Posted on 07/29/2002 2:30:12 PM PDT by vannrox
Dr Podkletnov is viewed with suspicion by many conventional scientists. They have not been able to reproduce his results.
The project is being run by the top-secret Phantom Works in Seattle, the part of the company which handles Boeing's most sensitive programmes.
The head of the Phantom Works, George Muellner, told the security analysis journal Jane's Defence Weekly that the science appeared to be valid and plausible.
Dr Podkletnov claims to have countered the effects of gravity in an experiment at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland in 1992.
The scientist says he found that objects above a superconducting ceramic disc rotating over powerful electromagnets lost weight.
The reduction in gravity was small, about 2%, but the implications - for example, in terms of cutting the energy needed for a plane to fly - were immense.
Scientists who investigated Dr Podkletnov's work, however, said the experiment was fundamentally flawed and that negating gravity was impossible.
The hypothesis is being tested in a programme codenamed Project Grasp.
Boeing is the latest in a series of high-profile institutions trying to replicate Dr Podkletnov's experiment.
The military wing of the UK hi-tech group BAE Systems is working on an anti-gravity programme, dubbed Project Greenglow.
The US space agency, Nasa, is also attempting to reproduce Dr Podkletnov's findings, but a preliminary report indicates the effect does not exist.
There's no such thing as gravity...
When you're trying to fly, the earth SUCKS!
Mark
Actually, there IS such a thing as an anti-gravity device...
You take a slice of buttered bread, and tape it securely to the belly of a cat, with the buttered side toward the cat.
You then toss the cat in the air, and because a slice of bread will always fall buttered side down, and a cat will always land on its feet, the cat will just hover in the air.
Depending on the aga and agility of the cat, and the amount of butter on the bread, the cat will hover anywhere from 1 inch to a few feet above the ground.
Mark
Not just small, but "mostly harmless!"
With apologies to Douglas Adams,
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it is a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Mark
Suppose this was using Tax Dollars, and it isn't; I suppose you would prefer the use of Tax Dollars on more down to earth programs like farm subsidy, milk tickets, bovine flatulence or spotted owl research?
Boeing is also the second largest government defense & space contractor. It is plausable that Boeing is using government research funding to pay for this foolishness.
I believe that perhaps you mean the Michelson-Morley experiment?
Sometimes all I can say is 'wow.'
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