• Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The only way a frog can levitate by itself is after it builds a complicated multimillion dollar machine and gets inside. But granted, at that point, it becomes a very impressive frog.

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    5 months ago

    I had to be at the mag lab in Tallahassee semi regularly during my undergrad, where they would demonstrate the magnetic levitation of a frog from time to time. The place had systems with cryo pressure high enough to turn an improperly sealed hatch into a very deadly projectile for anybody unlucky enough to be in the same room

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    5 months ago

    Andre Geim got the Ig Nobel for this. He is the only person this far to have got both the Ig Nobel and an actual Nobel prize.