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Scientists Create Levitating Disk That Spins For Hours Without Touching Anything
Study Finds ^ | October 10, 2025 | Daehee Kim and Jason Twamley (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)

Posted on 10/10/2025 11:44:34 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/10/2025 11:44:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata; ...

Ping!.....................


2 posted on 10/10/2025 11:45:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve got a toroidal thing, it just hovers there, with a direction, and a sort of needle that rests against a clear plastic screen, to keep it from flyin’ off. Spin it, and it spins for a while. It’s remarkable how quickly it stops being interesting. This new thing may have some neat applications.


3 posted on 10/10/2025 11:49:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: Red Badger
 
 
Yay! I see it as the first step towards flying cars. I want one just like the Jetsons.
 
 

4 posted on 10/10/2025 11:50:48 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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5 posted on 10/10/2025 11:54:14 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Red Badger

Awesome! Now do we have practical uses for this?


6 posted on 10/10/2025 11:54:49 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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7 posted on 10/10/2025 11:55:12 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: Red Badger

Is there a physicist in the house.

Could this spinning jenny be use to create useful energy?


8 posted on 10/10/2025 11:56:42 AM PDT by ckilmer
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9 posted on 10/10/2025 11:59:07 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Antihero101607

“Awesome! Now do we have practical uses for this?”

We have been using them for awhile now...

Magnetic Bearings:

https://www.bearingmaker.com/magnetic-bearings-types-working-principle/


10 posted on 10/10/2025 11:59:54 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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11 posted on 10/10/2025 12:00:20 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Openurmind

That’s actually pretty cool.


12 posted on 10/10/2025 12:04:26 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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Ping!!


13 posted on 10/10/2025 12:05:53 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: Antihero101607

Absolutely, Friction-less Bearings is a really big deal.

One of the main challenges of all the past “Perpetual Motion Machine” designs was Bearing friction.


14 posted on 10/10/2025 12:11:40 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Red Badger

“damping persisted below 0.1 Pascals”

Well there’s your problem right there. They have to get down to at least 0.05 Pascals and then they’ll really have something.


15 posted on 10/10/2025 12:21:33 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Red Badger

Floating disc huh?


16 posted on 10/10/2025 12:21:47 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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One was to get $59 million in research grant money.
(Just kidding).

There was once a big US government study of owl spit.

Every few minutes owls spit. Researchers analyzed samples of the spit’s composition because a healthy environment in the woods could be seen but if there were no tiny rodent bones and the owls had resorted to eating tree bark it was a sign they were desperate to find nourishment and the forest was dying out.


17 posted on 10/10/2025 12:23:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Ha.

Thousands of sightings since Biblical times have a witness saying “It made no sound. It had no flames or smoke but it silently moved around.”


18 posted on 10/10/2025 12:24:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Magnum44

Gif....

“With my Ozempic injections I feel lighter already.”


19 posted on 10/10/2025 12:25:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Gif....

And when you awaken you will remember nothing about this but you will feel the urge to spend the night in my motel room.


20 posted on 10/10/2025 12:26:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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