Posted on 01/24/2006 7:38:11 AM PST by dware
Recently, on Google’s satellite photo transmitter “Google Earth,” in the Australian city of Perth, a flying car was caught on camera— levitating. How in the world is that possible? To date, not much is known about the topic, but here’s some information that was released about it.
According to the Channel Register’s (a European online news source) Oz photo interpretation bureau, the vehicle in question, described by Clinton Bird—a professor of architecture and abstract identification at the University of Auckland, is at an altitude of three or four meters and doing about 80 knots. That data rules out rocket powered turbofan outrigger engines, favored by the Moller Corporation (a corporation devoted to the development of flying, turbofan powered cars).
This leaves just one possible explanation: Australians have developed a gravity-busting engine— by putting a huge rotating ring above a super conducting coil and pumping enough electric current through the coil, resulting in a large magnetic field that will "reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to the point where it floats free". This anti-grav engine, bolted onto a second-hand Holden, is seen here in the split second before their X-Motor made the trans-dimensional leap to hyper light speed.
Ron Weasley and Harry Potter skipping out of Hogwarts again.
I vote that it is a car on a stick.
Odd. That looks just like my flying car that was stolen last year (by a man on stilts) while it sat hovering above my driveway. How it got to Australia, I don't know.
How can they tell the speed from one picture?
Looks more like a water tanker that is towed and then raised at or near a location to provide gravity fed water.
I like that explanation. Compare the size of the object to the parking spaces nearby. It is either a huge car, at a very high altitude (which is disproved by the sharp nearby shadow), or something other than a car.
Unfortunately there aren't any other clear shadows to use to check the height of the object. If you had a date, time and exact location, you could figure out the sun's angle and get a better idea on altitude.
It ain't flying anywhere as it is held down by some sturdy support framework.
See also, at The Register:
Oz flying car takes reader flak
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/24/flying_car_letters/
It looks like a board pin to me, am I missing something here?
Was it an old Ford Anglia with a bunch of red-haired kids in it?
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I drove by a junk yard the other day that had a car mounted up in the air on a pole.
Since they don't disclose the actual location,I'm saying (A)Photoshop,or (B)something dark next to the actual vehicle that makes it appear as though it's floating.
I'm not persuaded it's a car at all. Could be balloons or something else.
I'd like to know how anyone can infer that the thing is moving at all (unless there are other frames available).
I have no idea what it is. But based on what I see in this photo, I think it is a stretch to conclude that we're looking at a flying car.
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It's a white car next to a black one.
Local car dealer's roadside advert............
Aussie-ingenuity-from-google-earth PING.
Off the beaten path once again....
Mayflower Moving used to have a moving van on stilts as their sign in Parkville, Maryland. I think I see some type of poles holding the "car" up in the air, so I agree with you - probably a weird kind of sign.
It is the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars!! Why!!! Why!!! Why!!!
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