X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e16,50ac4d927580fd95 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e16,public X-Google-Thread: fc9f9,50ac4d927580fd95 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc9f9,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,50ac4d927580fd95 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,8461e7153691c525 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 107d75,50ac4d927580fd95 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d75,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-25 12:37:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: GreyCloud Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.flame.jesus.christ,alt.seduction.fast,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Incredible! Anti-Gravity device works and is patented 01-31-2002 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:44:53 -0800 Organization: Old Dog Still Learning New Tricks Message-ID: <3C9F8C45.5249AC2F@cumulus.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3C9CF5D7.7090806@mmcable.com> <3C9D03E4.9090806@mmcable.com> <3d2q9uk0fkp2vgj5nb15nacr508n22o1sv@4ax.com> <3C9D15D7.8070103@mmcable.com> <3C9E2499.2040906@mmcable.com> <3C9E6CBF.5070408@mmcable.com> <3C9EC912.2E5492E6@cumulus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 76 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:16253 comp.os.linux.advocacy:219264 alt.flame.jesus.christ:74331 alt.seduction.fast:80290 comp.text.tex:43377 Robert Bowmaker wrote: > > "GreyCloud" wrote in message > news:3C9EC912.2E5492E6@cumulus.com... > > Robert Bowmaker wrote: > > > > > > "Charlie Ebert" wrote in message > > > news:3C9E6CBF.5070408@mmcable.com... > > > > Robert Bowmaker wrote: > > > > >>They don't even know how electricity works yet we use it every day. > > > > >> > > > > >>Nobody has EVER seen electricity nor understand the principles of > what > > > > >>makes it work? Which direction does electricity flow in? Negative > to > > > > >>positive poles or the other way around? > > > > >> > > > > >>They've never explained any of this and we've been using electricity > for > > > > >>over a hundred years now. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Electricity happens when electrons travel from the negative terminal > to > > > the > > > > > positive terminal. Millions of people know that for certain; I think > > > you're > > > > > a little behind. > > > > > > > > > > The fact that we haven't seen electricity means that we can't use > it. We > > > > > haven't seen covalent chemical bonding happen, yet we use it all the > > > time! > > > > > > > > > > > > > This has NEVER been proven. Thanks for playing. > > > > > > It's been proven BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT. > > > > URL please. > > > > > The theory seems to fit > > > electricity's properties perfectly. Maybe it's not absolutely proven, > but it > > > works so well (i.e. it predicts everything that really happes perfectly) > > > that it doesn't really matter if it's proven or not. The same can not be > > > said for gravity, though. We don't have a clue about gravity at all, no > > > theories that really help explain it. Except of course for Superstring > > > Theory (that's another thread by itself!). Perhaps when Superstring > Theory > > > is 'finished', we'll be able to have anti-gravity things, teleporters, > time > > > travel (!)... But until then, it might be best to leave all the serious > > > speculating to the scientist. > > > > > > Also, the lifter needs ~15,000V (from memory) of electricity to work. If > you > > > scaled this 'lifter' up by a factor of 10 in all directions, would you > still > > > only need 15,000V? Or would you need 150,000V? Or even 15,000,000V? It > > > starts to get impractical. > > > > > So? What makes you think that 15megavolts is impractical? > > Tesla did this a long time ago. > > The 15000V was produced by a large power supply, which is quite heavy > (~500g - 1kg - even more???). It managed to lift just a few grams of > aluminium foil and balsa wood. For it to become self-sufficient (i.e. can > lift up its own power source), it will need to produce a lot more voltage (I > think lifting power is proportional to voltage). For it to produce more > voltage, it will need to be even heavier, which in turn will need more > voltage to lift, etc... etc... - and that's before it's started to lift any > cargo of any sort! > Why not use a van-de-graph generator??