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Those Amazing Antigravity Machines?

Posted by simoniker on from the up-up-and-improbably-away dept.

surfimp writes "Wired is running an interesting article about 'lifters', hovering UFO-looking vehicles that have no moving parts, no onboard power supply, and are capable of levitating simply through the application of high amounts of electrical current. Enthusiasts claim their vehicles are examples of a nascent antigravity technology, while more traditional scientists - including some funded by NASA - view them as nothing more than contraptions harnessing ionic winds."

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  1. EARLY POST FOR SID=31337 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMFG!! VLAGGOT!! LOL!!! VLAGGOT!! LOL ROFFLE LOFFLE VLAGGOT VLAGGOT!!!

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  2. Re:Official SLASHDOTTER postal flip out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    REAL Ultimate Power!!!

    Slashdotters are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants.

    Facts:

    1.Slashdotters are mammals.
    2. Slashdotters slashdot sites ALL the time.
    3. The purpose of the slashdotters is to bring down small sites to their knees, to run Linux, and to get first posts of course.

  3. Re:Official ENGINEER postal flip out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    REAL Ultimate Power!!!

    EEs are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants.

    Facts:

    1. EEs are mammals.
    2. EEs solve equations ALL the time.
    3. The purpose of the EE is to flip out and write matlab code.

  4. Better picture. by Nathdot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You can find a better picture of the antigravity machine here!

  5. Re:Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I love peep shows and naked australians.

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  6. Calling the First meeting of KHA to order. by Sir_Dill · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi,
    My Name is Sir_Dill.......and....I...........uh.......I, am a Karma Whore.

    I skimmed the article looking for Tims name and a an actual link to the site.
    My OCR software must have glitched and in my excitement to truely post what I thought was a golden nugget of information....
    I was sooo close....one degree of separation from a ./ story! I soo badly wanted to post it that I didn't take the due dilligence to actually READ the whole article.

    As punishment I shall become the posterboy for RTFA Activists everywhere.

    Tim has some interesting things to say....a little scary sometimes but I think its all on the level. This is nothing new as other posters have pointed out.

    Again....I am miserably and humbly embarassed. So lookit the monkey and forget about it already.

  7. Re:I built one a while back. by starburst · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    This message written using the Dvorak keyboard layout

    Is that supposed to explain the typos?