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

  • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    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.