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British Rail's Flying Saucer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-manchester-and-beyond dept.

Dynamoo writes "The Register is carrying a story about a patent for a fusion powered spacecraft filed by British Rail in the 1970s. While the concept may seem silly for a public railway, it seems that the British Rail Research Division employed a large number of aircraft engineers who presumably had some spare time between projects such as the Advanced Passenger Train."

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  1. The other articles... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Very strange one at the bottom. "Readers may recall back in 2002 there was an awful fuss kicked up when Rusi Taleyarkhan announced he had achieved one of science's holy grails: tabletop fusion. The claim was met with understandable scepticism"

    What the hell? The Farnsworth Fusor's been working for four decades, what skepticism???

  2. Hmmmm... by rspress · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought Al Gore invented the flying saucer........or at least came from one?

  3. Re:Other patents... by kilodelta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That wouldn't help me. I need one that constantly scans to see what my smallest cat has in her mouth. She's been known to rip the little suckers open and then stuff them under the couch cushions.

    She's a very sweet cat otherwise and she does keep the rodent problem in check to some degree so I've decided to keep her. After all, it's been 13 years.