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Old Oct 20th, 2011, 01:54 PM   #1
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Cool Levitation... very cool

Superconducting disc locked in upside-down levitation

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Surely if flying saucers existed, they would float around like the disc in this video. The demonstration by physicist Boaz Almog from Tel Aviv University, Israel, at the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, earlier this week illustrates how a superconducting plate can be fixed in 3D space while levitating above a track of permanent magnets. But this isn't simply magnetic repulsion: the disc can also stay suspended upside down when the magnets are flipped over.
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Old Oct 20th, 2011, 02:14 PM   #2
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Old Oct 20th, 2011, 02:35 PM   #3
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In the vain of science and technology

Very cool CM

Science and Technology marches forward in this article and video demonstration of "The Periodic Table of Swearing" to extend your range of swearing. As it's from the UK the swearing is much more polite.

Interactive Periodic Table of Swearing.
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Periodic table of irrational nonsense

I always liked this one:
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Old Oct 24th, 2011, 09:58 AM   #5
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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Old Oct 24th, 2011, 03:40 PM   #6
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Yeah that was cool. Interesting how the object locked in place - height or orientation.

I also checked out a related video of robots dancing. Robotics has come quite a ways.
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