Patent issued for anti-gravity device Nov/05

[hogleg]

Hmmmmm
http://www.physorg.com/news8042.html


forum discussion:
http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=3561


(One guy's responce)lol

The only anti gravity device I know of is an application of 2 fundamental and universial constants (and you can build it yourself!)

1 Cats always land on their feet - FACT
2 Toast always lands buttered side down - FACT

Simply tape the buttered side of the toast to the cats paws and this Cat-Toast asembly will just hover above the ground.

[neillomax]

Toast doesn't always land butter side down. Haven't you ever watched Mythbusters ?

[@(...:.:...)@]

rofl

You could always tape two cats together then.

[Splaetos]

I love mythbusters... and believe me, cats dont ALWAYS land on thier feet....

Hey! Dont judge me! I was a little kid, it was a science experiment!

[hogleg]

This isn't really about cats or toast, Doesn't anyone else find it just a little strange that the US Patent office is awarding patends for a anti-gravity device?

[jv_map]

Uhhm yeah, quite although I would like one of such lashed to my backyard tree...

[Elgan]

there are already anti gravity devices, just none that are comercial.

This is not one of them:
Edit: nm the cat pic dissapeared

[At0miC]

Aye, well a guy named Gary McKinnon who hacked some military computers has found information about some secret antigravity technology. He also found names of unknown vehicles and officers.
I dunno how much of this is true anyway.

However if it's possible to make an anti gravity machine (which sounds odd ), it might safe us a lot of energy in any kind and lots of problems can be solved.

[Rookie One.pl]

Or to the contrary, it might get us even more trouble. There's a reason some technologies don't go public.

[Splaetos]

or it doesnt exist.

First explain to me how a theoreticaly sound antigravity engine of some sort works, and then you can tell me they exist. =)

[@(...:.:...)@]

set sv_gravity 0.

You could kind of make a hover platform with loads of magnets repeling each other ;D

[Rookie One.pl]

In the most extreme case the device would just be torn apart and still be affected by gravity.

[hogleg]

Who's going to be willing to test such theorys or devices? The US government tried experimenting with Nikola Tesla's theorys and got in a world of hurt.
http://www.crystalinks.com/phila.html

[tltrude]

The other day I saw a TV show about failed inventions. I was suprised to learn that the government had built nuclear powered jet engines back in the 50's! They even built a test aircraft. It only failed because they could not shield the crew from radiation (shielding made it too heavy). If it had worked, there would be aircraft that could fly for weeks, without landing, around today.

[jv_map]

The other day I saw a TV show about failed inventions. I was suprised to learn that the government had built nuclear powered jet engines back in the 50's! They even built a test aircraft. It only failed because they could not shield the crew from radiation (shielding made it too heavy). If it had worked, there would be aircraft that could fly for weeks, without landing, around today.

Hmm very interesting I never knew that

However considering the amount of complaints currently filed by people about the noises jet engines make, imagine what would be their reactions would they have nuclear power plants overhead

Maybe the anti-grav device is a more viable concept

P.S. a slight variation to @(...:.:...)@'s idea... would a brick tower qualify as an anti-grav device?