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originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: Baddogma
The good trails are gone. The members who probably could probably explain the history as they lived it are few and far between. The B2 may be old news, but the nagging is there wanting me to pay attention.
I don't know about this one. Thomas Brown (pdf) - How I Control Gravity.
I never read this until today. It was always people talking about Brown. It still seems theoretical or at the very least, "let's throw some crap together and see what it does" experiment. But the heart is in the right place! Looking at how physics tends to get a better explanation and things combine. As far as gravity and electricity... I'm not sure. I think it is a bit more complicated that slapping a battery on an airframe. I think there should be some more meddling in there somehow. Like having to shoot the negative ions out through the fuel exhaust.
Without access to a mad scientist laboratory it is just Imagineering how one might really, actually, work. And finding little nuggets here and there instead of drooling with my butt in both hands (how I normally feel when things go black budget).
originally posted by: Whatsthisthen
a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
Batteries, yes you would need those if you want to run conventional electrical gadgets. But does that neccessarily mean that the object moves via electricity?
And the B2 is old, and from the possible photos, there is no real feeling of exotic technology, just advanced homegrown tech. It could be that I never got a look at a true picture so couldn't find anything.
Nuclear fusion, well that would count as a "fuel" based technology and lead to the use of words like "propulsion" and that sort of thinking.
Do the BTs actually have a propulsion system?
"Light" as a part of the system. Hmmm . . ..
The big ones did use a "fisson reactor of sorts".
They had an artificial star which grasped lines and slid along them. But that was not a power supply, the old ones were organic based internals with a metal skin.