[Fitzcarraldo]

But it is also apparent that Podkletnov’s work could be engineered into a radical new weapon. The GRASP paper focuses on Podkletnov’s claims that his high-power experiments, using a device called an ‘impulse gravity generator’, are capable of producing a beam of ‘gravity-like’ energy that can exert an instantaneous force of 1,000g on any object — enough, in principle, to vaporise it, especially if the object is moving at high speed.

Podkletnov maintains that a laboratory installation in Russia has already demonstrated the 4in (10cm) wide beam’s ability to repel objects a kilometre away and that it exhibits negligible power loss at distances of up to 200km. Such a device, observers say, could be adapted for use as an anti-satellite weapon or a ballistic missile shield. Podkletnov declared that any object placed above his rapidly spinning superconducting apparatus lost up to 2% of its weight.

Latest Podkletnov Results:

Impulse Gravity Generator Based on Charged YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-y} Superconductor with Composite Crystal Structure

[Fitzcarraldo]

Updates previous posts here on this subject.
Note the discussion of Russian export controls and
the latest Podkletnov force beam experiments.

[OBAFGKM]

Antigravity ping

[MaxwellWolf]

Are the sheikhs shaking yet!

[B-Chan]

< boggle > Holy cow! Is this for real? < /boggle >

[Elsie]

the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) attempted to replicate his work in the mid-1990s. Because NASA lacked Podkletnov’s unique formula for the work, the attempt failed.

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DUH!

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With apologies to Miss Cleo, let me predict now,

"Even HAVING Podkletnov’s unique formula for the work, the attempt failed again!!"

[thinden]

wary inkterestink!

[mhking]

[LS]

History tells us that the next big breakthrough in ANY given technology will not come from a leader in the field (see buggies/autos, baloons/aircraft, sliderulers/computers, etc.) There is always an exception, but I have always thought that the next big transportation breakthrough will not be an "electric car" but either a hydrogen car or an anti-grav/anti-magnetic device.

[martin gibson]

The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Anti-Gravity Technology , author: Nick Cook

Get thee to a library...

[Matchett-PI]

Newton's Laws, Upended - S. Adams, 08.12.02
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/0812/128.html

"The Nazis, General Electric and Sperry-Rand all sought to harness antigravity. Next up: Boeing?

Author Nick Cook has all the qualifications of a hard-nosed reporter. For more than a decade he has worked as aviation editor at Jane's Defence Weekly, the respected (if mind-numbingly technical) trade journal for the defense industry. So why has he penned a book on a topic usually confined to pulp sci-fi--antigravity? In The Hunt for Zero Point (Broadway, $26), due out this month, he chronicles his quest to show that Newton's laws have been annulled. It's a dramatic, entertaining tale, with a clear lesson: Corporations, universities and governments never tire of throwing good money at bad science.

His story starts in 1992, when a photocopy of a 1956 news clipping is left mysteriously on his desk at Jane's. "The G-Engines Are Coming!" shouts its headline. There's an illustration of a football-shaped craft hovering above the ground. The text predicts a future of "weightless airliners and spaceships." More intriguing are the enthusiastic predictions from such esteemed figures of the day as George S. Trimble of Martin Aircraft and Lawrence D. Bell, founder of Bell Aircraft, who proclaims, "We're already working on nuclear fuels and equipment to cancel out gravity." Using the Jane's library, Cook learns that big American companies, including Sperry-Rand and General Electric, seriously pursued "electrogravitics [a.k.a. antigravity] research."

He scours the Internet and public archives, phones contacts in the defense industry. He talks to Evgeny Podkletnov, a Russian physicist who claims to have achieved antigravity effects in his lab. Cook even delves into a mystery dating from the last days of World War II, when Allied pilots reported seeing UFOs over Germany.

The Nazi angle takes Cook to Austria, where he visits the family of the late Viktor Schauberger, a forestry engineer and inventor who experimented with a machine called a Repulsine. According to Schauberger's copious notes, the Nazi-funded device generated such a powerful levitational force that it shot upward and smashed into a hangar ceiling. Cook admits he doesn't completely grasp the physics, writing, "The primary levitating force was due to ... a reaction between the air molecules in their newly excited state and the body of the machine itself."

Huh? And why would the normally skeptical Cook believe the unverified notes of a forestry engineer transplanted far beyond his ken? Because, says Cook, "People don't throw money at programs unless they think they work"--blithely ignoring humankind's propensity for taking daft things seriously. Case in point: cold fusion, as well as other screwball free-energy schemes funded by corporations or governments. University of Maryland physicist Robert L. Park has documented such projects in Voodoo Science (Oxford University Press, $15). Park, who read a prepublication copy of Zero Point, chuckles at some of Cook's conclusions. "In my book I discuss something I call a 'belief gene.' This guy Cook's got it. He's simply prepared to believe anything."

What about Cook's reporting? He describes, for example, antigravity projects now under way at NASA and at BAE Systems in the U.K. FORBES' phone calls to these organizations verified Cook's facts, though folks were awfully careful with their language. Ronald Evans, the physicist in charge at BAE, says, "We don't use the word [antigravity]. It would make us look like lunatics." Funding is small--$3.25 million for BAE's and NASA's work combined, over seven years--but the fact that money gets spent at all is testimony to the prevalence of the belief gene. The U.S. Congress keeps dollars flowing. Since 2000 it has allocated an additional $4.8 million for antigravity research. In a July issue of Jane's, Cook reports Boeing conducted experiments involving antigravity as recently as 1999 and remains intensely interested in further research. (Boeing confirms this, but, like BAE, disdains to use the a-word.)

Cook is an engaging writer, and he peppers his high-tech detective story with digressions both rich and entertaining. His book is a fun read. But it lacks a certain ... gravity." ~ ~

Maybe "Cook" should be spelled, "KOOK". Or maybe he's just a KOOK baiter.

[MD_Willington_1976]

WooHoo I'm getting a mattel hover boards for Christmas I just know it...Joking aside, if its true then that is a pretty cool technology.

[carpio]

It is a proven and well known fact that Bumble Bee's can not fly.

[Lancey Howard]

I would like an anti-gravity belt.
Or boots.

[maestro]

Sure,.........got any bridges for sale?

[dixie sass]

Does this have anything to with the movement of objects from one space to another or is this like the Philadelphia project or on the lines of cold fusion?

I know that seems like a silly question to most of you, but I really don't understand but am trying to.

[JameRetief]

You might be interested in the following thread, starting at post 52. Russian scientist has Anti-Gravity technology? (My Title)