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From: dlou@dino.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
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Subject: Re: Anti-Gravity Devices
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Date: 21 Jul 90 09:01:41 GMT
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In article <78707@aerospace.AERO.ORG< goldstein@arecibo.aero.org (Fogbound Child) writes:
<In article <3794@bwdls58.UUCP>, hwt@.bnr.ca (Henry Troup) writes...
<>In article <5902@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> levene@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene) writes:
<>>In article <1990Jul7.094106.1004@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
<>>cscon143@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
<>>>	electronics magazine I run across an ad for plans for
<>>>	an anti-gravity device.  I was wondering if anyone has
<>>This is your lucky day!
<>Cute pseudo-flame deleted.
<>I've seen those ads, too. I never wasted the money on them when I was a poor
<>student, but I too would like to know that you get.  Maybe I'll have to try
<>it.  (Obviously, you get 'taken' - but what kind of plans to they send?)
<
<Well, I can think of a dozen good anti-gravity devices. Or perhaps, I should 
<be more specific, and refer to them as gravity-opposing devices, since they 
<operate counter to, say, Earth's gravitational field. You'll also not that 
<gravity has nothing to do with it, but they're not going to mention that in 
<the ads.
<
<A few examples of such devices: airplanes, helicopters, air-hocky-boards and 
<pucks, etc.

Oh come now, everyone knows that an airfoil converts the air drag
generated from the pull of gravity into forward motion which is then
translated into lift via turbulent flow!  :-)


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