Jinx wrote:
> In fact, I heard a man on the talkback this morning who expanded
> on simple gyros. You start with a gyro spun at high speed. The
> container that the gyro is in is spun at high speed at 90 degrees
> to the rotation of the inner gyro. Then the whole is spun at 90 degrees
> to that (ie spinning in the X Y and Z axes), all in a vacuum to reduce
> friction and power input. His claim (he says is backed and supported
> by engineers world-wide) is that the end effect is levitation

That sounds a lot like the multi-axis chair that astronauts train on, or at
least used to. They had a version of it at Space Camp when I went eons ago. I
don't remeber it levitating. Although I did notice some odd sensations, maybe
that was levitation and I didn't realize it at the time.

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