Will travel to the stars ever be possible?

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by pluto2, Jan 8, 2014.

  1. river

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    You missed this site
    http://www.americanantigravity.com/
     
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  7. river

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  8. queeg Registered Member

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    Yeah i sort of crudely said this in another post as "floating magnetic cars." It's creating electric fields through an object so as to magnetise it and apparently suspend gravity. but it isn't actual "anti-gravity". If that were the case then if i pic up a piece of plastic biscuit wrapper with static from my body then that could be called anti-gravity too.
     
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  10. river

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    Did you read the history of T.T.Brown
     
  11. queeg Registered Member

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    I skimmed over his wikipedia page there. He was UFO investigator. he was intelligent, but his so-called anti-gravity propulsion methods don't actually work how it explains on that site. Its really just electromagnetism or electrokinetics, and couldnt be applied to propulsion in space. sorry to say. but i do see he has quite the cult following. i said the site was hogwash because it said perpetual motion machines are possible.
     
  12. river

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    T.T.Brown was never a UFO investigator
     
  13. queeg Registered Member

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    Well maybe wikipedia got it wrong, but that wasn't the point anyway. it was the propulsion method
     
  14. river

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    Wikipedia got it wrong

    What about the propulsion method ?
     
  15. queeg Registered Member

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    Another promising area of propulsion research is Inertial confinement fusion. if we perfected this it would be more efficient than magnetic fusion. Another interesting concept was Freeman Dysons nuclear pulse type propulsion design. yous have prob seen the documentary about project orion but here it is for anyone who hasnt seen it. very interesting:

    [video=youtube;znmZeEycRwE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmZeEycRwE[/video]
     
  16. queeg Registered Member

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    What i said earlier, it wouldnt work for interstellar travel.
     
  17. river

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    Why
     
  18. queeg Registered Member

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    to travel in space you have to, at the basic level, throw something out the back so you go forward. his method doesn't have anything to do with this
     
  19. river

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    Actually if you had investigated this in more depth you would have found that it is well beyond this
     
  20. queeg Registered Member

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    you're gonna have to do better than that. if you think it has merit then explain it to me.
     
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  22. Boris2 Valued Senior Member

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    townsend brown is not a reliable source. and i am not going to get into an argument over it. no credible scientist would disagree with my view.

    http://montalk.net/science/84/the-biefeld-brown-effect

    what does the bolded bit mean? it's garbage.
     
  23. queeg Registered Member

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    exactly, but then look what the site in question is about, aliens...conspiracies etc.

    river, go find a scientifically objective view on browns work, my guess is Wikipedia didn't get it wrong.
     

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