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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Anti-Gravity Devices
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Date: 25 Jul 90 23:11:38 GMT
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  RE: Antigravity stuff. :)

  I believe I've come across two such items (hey, what can I say, I sent 
away for that material when I was a kid :).
  The first item I've seen is merely a hovercraft.
  The second item was a great deal more interesting, but completely
theoretical (and likely impossible).  It was based on centrifugal force
and required that the spinning object by harnessed when it spun AWAY from 
the pull of gravity.  I think they tried to base it on the gyroscope
principle.  Anyway, by harnessing the force of the object when it opposed 
gravity, you were able to generate "anti-gravity".  It was a while ago,
so I don't remember if they explained how to do this (you mech techs
know that it don't work :) but they continued and theorized that if
electrons could be harnessed in this way, you'd have a perfect anti-gravity 
generator.  (You would...except that you can't harness the centrifugal 
force of something spinning at the speed of light :)

Charles_K_Hughes@cup.portal.com