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I don't have enough chemistry background to completely understand the steps, but if it works... the secret sauce seems to be the diamagnetic properties. Did some reading up and it seems that water has diametric properties causing it be repelled slightly went thinly placed on a very strong magnet. Frogs and other critters (with high water content, I suppose) have been levitated if magnets are strong enough. Weird stuff.
Thanx for the info, you really did some homework.
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I'm just closely monitoring the topic on a few sites with high quality data.
Space Battles forum has a great thread following the situation. The /r/singularity sub is also a good resource. And Zhihu for monitoring the Chinese progress.
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Wow what a weird website. Interesting to say the least. I'll get back.
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Check Sabine Hossenfelder's video on this you YouTube. It's all very dodgy and they have a history of bad science.
So in short, yeah nah.
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good video. like her style.
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Thanks for this report, "honey." This is good stuff, and not something that makes the local news. For my purposes, I want to see the current density this tech can support, but I know it's far too soon to expect that.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I always like to remember the Nature reproducibility paper when hearing about things like this -> 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility | Nature[^]
On the whole individual scientific breakthroughs tend to be quite small, so I tend to be on the skep[tical side when hearing about this sort of thing.
Bearing in mind that scientists survive from grants and competition for grant money is fierce, it's always good to be skeptical when claims are made that are not backed by easily reproducible evidence.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 2-Aug-23 7:00am.
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i agree guy
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I remain skeptical, yet interested enough to follow the development of this, if that makes sense.
I recognize that all prior claims like this have been debunked, and it does give me pause, but not quite enough for me to tune it out. 
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I think that's a reasonable and rational approach you are taking.
It's an area I know nothing about and I have seen too many Hyperloops,Theranos and FTxs in my life to not be a little bit cynical on some claims.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Rating usual , no (8)
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Rating AB
usual NORMAL
no
ABNORMAL
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YAUT 
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Good little clue!
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Easy one I'm trying to encourage more people to participate in the CCC
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well, I thought of ABNORMAL but couldn't get the reason. Quite embarrassing really since my first few years of employment were working on a merchant ship.
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Usual being a synonym of normal and the no inverting the answer I thought would give the game away, I often get the solution and post it before breaking it down to justify it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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However abnormal is not exactly the same as not-normal...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Agreed, but near enough for our purposes
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Of course - I just noted that because lately me wife calls me abnormal, but in the past I was called not normal... 
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Mine just calls me a ****. Removes any such confusion. 
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"Close enough for Government work."
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That's how I arrived at the solution. Usual = NORMAL, No = take the opposite => ABNORMAL. I wasn't sure about that result being a rating but went with it anyway. AB as a naval rating didn't occur to me, even though I have seen it before in the CCC.
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rating usual = Abnormal I get. But then the "definition" would need to be just "no", and I don't think of "no" as being "abnormal".
In this case the clue word "usual" is used twice - once as a synonym for part of the answer, and again as the answer's definition. That seems at odds with the customary rules for CCC, no? Wouldn't a "cleaner" clue be rating usual, rare? or similar?
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