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Gravitational Repulsion Effect Claimed
TekPolitik writes: "Eugene Podkletnov, the physicist who claimed to have discovered an anomalous gravitational "shielding" effect in the 90s, but withdrew his original paper prior to publication, has finally published a new paper on the topic. The paper describes a new experiment that is related to the original experiment, but the nature of the new experiment is more suggestive of an inverse gravitational effect (that is, the device creates a gravitational push away from it), or in Trekkie terms, a repulsor beam. Aside from claiming to have pushed things around at a distance, Podkletnov claims that the results directly contradict general relativity." Let's see if I can summarize: the author claims that with a certain very cold superconductor transmitting a large quantity of electricity in an intense magnetic field, he has observed a "new" force which repulses objects.
When we ran electricty into a conductor, and things get pushed away we called it:
GRAVITY
Bullwinkle: "Rocky? Why is that mountain floating?"
Rocky: (excited) "Bullwinkle! We've found the source of UpsiDaisium!"
Boris: "The moose and squirrel have found it. Now we get rid of moose and squirrel."
Natasha: "But how do we get to the mountain Boris dear if we kill moose and squirrel?"
"Face it, a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
I'd say it would have to be exceptionally unbelievable. I'm still waiting for a theory on those green women that Kirk was always hot for...
Give them an inch and they'll take a foot. Much more than that, you won't have a leg to stand on.
It was probably windy that day
"I see. The fact that you...`can't explain'.. explains everything."
Does Alex Chiu know about this yet?! :^)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
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Hooked up to my computer is a device which shoots ions onto a curved piece of glass. When I stop passing electrons to this device, and place a piece paper on it, the paper is pulled to it. Like gravity. My new energy source. I have documented my ion device in more detail here.
Newsflash!
The Gravity Advocates Association (GAA) has announced plans to file suit against the "repulsor beam", claiming it "circumvents established gravitational force technology"
In other news, Podkletnov has been arrested by the FBI and is being held without bail on charges of "violating basic scientific laws"
"Gravitational Field." Hmph! This whole story is repulsive!
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Well, as it was said in a previous post, the 'effect' could be due to ferrous contamination...
So- what is more contaminated with iron than the earth itself?!
I'm sure we all know about the "Repulsorlift" which is a common piece of technology in the Star Wars Universe.. Well, now we have it..
Vehicles that can float about the ground and glide along? Screw maglev rails..
The galaxy far far away has become just that much nearer.. And, what with cloning on the horizon, we're almost there! (although, if we do ever reach the Star Wars Universe, I feel that a pre-emptive strike to wipe out the entire Gungan species could be a good idea, for the sanity of the entire galaxy)
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It's called a subwoofer.
Big woop, so now it's superconducting.
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(someone had to say it)
All you have to do is strap buttered bread to the back of a cat.
For as long as I can remember, I have been able to repulse objects. When I step up to a woman, *bammo*, she starts moving in the opposite direction. At first I thought this was an explainable force having something to do with "my face" or "my bony frame." But recent tests seem to indicate that the force is of unknown origin, a force, that perhaps, runs contrary to all known laws of physics. Too bad I was unable to publish my paper before this bozo. Mine would have been a lot more entertaining.
So what you're saying is that we're getting closer to developing a main deflector dish?
Coming up right after that is the inverse tachyon pulse, I suppose...
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
No reason for haiku
Must have been gravitation
Pulled him to the task
yes, shortly after beginning the research, he inexplicably was shot off into outer space.
Just raise the taxes on crack.
And now we know, it also blows!