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| Thread ID: 78720 | 2007-04-26 03:27:00 | "Mars only three hours away!!" | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 544407 | 2007-04-26 08:52:00 | My wife was fitted with a coil and a ring, didn't get her very far. Sorry? Coil and ring? |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 544408 | 2007-04-26 08:58:00 | The trouble with a theory like this is that, sooner or later, someone is going to be proved Right or Wrong. Was the guy who flew too close to the Sun & whose wing glue melted, right or wrong? I believe he was told it was impossible. Boing 747 what??? PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 544409 | 2007-04-26 09:04:00 | Ignore my post R2, if ya haven't already! :D Found it 2nd time through the article.... AB |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 544410 | 2007-04-26 09:05:00 | The original article I was trying to link to was here ( . newscientist . com/article/mg18925331 . 200-take-a-leap-into-hyperspace . html" target="_blank">space . newscientist . com) That is one hell of a theory, and one should never say never . Naysayers have been denying the possibility of scientific progress ever since Groog first told the tribe he could light fires . Sadly he was executed where he stood, and it was another 10,000 years before mankind could enjoy a cave-cooked meal . Even Copernicus was lucky not to get his neck extended for daring to say that the Earth orbited the Sun . Anybody care to suggest that everything worth discovering has already been found and that the technology in 100 years would not leave us utterly gobsmacked if we could see it now? The intellect and thinking of some of the scientists of hundreds of years ago was able to conceive of science that their technology was totally incapable of producing . So what's different now? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 544411 | 2007-04-26 09:16:00 | Poppa, fiction is fiction . Icarus's "wing glue" didn't fail . He never took off . Nor did his father . Douglas Adams's flying method: "throw yourself at the ground, but miss" is in the same category . The Daily Mail words: "Scientists are thinking of building an extraordinary anti-gravity machine which - if it works - could make "hyperdrive" starships a reality . " demonstrate how bad some science journalism can be . Scientists are not thinking of building one . Some scientists might be looking at the theory . But these days they usually have difficulty in getting money to build machines which "if it works" could . . . . There have been many multidimensional cosmic TOEs . In the days before elliptical planetary orbits were accepted, it was possible to simulate the solar system using circular orbits, with added "epicycles" to get more and more precision of orbital prediction . However, using the correct eliptical orbits made the theory simpler, and made the fiddle factor epicycles unnecessary . I supect that someone is trying for research funding, to do some theoretical work . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 544412 | 2007-04-26 09:42:00 | .... Douglas Adams's flying method: "throw yourself at the ground, but miss" is in the same category. .... In my younger days - not so very long ago - I confess to have tried this many times. Usually after imbibing far to much of the Steinlager "muscle relaxant" - I still have some of the scars to show for my, usually oblivious-until-the-following-morning, experimentation (unpaid!!). Fortunately I have seen the error of my ways (brand-wise) and now drink less explosive mixes than "Steingrenades" ... :D .... I supect that someone is trying for research funding, to do some theoretical work This is what I should have done to finance my 'experiments' ;) |
johcar (6283) | ||
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