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[reldnahkram]

Fastest man-made spinning object: 600 Million RPMs.

Krulwich on cloaking devices, and some of the issues that people marketing these devices have run into.

Remember those folks with the Apollo F-1 engine. Now they're printing rocket parts with a 3D printer.

Comments

[mst3kforall.livejournal.com]

The idea to examine what happens to complex objects at high speeds and the methodology devised to test and read the results are so clever! Or maybe if I were a physicist they wouldn't seem like one of those intuitions that seem "obvious" only after someone has thought of them. Isn't calcium carbonate chalk?

[eclectic-boy.livejournal.com]

"The fast-moving sphere acted in essence like a miniature gyroscope, stabilizing around the axis of rotation and picking up speed until it hit a limit of 600 million revolutions per minute and appeared to vanish, said the BBC's Pallab Ghosh.
It's unclear to the scientists what happened to the object or why it hit that limit. The phenomenon may in fact be a previously unrecorded event, though the next step is to follow up on the findings and investigate the nature of the phenomenon to be certain."

Buckaroo has done it! He's gone into the Eighth Dimension!