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[[Person at desk with Gyroscope]]
Narrator: Despite years of studying physics, I still find gyroscopes a little freaky.
[[Person starts gyroscope with a zzzzip]]
[[Gyroscope spins with a zzzzzz]]
[[Gyroscope lifts into the air]]
Gyroscope: Greetings, Human.
{{title text: We didn't actually land on the moon -- it just looked like we did because of precession. Also, gyroscopes caused 9
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