Members Anderton Posted December 27, 2006 Members Share Posted December 27, 2006 Really, I'm not making this up... http://www.livescience.com/technology/061129_acoustic_levitation.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted December 27, 2006 Members Share Posted December 27, 2006 While interesting from my perspective, who knows what it is like subjectively for the animal? Why test it on animals anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tradivoro1 Posted December 27, 2006 Members Share Posted December 27, 2006 Yes, I remember an american firm doing this years ago with ball bearings and stuff... But this is the first I hear with animals... Well, it's definitely a cool thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted December 27, 2006 Members Share Posted December 27, 2006 One of the engineers at Bose told me about when he used to work at an acoustics research firm in Germany... they had a square room where they could blast sound in a planar wave out of all six sides of the room, and levitate a chair so it was suspended in the middle of the room. Pretty wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Magpel Posted December 27, 2006 Members Share Posted December 27, 2006 Hmmm...I wonder if this has anything to do with yogic flying and maximum brainwave coherence, one of the very few bizarro and hyperbolic claims to emit from the otherwise pretty level-headed (or should I say grounded) TM/Maharishi camp. Nah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 27, 2006 Members Share Posted December 27, 2006 The levitated ant tried crawling in the air and struggled to escape by rapidly flexing its legs, although it generally failed because its feet find little purchase in the air. The ladybug tried flying away but also failed when the field was too strong to break away from." Lovely. Just flippin' lovely. Too bad they didn't have that technology to suppress the Tian an Men Square pro democracy demonstrations... they could have levitated the struggling democracy demonstrators, writhing in agony in the air, and then dropped them all in a lake or volcano or something... much less messy that running over them in tanks. Ah, our future overlords... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted December 27, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 27, 2006 But for a positive application, turn on the Levitron in your living, then start the vacuum cleaner When the floor's all done, turn it off. And you think air beds and waterbeds are cool? Imagine lying down on sound waves... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 27, 2006 Members Share Posted December 27, 2006 I have seen something once before called yogic jumping. It was - well, it was odd looking. There were people sitting cross-legged on the floor, but they were sort of bouncing. I have absolutely no idea how they were doing this because it didn't look like they were moving their legs. But they weren't "jumping" very high, either. Interesting article and comments (Bose, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Originally posted by UstadKhanAli I have seen something once before called yogic jumping. It was - well, it was odd looking. There were people sitting cross-legged on the floor, but they were sort of bouncing. I have absolutely no idea how they were doing this because it didn't look like they were moving their legs. But they weren't "jumping" very high, either. Interesting article and comments (Bose, etc.). Visit Magpel's link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Antman261 Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 A friend of mine had a dream along these lines quite a few years ago, that someone had created a room in which, with certain music playing, would negate the effects of gravity. Heh. I'll have to show him this when he gets back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joel Oporto Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 I think blaupankt did a more practical application Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Originally posted by Anderton But for a positive application, turn on the Levitron in your living, then start the vacuum cleaner When the floor's all done, turn it off. And you think air beds and waterbeds are cool? Imagine lying down on sound waves... Yeah... but if you "lie" on your back, your kidneys turn to mush... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Antman261 Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 actually i'm sure ultra high frequency waves wouldn't do much to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Originally posted by Antman261 actually i'm sure ultra high frequency waves wouldn't do much to you Except scramble the nuclei in your cells... We're NOT talking about Ultrasound-type levels here, I'm thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Antman261 Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 I thought that's exactly what we were talking about. Although they are also developing ultrasound technology to open up cell membrane for the sake of gene therapy (and I think they have successfully done the cell membrane opening part) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Originally posted by Antman261 I thought that's exactly what we were talking about.Although they are also developing ultrasound technology to open up cell membrane for the sake of gene therapy (and I think they have successfully done the cell membrane opening part) That's pretty interesting. When I say "levels" -- I'm talking about amplitude. One of the things that was crucial in the adoption of Ultrasound technology (and I had a friend who was worked for the company in the late 70s when it was just getting rolling) was determining safe levels... Far as I know they are FAR from enough to even nudge a body sideways by even a fraction of a milimeter -- let alone lift that body off the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Originally posted by joel Oporto I think blaupankt did a more practical applicationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOPnnWBqblo Great ad... can't wait 'til it plays during the 700 Club. Originally posted by UstadKhanAli I have seen something once before called yogic jumping. It was - well, it was odd looking. There were people sitting cross-legged on the floor, but they were sort of bouncing. I have absolutely no idea how they were doing this because it didn't look like they were moving their legs. But they weren't "jumping" very high, either. Interesting article and comments (Bose, etc.). As someone who put a fair bit of time into a less than entirely casual comparative study of esoteric traditions, I started off on the side of the Krishna Consciousness folk in a general kind of way... but as the 70s wore on and I became aware of the penetration of a network of high level drug dealers into the organization's hierarchy as well as the rather jaundiced eye cast upon ISOKC by actual Indian religious leaders, I became considerably more skeptical. By the time the organization was floundering on a sea of derision and they released videotapes of members "levitating" I was pretty curious... when I saw them, I just had to laugh. I find few scam so pernicous as those that prey on the mentally/spiritually impaired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Antman261 Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 I'm getting the impression that this sort of thing is progressing though. I mean, if they're thinking of targeting specific cells in the body (such as cancer cells) to rupture the cells (for a few minutes) then yeah, must be some advancement going on lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Originally posted by Antman261 I'm getting the impression that this sort of thing is progressing though. I mean, if they're thinking of targeting specific cells in the body (such as cancer cells) to rupture the cells (for a few minutes) then yeah, must be some advancement going on lol. That sounds really promising... seems to me that's the kind of research that really makes sense. Some of this other stuff kind of reminds me of those driven by dreams of everyman-as-Edison at the end of the 19th century... "experimenting" with little understanding of the science they were hoping to exploit... "I think what the experiment needs is more TNT!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Karma1 Posted December 28, 2006 Members Share Posted December 28, 2006 Originally posted by blue2blue As someone who put a fair bit of time into a less than entirely casual comparative study of esoteric traditions, I started off on the side of the Krishna Consciousness folk in a general kind of way... but as the 70s wore on and I became aware of the penetration of a network of high level drug dealers into the organization's hierarchy as well as the rather jaundiced eye cast upon ISOKC by actual Indian religious leaders, I became considerably more skeptical.By the time the organization was floundering on a sea of derision and they released videotapes of members "levitating" I was pretty curious... when I saw them, I just had to laugh.I find few scam so pernicous as those that prey on the mentally/spiritually impaired. I could be wrong about this, but I believe that it's not the Krishna Consciousness group that practices the levitation exercises. I think it's the Trancendental Meditation group - the one led by Maharishi (who the Beatles went to see in India back in the 60's). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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