Comments on: Levitating Frogs ‘n’ such . . . https://habitablezone.com/2014/04/07/levitating-frogs-n-such/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:15:13 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2014/04/07/levitating-frogs-n-such/#comment-30361 bowser Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:01:17 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=44290#comment-30361 I can get my frog to jump over a magnet, and at one point it might be weightless, but it won't levitate even though I yell at it. My damned gecko won't hold still long enough for me to stitch up a harness to test the weight it can hold up. It's fine work, and I simply can't make one and get it on. He won't hold still, and looks at that 40 kg. weight with a jaundiced eye. I think he's suspicious. I held up a fairly large grain of sand, and only counted 8,517 galaxies behind it. Assuming I missed 10%, that's still not 10,000. I picked out a quartZ grain of sand so that I could see through it, and in all fairness maybe it was too cloudy. My car, a 1987, doesn't have much computing power and can barely make it home, let alone land on the Moon. I doubt that it has more than any of the Apollos. Two things omitted are that gravity varies and air density varies, too.. Some days there is much more gravity than others, and the air is thicker. I can tell when I ride my bike. Otherwise, interesting post. I love those lists. I can get my frog to jump over a magnet, and at one point it might be weightless, but it won’t levitate even though I yell at it.

My damned gecko won’t hold still long enough for me to stitch up a harness to test the weight it can hold up. It’s fine work, and I simply can’t make one and get it on. He won’t hold still, and looks at that 40 kg. weight with a jaundiced eye. I think he’s suspicious.

I held up a fairly large grain of sand, and only counted 8,517 galaxies behind it. Assuming I missed 10%, that’s still not 10,000. I picked out a quartZ grain of sand so that I could see through it, and in all fairness maybe it was too cloudy.

My car, a 1987, doesn’t have much computing power and can barely make it home, let alone land on the Moon. I doubt that it has more than any of the Apollos.

Two things omitted are that gravity varies and air density varies, too.. Some days there is much more gravity than others, and the air is thicker. I can tell when I ride my bike.

Otherwise, interesting post. I love those lists.

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