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Breaking the Law of Gravity
Wired Magazine Archives ^ | FR Post 11-25-2002 (Issue 6.03 - Mar 1998 ) | By Charles Platt

Posted on 11/25/2002 5:15:47 PM PST by vannrox

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41 posted on 11/26/2002 6:58:33 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: vannrox
Antigravity Beamship Press Release

For Immediate Release
Contact:
Russ Gibb
WDHS Student Video
Dearborn High School
19501 West Outer Drive
Dearborn, MI 48124
313.730.3104
russgibb@wdhsvideo.org


"Beam Me Up Scotty" Anti-gravity: Fact or Fiction?

Dearborn High video/computer students are the first high school students in the world to build an antigravity machine for
2002-2003 Metro-Detroit Science Fair.


Yes, you can say impossible. Yes, you can say it defies Newton's 3rd law of gravity. Yes, you can say it's done with smoke and
mirrors. Nevertheless three teenage Dearborn High students, Luke Duncan, 16, Ethan Rein, 17, and Jim Bergren, 16, built and
flew an antigravity aircraft last Sunday in the school video/computer studio.


It has no fans, no jets, and no engines. It makes no sound, and yet it flies. In fact the first time that the students flew the craft it
went up so fast and high that in future flights the craft had to be tethered or it just kept going up and up. The only power that is
supplied to the beam ship is a thin electrical conducting wire that connects to the fuselage of the balsa wood and aluminum foil
craft.
At first the students thought that it was working on a theory called the ion wind, whereby electrons fly through the air displacing
air molecules thereby creating a small wind effect. Yet recently a similar craft was built at Purdue University and put in a
vacuum chamber but it still flew. Oops, there goes another theory.


The students have been working with physicists and inventors all over the world to help them with their project including the
Russian physicist Dr. Podkletnov who now lives in Finnland, The French Inventor Jean-Louis Naudin, American inventor
Russell Anderson, President of Applied Electrogravitics, American Antigravity's Tim Ventura, their teacher Mr. Russ Gibb,
Michigan Technology Teacher of the Year 2000, as well as many other people who have been building and working on lifters
for years.


Interestingly, this year is the 100-year anniversary of the Wright brothers first flight and also in the early 1900s, Nikola Tesla,
the electrical genius, and physicist George S. Piggot were doing experiments on anti-gravity.


If you would like to see the craft take off and fly visit http://www.wdhsvideo.org and click on the picture of the craft, or contact Mr.
Gibb at 313-730-3104.
42 posted on 11/27/2002 8:47:28 AM PST by Some hope remaining.
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To: vannrox
Very interesting. Thanks for posting it. I don't know about NASA's interest in blocking/reflecting gravity; I do know they have an interest in levitation because my first job was in an electrostatic levitation laboratory at JPL.
43 posted on 11/28/2002 8:18:36 PM PST by altair
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To: Some hope remaining.
If a teacher wrote this piece, I'd take my kids out of that school.
44 posted on 12/13/2002 12:35:25 PM PST by Junior
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To: PatrickHenry
Sounds like me and my perpetual motion machine. I feel like a kindred soul.

Me, I expect all the questions to be answered tonight on the last episode of "Taken".

45 posted on 12/13/2002 12:46:10 PM PST by js1138
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... tonight on the last episode of "Taken".

I've tried watching it. Very boring.

46 posted on 12/13/2002 12:48:46 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
It is slow, but I've caught up on all the alien theories out there. Makes up for missing umpteen years of X-Files, and it's better than E.T.

It also reminds me just how difficult it is to make a case for UFOs as alien spaceships. The better and more convincing the special effects, the more implausible.

47 posted on 12/13/2002 12:54:28 PM PST by js1138
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To: vannrox
Bump .... so long as the auto pilots and stuff aren't powered by microsoft this should be pretty good :)
48 posted on 12/13/2002 12:56:03 PM PST by Centurion2000
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To: js1138
and it's better than E.T.

The same could be said of watching paint dry.

49 posted on 12/13/2002 1:35:48 PM PST by Junior
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To: wcbtinman
I realize this is a dead thread, but I read your response about the guy in Florida would built the corral castle. Strangely, he was also from Finland...
50 posted on 05/09/2003 7:41:52 PM PDT by plusone
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To: Physicist
This article is almost five years old. No progress since then?

Not holding my breath placemarker.

51 posted on 05/09/2003 7:45:59 PM PDT by js1138
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To: The Great RJ
Re: Didn't Al Gore invent anti-gravity ?

Al needs anti grav for this gut.

52 posted on 05/09/2003 7:49:31 PM PDT by ChadGore (It's all an Amish plot(c))
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To: AnAmericanMother
Gravity sucks.
53 posted on 05/09/2003 7:50:20 PM PDT by ChadGore (It's all an Amish plot(c))
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To: wcbtinman
This is old stuff. The guy who built the 'Coral Castle' in S Fl. said he figured out the secrets of the Egyptians as to how to move multi-ton blocks of stone. Nobody has been able to figure out how he did move those stones. My father had a keen interest in this project, as he delivered some of the stone blocks to the work site with his truck. He thought the guy used the principle of magnetism in that like poles repel each other to move the stones. The builder wouldn't let anyone see how he did it. Neat mystery.

I don't think the guy in Florida used giant superconducting disks in nitrogen baths to suspend his blocks so this isn't "old stuff". There are legends of "singing stones" that the guy in Florida may have been using if that story is true.

54 posted on 05/10/2003 4:49:54 AM PDT by #3Fan
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To: ChadGore
No -

There is no GRAVITY - the EARTH sucks.

(Or so said a bumper sticker I recall from my misspent hippie youth . . . )

55 posted on 05/11/2003 10:28:34 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: vannrox
bump
56 posted on 05/11/2003 10:33:13 AM PDT by green team 1999
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To: FairOpinion
Ping!

57 posted on 04/30/2005 6:58:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FR profiled updated Monday, April 11, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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