Re: [FT] Magnetic Bases

On 26-Jul-99 at 09:56, Buddy Chamberlain (buddy@movnet.com) wrote:
> I dunno about the pen, and I am far from a physicist, but if you put a
ring
> of powerful magnets on say, an AOL coaster, all with the same pole
facing
> upward, with a little help from some super glue, and then another
magnet on
> the ship you wanted to float, with the same pole facing downward,
wouldn't
> it sit in the "trough" of the ring?  I don't have any magnets on me,
or I'd
> go home and try this tonight, but from what I know about them, that
should
> work, right?	If it did, you could make all your major FT ships
"floaties."
> :o)

As long as you had the the magnet well above the center of mass of the
ship.  Otherwise the thing would be unstable, flip over, and be sucked
into a supporting magnet.

The novelty stores in our mall carry floating things like this.  You
might take a look around.

Roger Books