[moxhets]

"More wasted tax dollars"
Umm.....Ticket dollars maybe, a little investment capital. No tax dollars though. Your thinking black budget Pentagon stuff. Boeing is a civilian company.

[lelio]

No tax dollars though. Your thinking black budget Pentagon stuff. Boeing is a civilian company.
I can't see Boeing, going through laying off tens of thousands in its commercial aircraft division, of paying for this themselves.

From the article:
The scientist says he found that objects above a superconducting ceramic disc rotating over powerful electromagnets lost weight.
That's a small object on the order of grams floating an inch above a magnet. Unless you turn the whole earth into one big magnet this is pointless. Hey wait ... the earth is one big magnet ...

[El Gato]

No tax dollars though. Your thinking black budget Pentagon stuff. Boeing is a civilian company

Yeah, kinda sorta. I suspect most of the stuff going on at the Phantom Works, like at its Lockheed equivalent the Skunk Works, is DoD funded. Some NASA too of course. Very little of Boeings own money, and even that is tax coded leveraged IR&D money.

[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.