Ron_Hardin comments on Perpetual Motion Beliefs - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ron_Hardin 29 February 2008 09:27:39PM 1 point [-]

gyroscope

That was actually a joke. Though people would be hard-pressed to guess what happens if you try it.

Gyroscopes are very unintuitive, because people intuitively but incorrectly think that pushing on something changes its position, a mistake that gyroscopes bring out.