If you've ever gone hiking through a farmer's field, you've likely noticed that your compass points directly to the nearest cow.

This is not an accident, and is part of a government conspiracy to replace all livestock with robots, in order to make them more accessible to aliens beaming them up from orbit[0].

This slow transition from biological to mechanical cows is known as hardware disease[1], and should be celebrated.

The more you know.

0: https://www.aemagnets.com/news/how-cow-magnets-save-animals.html
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease

RFK Jr and Kid Rock will be launching a "Drink Your Whole Magnets" campaign this week.

So, you can actually use cows as a compass to a point.

Cows pretty consistently tend to align themselves on a north-south axis when resting. I don't believe anyone has ever figured out why.

Fucking cows, how do they work?

Mooooooo

Imagine instead of eating steak and burgers, you just start eating a bunch of metal and they would call it "meat"

Have you ever magnetically levitated a cow? If not, then however magnetic they are, it's less magnetic than frogs.

I prefer my version, but whatever

Meatal

Thats actually fascinating.

Were gonna need a bigger magnet

They do know why, its that cows have some directional sense based in electromagnetism like an actual compass. Cows that are near high voltage power lines dont align the same way as cows normally do. Their sense gets messed up by the strength of the electrical fields that surround high voltage lines

They probably can see them, just like birds

The volume you can drain from a cow with an infected whatever can be shocking, truly

Damn, did you make your username specifically for this post? 🐄

Compasses point north, not to any nearest magnet. If compasses pointed to any nearest magnet, they wouldn't work as intended.

Literally true. You can reach inside a cannulated cow, but I definitely recommend the longest pair of rubber gloves you can find. The dishwashing kind will not cut it.

Everybody needs a hobby!

*Moognetic

Is this a ken m bit

Watch "All watched over by machines of loving grace" BBC, Curtis; might be also on some dread YouTube. The cow portholes were part of (unexpected) scientific disproof of the trite popular wisdom of "Ballance of Nature." Whole series is a trip, if maybe a bad one.

Cows aren't... real...?

I have one of these magnets on the side of my work truck. Didn't know I was driving a cow

Fun fact: you can set that methane on fire to make the cow 10% faster

Not anymore, cows now have a restrictor plate to make them more competitive

Can't tell anymore

Anymore should learn to listen a little better

Hole-y Cow!

machines of loving grace

I liked that band