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Aaahhh I love this thread, it gives me a warm feeling inside. This is what GxNx Industries is all about. Other message boards / online communities worry about trolls spoiling their meaningful well thought out discussions but in this little warm, cozy corner of the interwebs there is nothing but trolling - every post is a troll, every answer is a troll, every user is a troll I think that it is a tribute to our trollishness that in 8 years of uncontrolled and unmonitored access to this board we have not had a single message from an unknown poster...

check it out neato or what? please send all my future xmas presents from this site

i think we have had one

sounds like shite to me - momentum is can not hold it in a circle - they must be using sonar to hold it but what shape of sonar wave.....maybe double sonar wave......

but they retracted their post immediately...nah that's not a troll

yeah am not convinced either. Angular momentum resists rotations but not translations (otherwise you'd be able to build antigravity devices out of gyroscopes) so I retract my argument about the gyroscopic effect counteracting bouyancy. However, I do think its the reason the bubbles dont collapse. I like the sonar idea....

oh but you're wrong on the momentum thing. go look up ANGULAR momentum on wikipedia. and once you've dont that go look it up on youtube and if you're still interested go look it up in your high-school math books. Alternatively go sit on a swivel chair with a large weight in each hand at arms length from you and get someone to spin you then pull the weights in towards you and you will speed up. move them away again and you will slow down - that is angular momentum. NOte: when I say that gyroscopes resits rotation s I am of course refering to rotations of the axis of rotation. CAVIAT: I had my wisdom teeth out this morning and am drugged up to my eyeballs and beyond