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Monorail Cat:
Ok, this has been absolutely killing me since yesterday.  I am talking about that model where you have a stationary ring, and inside that, is a slightly smaller ring that spins around, and inside that is another ring that spins around, and so on.  What is the thing's name?  The only picture I can find of something that resembels what I'm talking about is the alien machine thing in Carl Sagan's "Contact": Spoiler (click to show/hide)
For some reason, I am being murdered in my head because I can't figure this out.  It's kinda hard to get good results on Google when your only description is "ring with rings spinning inside".  HELP ME PLEASE!

Captain Communism:
I think that's a gyroscope.

Yeah... it is.

Monorail Cat:
Wow... I always thought gyroscopes were all these things:Spoiler (click to show/hide)http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4807095994615425&pid=1.7
Anyways, thank you very much for answering.  I may now sleep tonight.

Bomb Squad:
Yeah, that image Monorail posted is what I thought gyroscopes were also.

Captain Communism:
Gyroscope Motion Simulation

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