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# I don't mind the monarchy much, except for Prince Charles
It did piss me off on the local news the other day:
NEWS: And Prince William visited a local hospital today, to open a new MRI machine that can be used on patients during an operation.
ME: What the hell, that is so cool?! Wow! Seriously?
NEWS: Here's Prince William talking to people
ME: SHOW US THE FUCKING MACHINE!
NEWS: Now we'll discuss what Prince William is wearing...
ME: Cool machine. Now.
NEWS: Blah blah blah, talking to old man about the Prince.

After the intro, not one mention of the damn thing he was there to open
(I helped save b3ta! the wub - guide onion for the blind, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:01, archived)
# It's not all that much to look at.
Basically a white plastic tunnel that they slide the patient into. Thn you expose the patient to a big magnetic field from a superconducting magnet and hit them with radio-frequency radiation. Protons in the watery bits of you give out a signal and they build a picture from it.
The method is very neat, but the kit is not that exciting to look at.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:13, archived)
# No, I know about MRI, I was interested in the fact that you can do operations in it
For one thing, such a big magnet is not going to play nicely with metal surgical tools
www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14006
(I helped save b3ta! the wub - guide onion for the blind, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:30, archived)
# Aha!
Should be ok with several types of diamagnetic metals - we use several copper components in the SQUID, which goes up to 5 Tesla. Also, you can make very sharp blades with certain polymers - apparently used by spies and the like as they don't really show on X-rays well.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:43, archived)