View Full Version : Levitation now 'solved'!
phenom
07-08-2007, 11:10 AM
Finally, my flying car..
Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines with moving parts that levitate But they say that, in principle at least, the same effect could be used to levitate bigger objects too, even a person.>>>>>link here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/06/nlevitate106.xml)<<<<<
how many possibilities this technology will(/could) open is truly amazing.
werries2
07-08-2007, 11:22 AM
Yes was reading the same article this morning, truely amazing! Think the levitation of humans is till far-far off but the scope of frictionless engines etc is just amazing!
AntiThesis
07-08-2007, 11:25 AM
The possibilities are of course almost endless :D I'll follow this with interest.
Safe money is on us not seeing anything to do with it for seventy years or so though :(
ldmelsa
07-08-2007, 11:29 AM
Safe money is on us not seeing anything to do with it for seventy years or so though :(
Dude. They are already using it in military UFOs. ;)
phenom
07-08-2007, 11:40 AM
where do we buy shares??????????
;):D:D:D:D
werries2
07-08-2007, 11:43 AM
where do we buy shares??????????
;):D:D:D:D
For the UFO industry or for the technology? :D
ldmelsa
07-08-2007, 11:44 AM
AntiGravityInvest™
ldmelsa
07-08-2007, 11:45 AM
For the UFO industry or for the technology? :D
UFO mmmmmm That would be the 'Military Industrial Complex'.
AntiThesis
07-08-2007, 11:46 AM
Not a chance bucko :D
No shares for you. Shares only to rich oil magnates so they don't lose too much share. Cos who needs petrol when you are levitating, frictionless and can just stick your head out the window and puff? :D
ldmelsa
07-08-2007, 11:50 AM
What Anti is saying is not that far fetched. Well, in the future anyway.
phenom
07-08-2007, 11:59 AM
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12429-three-ways-to-levitate-a-magic-carpet.html
AntiThesis
07-08-2007, 12:05 PM
Ta for linky :) Very interesting reading.
The_Librarian
07-08-2007, 04:50 PM
From the article over at El Reg :
This raises visions of a beautiful but perhaps ethically troubling future with mighty hover vessels plying the skies, lifted on the backs of hundreds of genetically or surgically modified ground-repelling geckoes. No doubt in time some kind of squamatan-effects coating or generator would replace the early aerial gecko-galleons but in the meantime the potential for lizard abuse would be horrific.
:D :D :D
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/quantum_levitation_incredible/
Pr⊕phet
07-08-2007, 07:32 PM
oh god save us !!!
now we are going to have flying taxis :eek:
The_Librarian
07-08-2007, 07:48 PM
now we are going to have flying taxis :eek:
:eek::eek:
:D:D
Won't be funny when the first taxi crash-lands in your living room in the wee-wee hours of the morning tho... :eek:
:eek::eek:
:D:D
Won't be funny when the first taxi crash-lands in your living room in the wee-wee hours of the morning tho... :eek:
Or if a flying petroltanker suddenly loses lift or it's brakes go wonky...
Conspirator
08-08-2007, 12:14 AM
I'm not holding my breath. Sounds like good research blown way out of proportion by the media.
j4ck455
08-08-2007, 12:33 AM
oh god save us !!!
now we are going to have flying taxis :eek:We have always had flying taxis, what we really need is to get rid of the taxi drivers and replace them with deflatable autopilots :D
The Cosmos
12-08-2007, 04:37 PM
Ok, who's going to train the airborne traffic cops ? :D
Lord Anubis
13-08-2007, 01:30 PM
Dude. They are already using it in military UFOs. ;)
Its not so funny when you're an abudctee and get chucked out of the mothership!! My ribs still ache!!:(
Leitmotif
13-08-2007, 02:24 PM
So, when do I get my antigravity boots?
Or if a flying petroltanker suddenly loses lift or it's brakes go wonky...
It doesn't matter whether the brakes are wonky once it loses lift ;)
dablakmark8
14-08-2007, 06:37 PM
whats worst than a flying taxi
I want one of those "Back to the future" leviboards. Any1 still remember those movies?