Xref: utzoo alt.alien.visitors:607 sci.energy:4774 sci.electronics:20027 sci.skeptic:10769 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!pharaoh!martin From: martin@pharaoh.UUCP (Martin Gorman) Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy,sci.energy,sci.electronics,sci.skeptic Subject: Re: INFO: How To Build A UFO - T Pawlicki, Nikola Tesla Summary: Oh dear Message-ID: <476@pharaoh.UUCP> Date: 9 May 91 09:33:34 GMT References: Organization: British Telecom Lines: 15 In article , jaguar@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) writes: > > you could somehow magically produce enough static charge to repel a ship (one > would have to oppositely charge the ground, which for all intents and purposes > is electrically neutral) a quick calculation shows that before any levitation > would occur a huge electrical discharge would happen between the ground and the > saucer. (That's why we get lightning, when there are two differently charged > areas on the ground and in cloudcover, a discharge equalizes the two) Any > saucer fliers would be fried rather quickly. > This discharge would of course occur because areas of opposite charge attract each other. One would have to SIMILARLY charge the ground (which is no less difficult, but would make you look less of a twat if you were trying to levitate a flying saucer). Oppositely charging would make an excellent saucer trap though.