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Wow, that's not at all what I would have guessed. I'm an EE engineer who didn't know that this is actually (kind of) feasible.


Indeed, and likewise (well, the would not have guessed part, I'm not an EE).

It seems a really weird coincidence that the circumference of the planet happens to so closely match the resistivity of aluminium and the unit we use for resistance:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=aluminium+resistivity+*...


It's not feasible. You don't need to be an EE engineer to know that.




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