UFOs (UAPs): Explanations?

Discussion in 'UFOs, Ghosts and Monsters' started by Magical Realist, Oct 10, 2017.

  1. gamelord Registered Senior Member

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    Don't know about spaceships but I saw a youtube video of a British guy building an anti-grav gyro. It wasn't like the regular anti-grav gyro videos, it was different. It was 80's style film quality and he was in a garage. No matter what I scoured for this video but could not find it. I'd appreciate if someone could find this video, and link it please.
     
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  3. Gawdzilla Sama Valued Senior Member

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    So, we've had anti-gravity since the '80s?
     
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  5. gamelord Registered Senior Member

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    It was never mainstream. But many inventions have been invented that have never made it to the public eye.

    The invention didn't actually stop the gravity force, it just caused a high force without needed propellers or jet engine.
     
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  7. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    So, nothing even remotely related to anti-gravity at all.
     
  8. gamelord Registered Senior Member

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    It is similar to anti-grav because, it allows you to build a flying machine without use of external thrust.
     
  9. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    You said, "it just caused a high force without needed propellers or jet engine". What's the difference between a high force and an external thrust?
     
  10. Gawdzilla Sama Valued Senior Member

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    Just noting that I didn't say that.

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  11. Gawdzilla Sama Valued Senior Member

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    No, it doesn't.
     
  12. gamelord Registered Senior Member

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    Because it's not really using a push-force, its using gyroscoping force. Thrust is basically a push.
     
  13. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    How can a "gyroscoping" force provide lift?
     
  14. Gawdzilla Sama Valued Senior Member

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  15. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    Type in 'Eric Laithwaite' at YT or in your browser search bar. He did well with his linear motor, but went off the rails with failed claim to lift things using gyros. Any actual effect would have only worked in air not in a vacuum of space.
     
  16. gamelord Registered Senior Member

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    Specifically, it provides merely force. It only provides lift only if it is the opposite direction of the planet's surface.

    This guy wasn't Erik Laithwaite, he was a younger man and if I recall, he may have had a beard but I am not sure. But the vibe he gave me was a kind of 80's british man who was a dweller of man' caves, a manly profound hippie kind of geekman of legend of sci-fi. He definitely not Erik, Erik reminds me of a scholarly professor or principle kind of man.
     
  17. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    I presume you are intending to do this via gyroscopic precession, or something like a reaction wheel? That would only work in very short bursts, and certainly not enough to generate the thrust needed to leave a gravitational well.
     
  18. gamelord Registered Senior Member

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    Whatever it was it worked in the video I saw. I forgot the exact method and it was fairly complex.
     
  19. Gawdzilla Sama Valued Senior Member

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    "...then dazzle 'em with bullshit."
     
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  20. gamelord Registered Senior Member

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    No bs here, the video was real. But from the beginning you should have anticipated the possibility that it would never be found.
     
  21. Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    As mentioned in that Wiki article under Theory:
    "Reaction wheels can rotate a spacecraft only around its center of mass (see torque); they are not capable of moving the spacecraft from one place to another (see translational force)."
    A reaction wheel can't generate any thrust, as distinct to 'not enough'. Eric Laithwaite thought differently. No idea who the manly hippy 80's character is or was.
     
  22. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Yazata,

    I'd be surprised if the military was not working on more advanced drones.

    In the not-too-near future we will face the terrifying prospect of autonomous drones that can make their own decisions about killing human beings. That is, unless new treaties are drawn up outlawing them, in similar to the ones outlawing the use of chemical and biological weapons. In my opinion, it is quite important that countries think about these laws now.
     
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  23. Gawdzilla Sama Valued Senior Member

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    Like I said, BS.
     

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