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the art of letting gravity lose an argument it usually wins
means Resting or moving on the surface of a liquid or in the air without sinking or falling, buoyed by the medium around it.
from From Old English 'flotian,' to float or swim, rooted in the same ancient Germanic source that gave us 'fleet' and 'flow' — a family of words all circling the idea of water and the things that ride on it. The 'oat' sound carries a long lineage of bobbing, drifting, and staying up when by rights you ought to go down.
- dead sea
- So salty humans bob like helpless corks
- sensory tanks
- Float pods erase touch, sound, and light
- icebergs
- Nine-tenths lurk hidden beneath the surface
- market term
- Currencies float when no government pins them
- brain trick
- Astronauts float because they're endlessly falling around Earth
uros islands — floating islands on lake titicaca made entirely of totora reeds by the uros people in peru since pre-incan times
floating gardens of xochimilco — chinampas artificial islands in mexico city built by aztecs around 1200 ad, still used for agriculture today