbone cable, local telco.

what can I say, I probably have issues

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Are you trying to melt the copper by induction? Not much else can be done with a magnet, since copper isn't ferromagnetic...

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Stealing copper, getting under older cars and cutting out catalytic converters, yes. Copper is not a big money maker but it's better than collecting aluminum cans.

The problem with 90% of crime is poverty. They do hundreds of dollars of damage to make a few bucks. If we had universal basic income or better safety nets these crimes would nearly vanish overnight.

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I do cable a lot for my work. I have probably a mile of cat 6 at this point. I do fiber too, and yes I want a big chunk of undersea cable to make art with.

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Honestly we just throw chunks of fiber away. For our purposes, if it's over 320 feet it's going to be copper anyway. I made the mistake one time of underestimating the amount of fiber I'd need and cost my company a lot of money. Now I always over order and the extra goes in the trash because it's worthless. Next time you see guys doing fiber they might just have some scrap fiber to give you.

A few weeks ago I had a guy come up to me and jokingly say hey you should give me some of that copper line. I was feeling generous and gave him an unopened 1000ft box of cat6. Don't tell my boss!

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I'm not who you responded to but my answer is all the time due to my job.

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Old joke:

Don't hang out with methheads.

A crackhead will steal your wallet.

A methhead will steal your wallet then help you look for it.

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>Monster Magnet

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TBF they do have a large gauge wire in them

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If you live in the UK I'll send you some. 864f OK?

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Crackhead gonna crackhead.

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864f

Aww, that's awesome—you're awesome! And that's a wicked-looking cable. Sadly, I'm in the US.

It made me ponder, though. It looks like several different product manufacturers sell affordable samples of some of the larger cables.

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kingly say hey you should give me some of that copper line.

Haa! that's great. Imagine trying to harvest those 22g strande from the TP

I hit an auction for an electrician that went out of business, I got a bunch of remnant boxes for different coax for around $10. They all had between 100 and 500ft left. Most of it's just RG8 but there's some strange dual cable sat line in there that's almost decent. I do a little home networking so I have a few hundred feet of cat 6. on hand and prob a half spool of cat5 that I'll never use. And I have.

Mostly I want the big stuff because I see it but never actually get to touch it. It's like I'd probably want a mainframe if I hadn't spent plenty of time screwing with one.