'Lifters'

[senocular]

This is a pretty cool article over at WIRED

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_antigravity.html

I was a little syched at first, then it went a way a little bit ;) but overall its pretty cool.

My favorite quote is:

"My wife almost never comes down here when I'm doing this stuff... And the bigger arcs of lightning kind of freak her out."

I would imagine so.
:)

[fester8542]

Cool stuff.

I want to make a lifter.

[thoriphes]

yeah, today in their series they're doing time travel.

[Maxtr0sity]

I stuff my cats in the hall closet so they don't somehow get electrocuted.

Hahahahahahahaha.

I want one, but I still don't quite understand how it works.

=)

[Mythmon]

if you read all 4 pages youd know that they create an ion wind by elcricuting the air around it making a downward force that pushes them up, so no its not antigravity

[tobydog]

Main Entry: 1an·ti·grav·i·ty
Pronunciation: "an-ti-'gra-v&-tE, "an-"tI-
Function: adjective
Date: 1944
: reducing, canceling, or protecting against the effect of gravity



I think it is antigravity...


TD

[Maxtr0sity]

Odd that exists. I still have some misconceptions of it though. Anyone have any pictures?

=)

[thoriphes]

lol, i wonder how you protect against gravity.

[Jubba]

metal shoes?

[Maxtr0sity]

Lol, I'd think magnetic shoes on metal surfaces. Like in the ones they have in space movies.

=)

[senocular]

http://www.americanantigravity.com/index.html
;)

[Maxtr0sity]

Nice, they've got some pretty cool videos, thats really alsome.

=)

[Soul]

Originally posted by thoriphes
lol, i wonder how you protect against gravity. Lots of cushions? :P

[thoriphes]

being sober also protects well from gravity :thumb:

[Jubba]

yeah, I have had to hold on to the grass real tight to keep from floating away... at least a couple of times...

[thoriphes]

i remember this one time the earth was spinning faster than usual and i couldn't hold on, and it seemed everyone else had the gene or something to keep up with the earth's speed and i didn't. luckily it slowed down a bit and i found myself on the ground once more.

true story.

[Maxtr0sity]

Lol, I wonder if you go against gravity a bit, do you also not move as the speed of earth?

=)

[thoriphes]

hm...Matr"0"x, that's quite interesting. it would probably hurt though :-\

[reverendflash]

there is a theory about having all of the people in China walk at once, in stride, to the east, and slow the world to a stop...

can't remember where I heard it...


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[asphaltcowboy]

I'm sure heard somewhere that if you packed everyone in the world into the same place (as small a space as possible) and got them all to belch in the direction of the sun at the same time, it could change the orbit of the Earth

I say we try it! :thumb:

[senocular]

The problem there is the age old adage "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" If everyone in China strided to the east, it would rotate the earth westward or opposite its rotational spin. However, once that stride stopped, that energy would then go into propelling the earch eastward (as they are pushing against the earth to both propell themselves forward and pushing to stop themselves - pushing in opposite directions.

Same applies to the belching. The intake and discharge of the air has an equal and opposite reaction to itself.

... its all contained within the same continuously rotating system which relative to itself can be any combination of motion or energy, though as a whole will always amount to the rotation of the system (the entire earth) as a whole.

Now, the current slowing down of the earth is attributed to outside influences such as cosmic winds and interference of other celestial particals and whatnot. Since they are not contained within the system of the earth, they have the influence to affect the earths rotation. Of course on the whole, the universe is at a constant. ... or so one would think

:trout:

[mlk]

friends of mine did that for their science fair - ion propulsion. I guess I'll die before they will ever be made. Because their lift never worked and was nowhere near being functionnal.

But hey, it looks cool on paper ;-) !

[Niann]

I so want to build one of these things... Now all I need is some foil (check) Balsa wood (check) Wire (check) and a tessla coil... Hmmmm that last bit may be tricky. =) If anyone makes on post the video of it flying. =0)

Cheers!
-Niann

[senocular]

we made a balsa ornithopter here at work :-\ They're much easier to make =) though possibly not as cool :-\

=)