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Anti-Gravity Device Patented

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shouldn't-it-have-to-work-before-you-patent dept.

October_30th writes "According to the United States Patent Office website, Boris Volfson has recently patented a "Space vehicle propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state", which is essentially an anti-gravity propulsion device." The validity of this patent remains to be seen, but the general consensus of the physics community seems to be that it is complete malarky.

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  1. usermilk does it again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first post post first

  2. Re:Slashdot a couple days late by yup2000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    and on slashdot....

  3. Oh yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fist my prost

  4. Re:I'll tell you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, maybe next time you'll check the spelling before creating an username. After all, this is /. and nobody would expect the editors to get exotic words like 'malarkey' right.

  5. Re:Sorry by Cylix · · Score: 1, Troll

    well maybe someone will dupe this one for you...

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/20/013022 8&tid=133&tid=126

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