• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    There’s a story floating around the internet, I can’t comment on its truthfulness, that 3M accidentally created one in one of their factories back in the 80s.

    Allegedly the plant made adhesive tape, and as such had enormous rolls of plastic that were being spooled or unspooled by machines at very high speed, and at one point the right conditions existed for static electricity to build up in such a way that it created a sort of invisible wall that people were unable to pass through.