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From the comments to the video:
Q: What’s the physics behind the second direction change?
A: It’s precession all the way, just like Earth does. Normally you’d explain that the Earth precession is like a spinning top tilting around in circles, but looking at the circular motion along the axis it moves in space it becomes a sine wave. If the lane was twice as long it would start going left again later on and so on until friction overcomes the spin. Edit: Adding to this, there is also a cosine wave motion going on in the axis direction that would show slight variations in forward speed.
A new report shows that more people die while taking selfies than die from shark attacks.
Coming soon from SyFy: “Selfnado”.
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In Nantucket, an upscale gym has opened with a $120,000 initiation fee.
That’s outrageous! Why’s it so high? Did the government try to make it free?
Great news: President Obama just secured a trade deal that puts American workers first. http://ofa.bo/c5Dw #LeadOnTrade
“…in line for unemployment checks. But FIRST!”
A new report shows that Pentagon-trained rebels in Syria have betrayed the US and handed their weapons over to al-Qaeda.
Personally, I have no problem sending weapons to al-Qaeda – via airstrikes.