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True, without a doubt.
originally posted by: BernnieJGato
a reply to: cdf21882
Steven Greer stopped right there. flim flam man
I have found it fascinating to study these claims of "miraculous inventions". They seem to fall into two categories:
originally posted by: Mantiss2021
Therefore, any marvelous invention "stolen" from the public by greedy government and/or corporations must be based on the physics of our reality, expressed in mathematic principles discoverable by anyone, and thus must be repeatable, just like the science upon which the technology is based.
YOu don't reallybelieve a car ran on water alone, do you? Even con-man Bob Lazar says you can't run a car on water, but he says what you could do is use solar panels to power a device that extracts hydrogen from the water, then run the car on hydrogen. There was a video on youtube calling Lazar's corvette a "water-powered" car in the title of the video, which was a little misleading when you watch the video and Lazar explains that it takes energy to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. So he was really running his car on water plus energy to split the water. You can't run a car on water alone and neither Stan Meyer nor anybody else has done that, despite claims otherwise.
originally posted by: Thefineblackharm
Stan Myer made a few tweaks to his car and it suddenly ran on water. He died relatively shortly thereafter.
Hmm, why did you say his car ran on water, but not mention his conviction for fraud over the claims made in his patents? Did you not know about that?
Meyer was convicted of fraud in 1996 over the claims made in his patents, and died of an aneurysm in 1998.
That's often the pseudoscientific claim which accompanies pseudoscientific inventions, isn't it? That was certainly the case in all the examples I just gave about Keely, Mils, and Bearden, they claimed some "new science" that just wasn't understood yet, and had buzzwords to describe it. But if you assume such claims are baloney, you will almost always be right. Why is that even qualified by "almost"? Can you think of a single case where they have ever been right? Because I can't, but maybe it will happen someday, but so far all those claims have been baloney. The closest I can think of is the "cold fusion" claims where the variation in experimental results seemed to vary, which perhaps had something to do with the purity or contaminants of the palladium used in experiments. Anyway, claims that cold fusion was suppressed are ludicrous, since anybody and everybody who wanted to experiment with that was experimenting with it, but the experiments just never panned out into anything useful.
originally posted by: Thefineblackharm
There's also the fact that um, we don't know everything there is to know about physics. So an element of physics that no one has discovered, that others might know, might appear "magical" when in reality, it's not.
Flying never appeared magical, we saw birds do it all the time and rational people never thought that was magic.
It did after all take us 2000 years of recorded time to learn how to fly, which a few years before we did, was considered impossible.
originally posted by: Raptured
Years ago there was a documentary out called "Who Killed the Electric Car" that was centered around the GM EV1 - a purely electric vehicle that not only was way ahead of it's time but it apparently shook the foundations of the auto industry enough that it was mothballed.
Anywho..a segment in the movie talked about a gentleman, an inventor who created a battery for these cars which was like 10x more efficient than the ones they were putting in the cars. He was approached by a large automobile company to acquire the rights to his invention, which they did, and the product never saw the light of day.
When you can't beat the competition....buy them (and bury them)
Sad but a reflector of the world we live in
(Note: some details of what I mentioned may be off-track or innacurate. It's been awhile since I've seen it)
I understand that he's made a few mistakes