floating

Greetings. I've brought this up in the past, but it felt like a good time to try again...probably because of the fun discussing the human powered helicopter challenge. The challenge is to build a craft that is lighter than air, without the use of hot air, He or H2. Specifically, it would need...

Every time I see this sketch I can't help thinking about how Colin fry must have been prancing about in the dark floating his trumpet. http://www.flurl.com/item/Boss_Who_Is_Invisible_u_110407/

Hello my friends.. it's been a long time since I posted here, but today I heard some story, (even better a university homework) which sound like bogus to me... the task is to give a scientific explanation of this supposedly real phenomena: If a body dies under water, and get's trapped there...

In many parts of the world people live on land, below sealevel (me included). Now if a city/village is lost wouldn't be wise to rebuild it into a floating city? I have already seen some designs of floating villages here in the Netherlands and it might be the best option for a small number of...

Death Valley has rocks that move, leaving grooves. It has huge boulders that disappear. Some people have thought it might be due to ETs. They would come to Earth to move some rocks around in a murderously hot place like Death Valley? Probably right after they built the Pyramids and...

The floating a battleship in a gallon of water idea seemed very wrong to me to begin with. I had to change my mind, I'm interested in what convinces other people. Hence the poll I had to conduct an experiment. None of the explanations in the thread actually convinced me, and I preferred to...

Hey, normally I only care about card manipulation stuff, but I saw someone at a local bar do the Floating Cigarette Trick and it looked unbelievable. So I have some questions: a) is it Fearson's? b) will it work in brightly lit situations? c) is it as awesome as I think it is? and d) where...