Beijing Superconductor Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes it Down
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This is only one of several videos from different sources claiming to show the substance levitating.

Beijing Superconductor (LK-99) Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes it Down::The author of one of the Billibilli videos posted as proof of LK-99’s levitation capabilities has admitted that his posting was a hoax.

China and fraud - like peanut butter and jelly, they just go together naturally

@HollandJim@lemmy.world
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21Y

I think we’re starting to lose the bigger picture - Re-read that first sentence after the headline (emphasis mine):

This is only one of several videos from different sources claiming to show the substance levitating.”

This isn’t about LK-99 per se, but one of the videos that came after the announcement, likely trying to capitalize on it if only for views. There’s still hope LK-99 can be corroborated.

FuglyDuck
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So… how much ya wanna bet this guy faked up the video to secure/maintain funding, and didn’t quite realize how far it’d go ….

… and back tracked as soon as they realized there was about to be a shitload of scrutiny.

Could have gone way worst with years of lies Theranos style

FuglyDuck
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31Y

oh absolutely.

@remotelove@lemmy.world
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51Y

I should release my paper about how I turned lead into gold. Nobody would care about that one, right?

FuglyDuck
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41Y

well, it’s already been done. (well, that may not be what’s going on in the article, but the particle accelerators have created gold… by doing their smashy-smashy thing)(I’m sure the physicists love it when we reduce decades of their work to sounding like toddlers smacking stuff together to see what happens… it’s really grown up serious science!)

@remotelove@lemmy.world
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31Y

So your saying that the person who sold me my alchemist degree and the secret formula was full of shit? Damn.

sebinspace
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351Y

Is there a word for something that is disappointing but simultaneously unsurprising?

@quinkin@lemmy.world
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41Y

Unsurpointing.

That’s terrable

Peanut
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141Y

Reality.

If it is disappointing it doesn’t fulfill your expectations. But if you expected it to happen then it’s not disappointing

Not really, disappointing also includes a failure to fulfill hopes, not just expectations. You can expect an outcome and also be disappointed by it.

The Spanish Inquisition

@demonquark@lemmy.ml
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It was the video of the guy in Seoul who went to their office that made the fraud painfully obvious.

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