10,000 rpm isn't a problem You have hard disk drives in your computer rotating that fast all the time. Admittedly, they are aluminum platters,...
You CAN build a primitive generator out of insulated copper wiring, a few nails, a block of wood, couple of flat kitchen fridge magnets, glue and a...
True, the beams will not collide with each other. However, the total energy focused on the point of intersection will be double what either...
Papers by Droscher and Hauser, working off of Extended Heim Theory, claim that gravity may be generated, and possibly be shielded against by use of...
It sounds like Trapeze is asking how much energy would an EMP require to destroy a Faraday cage. Say, something like a cage constructed of 16 Mesh...
According to Wikipedia, "A cyborg, also known as a cybernetic organism, is a being with both biological and artificial (e.g. electronic, mechanical...
Don't need a robotic mosquito catcher. Plain old dragonflies work just fine. Of course I do recall an article a while back talking about using a...
Why rotating? The rotation has to deal with a concept called, "frame dragging." You could engage in frame dragging in a linear fashion, but that...
Hauser Droscher Tajmar Heim Update It appears that Droscher & Hauser have published another paper on "Gravitational Field Propulsion"; with...
Alright, let's look at it this way. Figures or locations in a 2 dimensional space are described with equations like x+y=1 or x^2+y^2=3 1...
There are however many dimensions we need to create a model to accurately describe the universe. Length, width, height are measureable spacial...
It wasn't a meteorite, it was a sleeping horta.
Sounds like the supercavitation bubbles work to form a lower friction envelope around the missile. At first I though they were using a massive...
I build rock walls by hand and manual labor alone for a hobby. Only machines I use is a 6 foot crowbar and various rocks as a lever and fulcrum....
Odd. I read 3 novels this weekend. Of course I'm hardly "normal".
Absolutely.
Fraggle: Africa can't afford chemical fertilizers. Not even in Kenya where they tend to be more affluent than other african countries. (And...
I think cosmictraveller is referring to a process of chemically welding two peices of metal together. It's a fictional device used in the Honor...
Total environmental costs of biofuels worse than gasoline kmguru: Roman is quite right about his statement that biofuels are worse than...
Michael: Don't sweat the small stuff. Even if the LHC managed to produce a black hole, it's too small to be stable and would almost immediately...
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