Boeing tries to defy gravity

BBC News - Science and Technology ^ | Monday, 29 July, 2002, 03:23 GMT 04:23 UK | Editorial Staff

[JameRetief]

You might be interested in the following thread, starting at post 52. Russian scientist has Anti-Gravity technology? (My Title)

[vannrox]

Thanks for the info. Interesting and well travelled post. I have alot to read there.

[alloysteel]

Interesting if the concept can be made into a workable anti-gravity system. I see enormous engineering possibilities, in removal of huge quantities of material without the use of blasting and hauling away rubble, in fine-tuning retrieval of fallen items or material, or in widespread land transportation systems. This is way beyond using hydrogen-powered fuel cells, and would probably make that technology obsolete within a very short period of time.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[MarkL]

There's no such thing as gravity...

When you're trying to fly, the earth SUCKS!

Mark

[MarkL]

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

[MarkL]

The Universe is SO LARGE,--& We are so Small!

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

[smonk]

. . . and in a related story, Bert Bamboo, the chinese alcoholic, claims that he has invented a perpetual motion machine.

[antaresequity]

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?

[anymouse]

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.

[snowsislander]

The ether doesn't exist per the Michael-Michelob experiments in late 1800's.

I believe that perhaps you mean the Michelson-Morley experiment?

[Petronski]

Sometimes all I can say is 'wow.'