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Levitation Becoming a Reality and Lexington E.T. Tourism Campaign

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Levitation becomes a reality? Plus, one Kentucky city’s tourism campaign includes extraterrestrials invites, this week in history - New York’s plan to save women’s souls, and a few fan corrections. Magnet Levitation (Popular Mechanics) Lexington Extraterrestrial Tourism Campaign (AP News) Sullivan Ordinance (History) (Wikipedia) Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Instagram - Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:29.9

Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Paff, alongside Reggie Rizzou.

0:35.1

On today's episode, levitation becomes a reality. Plus one Kentucky

0:40.2

City's tourism campaign includes extraterrestrial invites. And this week in history, New York's

0:47.4

plan to save women's souls. Coming up on cool stuff, right home. Well, if you're a fan of superheroes or the Back to the Future trilogy for that matter,

0:57.0

you've likely daydreamed at some point about what it would be like to suspend gravity and levitate or hover above the ground.

1:05.0

I know that for me, as a kid, I often imagined how crazy the year 2015 would be with its flying cars and hoverboards,

1:13.0

neither of which actually came to fruition.

1:15.1

No matter what they say about those hoverboards, those are not real hoverboards.

1:18.9

I want my Back to the Future hoverboards.

1:21.0

Yeah.

1:21.3

Oh, the stuff that they've actually released today, no doubt.

1:24.1

But stop the charade, people.

1:26.3

None of this has come to fruition yet, of course,

1:28.7

but a recent popular mechanics piece from Tim Newcomb took a closer look at a newfound style

1:34.2

of anti-gravity levitation, which could potentially have some profound real-world implications.

1:40.8

Research continues on this magnetic-based form of levitation in which a spinning rotor magnet

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