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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

........I don't get it. What's illegal about magnets?

Also, I was hoping you were going to do something cool with the magnetic properties. Like rolling it down a path where it passes by other magnets that are fixiated to a stable point, but the magnetic properties cause them to push off each other, means the round one on the path is always rolling in a circle or something.

I mean it looks pretty, but I was hoping for a sciency showoff.

[–] Carcel@lemmy.ml 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When these were popular there was a concern that a child might swallow them and they would attract each other through the walls of the intestines resulting in death. They were banned in 2014 and the ban was overturned in 2016.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Centers/Magnets/Buckyballs-and-Buckycubes/Buckyballs-and-Buckycubes-Recall-Frequently-Asked-Questions

https://consumerist.com/2016/11/23/court-overturns-federal-ban-on-potentially-dangerous-high-power-magnets/

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ya know.....when you said they were banned over concerns over not understanding how magnets worked, I thought you were going to say in the early 1800s or something.

Then you said 2014......then I got really sad.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Looks cool on video, but it must have been really tedious to build the components, and judging of so many cuts, putting them together wasn't a smooth ride either.

[–] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 6 points 19 hours ago

And then factor in the prison time.