Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "LK-99 BUSTED!!!" video.

  1. yeah, the whole 'partial levitation' thing was pretty much a delusion from the get go, sadly.
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  2. the process of how it came out lead to most people with a clue who were paying attention concluding 'this probably isn't a scam... but it's also probably wrong... but there's a Slim chance it might be an actual thing'. As events transpired and more pictures and video came out that shifted to 'these people are actually delusional'... because 'partial levitation' was litterally 'behaves exactly like a piece of iron of the same size in a magnetic field'. Which is to say, nothing like a superconductor. Still pretty sure it's not a scam, because there was no way for the 'scammers' to actually gain, well, Anything out of pretending to have something they didn't, given the way everything happened. Honestly, the entire process was more someone who got booted from the team tried to steal credit for what they Thought they had while the rest of the team was still trying to nail down if they actually Did have what they thought they did (and, importantly, the ability to replicate it reliably), and the ex-team member doing a very bad job of it in a way that made everyone else on the team look bad, then a mad scramble to salvage That situation even as the origional dubious paper had set off a cascade of internet hype.
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  3. Well, in this case there's a fair bit of evidence that it probably wasn't a Scam, just because of how the events actually transpired. But, well, it started at 'there is probably an error here, but it Might be a thing' and very quickly shifted to 'this is almost certainly an error' and then 'this thing you are claiming is proof not only isn't proof, but isn't even what you're claiming it is' with all the 'partial levitation' nonsense (and it wasn't just the people who made the thing and initially claimed it to be a room temperature super conductor who were claiming 'behaves exactly like iron in a magnetic field' was 'partial levitaiton' which somehow meant something completely different). So... yeah, dudes were wrong. Probably weren't faking or trying to scam anyone, just wrong. And to be fair, LK-99 apparently IS a bit weird and interesting. It's just... not at all a room temperature, ambiant pressure, super conductor. If they ever legitimately got results indicating such (rather than messurement errors or misinterpreted data), then it was due to something else weird happening in the manufacturing process.
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  4. ​ @doncarlodivargas5497  Do you mean that in the sense of 'normal person has no time for the leftwing radicalized idiots' nonsense' or in the sense of 'right wing radicalized idiot pretends that not mistreating women (among other groups) is somehow the reason for everything wrong with society"? Because the world needs a lot more of the former and a lot less of the latter <_<
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  5. I'd be more interested in the one they've built in Japan, to be honest. It's actually built in one of the Exceptionally Rare use cases where the specific tradeoffs that come with the advantages and disadvantages of maglev compared to regular rail actually make sense, and so it's actually indicative of whether maglev tech is equivalent to hyperloop (complete nonsense) or monorail (actually does have valid use cases where it's better than regular rail, they're just very limited). Well, to be fair, maglev is Already substantially ahead of the hyperloop. They have actually been built and used in practice, after all. Generally they've then been repalced by more suitable regular rail or the like, but they Did work. Unlike the hyperloop which... well, it never actually happened. Even the test track wasn't actually the tech that was promissed, and the actuall Result of that nonsense that got built was...well, we all know about that. Not even vaguely indicative of the initial concept.
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