Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Mad Scientist Type Stuff!

A fellow has built a 26 ton ball, that he's gonna fill with molten metal, and then spin for a while, to find out more about planetary magnetic fields. The full story and a cool little vid is over at NPR.

(Found by neatorama)


***Update***
Just found
this digging around on reddit - NASA Makes Magnetic Fields Visible...it's mind blowingly cool!

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