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The failure of the scientific community in not continuing to pursue the goal of levitating increasingly large fauna can not be overstated. It’s 2023 and we’ve devoted untold billions to finding the Higgs boson, to landing and reusing orbital rockets, and yet, I can’t go on YouTube and find a video of a levitating giraffe. Sad.

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Agree, it feels like levitating a giraffe has been five years away for the last twenty years. The problem is private industry doesn't have a profit incentive to make the leap until it feels like a sure thing.

Word on the street is that the government has had levitating giraffes (and maybe even bigger creatures) for years but it's all so locked up in the classified world that the tech will never see the light of day.

That's ridiculous, I saw a levitating giraffe just the other day.

What about levitating humans?

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