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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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June 28, 1991
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GRAV2.ASC
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From the July 1957 MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED.
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Spacehips that Conquer Gravity
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by Michael Gladych
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It will fly at the speed of light
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making a round-trip to Venus in about 30 minutes!
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The spherical craft squatting on a concrete strip emitted a faint
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hum. A ghostly glow surrounded its shell. The strange craft rose
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and hovered momentarily while its landing gear retracted. Then the
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hum increased and the craft shot eastward and vanished beyond the
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horizon before the witnessing scientists could click their stop
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watches.
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Jet-powered missle? No. Made weightless and propelled by its anti-
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gravity engine the round ship was a research vehicle able to travel
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at almost the speed of light - 600,000,000 miles per HOUR.
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How soon will such a revolutionary craft take to the skies?
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Since 1953 the Canadian government's PROJECT MAGNET has been working
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on a GRAVITY-DEFYING VEHICLE powered by ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES.
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AT LEAST 14 UNITED STATES UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER RESEARCH CENTERS
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ARE HARD AT WORK CRACKING THE GRAVITY BARRIER. Convair on the West
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coast, Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Co. of Baltimore, MD., Bell Aircraft
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Co. of Buffalo, NY and Sperry GYROSCOPE Co. of Great Neck, NY.
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maintain teams of researchers and engineers prying into Nature's
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most jealously guarded secret - GRAVITY.
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"Aviation is on the threshold of amazing new concepts,"
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said the late Lawrence D. Bell, level-headed builder
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of the Bell rocket research planes. "We are already
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working with nuclear fuels and equpment to CANCEL OUT
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GRAVITY instead of fighting it."
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Even before the famous apple fell on Isaac Newton's head, men were
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trying to solve the gravity problem. But from the simple pre-
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historic lever to the most intricate modern machinery, the best we
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could do was to win a temporary victory.
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"What goes up must come down," said the biggest scientific brains,
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helpless before the mysterious gravity pull. Newton and other great
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physicists formulated the gravity laws, measured gravity pull and
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passed their findings to posterity.
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But their gravity "laws" had SEVERAL EXCEPTIONS that bothered
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Page 1
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inquiring minds. Take the strange behaviour of liquids, for
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example.
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Move your fingertip slowly toward the surface of water and watch the
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water JUMP UP to hug your finger. Or put a soda straw into the
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water and see the water level inside creep ABOVE the outside level
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in defiance of the earth's gravity pull.
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To get an even more striking contradiction of the gravity laws,
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drape a towel over the edge of a basin half-filled with water.
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After a time the water will climb UP the towel and over the side.
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These and other strange anti-gravity tricks were considered freaks
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of MOLECULAR ATTRACTION - phenomena QUITE APART FROM GRAVITY - UNTIL
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Albert Einstein came up with his Theory of Relativity.
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Einstein said that molecular attraction IS REALLY NO DIFFERENT from
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the gravity pull of the planets and stars. He theorized that this
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attraction works on the same principle as electromagnetism.
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A molecule, a planet or a star all have gravitational fields just as
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magnets or electromagnets have their magnetic fields. To illustrate
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the similarity, Einstein said that a gravitational field would
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attract and bend light rays JUST AS A MAGNETIC FIELD BENDS CATHODE
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RAYS in your TV picture tube.
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Dr. Stanley Deser and Dr. Richard Arnowitt of the Princeton
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Institute for Advanced Study have recently discovered new sub-
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nuclear particles of the atom. Bombarded by powerful electro-
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magnetic accelerators such as the Cosmotron and Betatron, atomic
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structure yielded strange particles which may be the answer to the
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gravitational field problem.
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"Until recently, gravitation could be only observed but not
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experimented on in a controlled fashion," Drs. Deser and Arnowitt
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wrote in their scientific paper. "But the NEW PARTICLES of the atom
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which have been linked with the gravitational field can now be
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examined and worked with at will."
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The new discovery means that before long we shall be able to switch
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gravity on and off as we do electricity and electromagnetism. The
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next logical step is a master of engineering.
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Let's take an ordinary FLYWHEEL SUSPENDED ON ROLLER BEARINGS and
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coupled with a POWERFUL ELECTRIC GENERATOR. One side of that wheel
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would be "under fire" of our de-gravitational apparatus. The
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particles responsible for the gravitational attraction would be
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NEUTRALIZED, a portion of the wheel would be made WEIGHTLESS.
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But once out of the anti-gravity field, the same part of the wheel
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would gain weight and be pulled down by earth's gravity, thus giving
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us a powerful ROTATING MOTOR.
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Another idea for an anti-gravity device comes from Dr. George
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Rideout, president of the Gravity Research Foundation of New Boston,
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N.H.
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"To make a gravity motor," said Dr. Rideout, "we need a
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DIFFERENTIAL OF GRAVITY FORCES and the way we can get
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it is through a GRAVITY INSULATOR or ABSORBER." To see
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how this device might work, let's turn to gravity's twin
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brother - electromagnetism.
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For years we've had trouble with watches that get magnetized. You
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made a phone call or tinkered with your car's generator and presto -
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the delicate balance wheel of your watch, exposed to an
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electromagnetic field, became a little magnet. Now your watch was
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no longer a reliable timepiece.
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To protect a watch from magnetic influence, we put the inner works
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in a soft iron casing that absorbs the magnetic force and shields
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the balance wheel. In other words within the soft iron casing we
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have a SPACE FREE from the outside magnetic pull - we have a
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DIFFERENTIAL OF MAGNETIC FORCES.
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(..MU metal is a modern alloy having excellent magnetic
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shielding properties...Vangard)
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A gravity absorber or shield would do the same for the anti-gravity
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spaceship. The shielded interior would be free from the earth's
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gravity attraction. The inner structure, equipment and crew would
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be weightless in relation to the earth. Thus, we would have a
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differential of gravity forces and our ship would take off instantly
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like a super-balloon.
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For ease of calculation, suppose we take our G-ship to the equator
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where the rotational speed of the earth is about 1,000 mph. With
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our anti-gravity shield completely shut, the G-ship would be hurled
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into space just as a particle of mud shoots off a spinning tire. We
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would scoot along a more or less straight line unless we had some
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way of controlling direction and speed.
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The weightlessness of the G-ship could be easily controlled by
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letting some of the earth's gravity force act upon the ship's
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interior. An arrangement of shutters like venetian blinds would do
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the trick. To control our direction, we would need thrust. A
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rocket would limit us to the amount of fuel, so let's try something
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else.
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(..sounds suspiciously like Disney's movie, "Absent Minded
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Professor" who invented a gravity shielding material termed
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FLUBBER or more apropo, the "First Men in the Moon" which
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showed a material called CAVORITE, named after the scientist
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who discovered it, this substance was painted on window
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shutters which when rolled up did not affect gravity, but
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when unrolled, acted with a repellent effect tor
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gravity...Vangard)
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We could have an ion rocket proposed by Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger or
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another similar nuclear rocket where sub-atomic particles are
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accelerated by a powerful electromagnetic gun and ejected into
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space. We could also utilize ELECTROMAGNETIC REPULSION.
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We know that two LIKE MAGNETIC POLES REPEL EACH OTHER, just as under
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certain conditions an electromagnetic field REPELS THE SO-CALLED
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DIAMAGNETIC METALS. Take a flat aluminum ring, put it over a strong
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electromagnet and switch on the current. The disk will fly off the
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solenoid with quite a speed.
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Starting with this principle of DIAMAGNETIC REPULSION, a group of
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Canadian scientists of Project Magnet proposes to harness the
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magnetic fields of the earth and other celestial bodies for
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propulsion of the G-ship.
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The earth's magnetic field is TOO WEAK TO REPEL or PROPEL a G-ship
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made of ORDINARY METAL. However, current studies in the nature of
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magnetism point to a possible solution. Scientists believe that the
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answer lies in THE STRUCTURE OF ATOMS.
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By RE-ARRANGING THE ATOMIC STRUCTURE we could GREATLY INCREASE THE
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DIAMAGNETIC PROPERTIES of the G-ship and make it travel along the
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magnetic lines of force like the aluminum ring shooting off the
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solenoid.
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According to Einstein's theories, there is no end to the
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electromagnetic and gravitational fields of the planets and stars.
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Those fields INTERTWINE in a MOST COMPLEX PATTERN but THEY ARE EVER
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PRESENT. Proper selection of the fields and the controlled exposure
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to their forces would let us navigate our G-ship in space as well as
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within the earth's boundaries. And the use of electromagnetic
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propulsion would eliminate the problem of fuel.
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Now, let's take a closer look at the G-ship. Its spherical shape is
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dictated by the internal pressurization necessary for high altitude
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and space travel. From the viewpoint of engineering, a sphere is
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ideal for coping with the pressure differential. Also, it gives the
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maximum volume for its dimensions. An interior artificial gravity
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ring would solve the problems of living in a weightless void.
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The anti-gravity shield would completely conceal the crew and
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passenger compartment. This would eliminate visual observation.
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However, even our present radar and TV would give the crew excellent
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electronic vision.
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Apart from the cabin, there would be an engine room for the anti-
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gravity motor and the auxiliary power to run the electronic
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apparatus. Since the ship would take off and land in the
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atmosphere, there would be two problems to overcome - the heat
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caused by air friction and the question of air drag of the spherical
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shape.
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To take the singe out of the friction heat, Canadian scientists
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headed by Wilbur B. Smith contemplate an ingenious ELECTRO-MAGNETIC
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device. Switched on before takeoff, the device would attract and
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hold fast a large portion of air around the ship.
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This captured "boundary cushion" would move with the ship.
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Therefore the air friction would take place at a distance from the
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ship's structure and the heat would be dissipated before it could
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warm up the ship's anti-gravity shield. The mass of captive air
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would be shaped into the most advantageous aerodynamic form. A
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tear-drop for moderate speeds, a sharp-ended spindle for supersonics
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and a concave, cup-like shape for aiding deceleration for landing.
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Even for space travel, the stores and provisions would be small.
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Once OUTSIDE the earth's atmosphere, the G-ship would be capable of
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traveling at near the speed of light - roughly 600,000,000 miles per
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hour.
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At that speed, a 322,000,000 mile round-trip to Venue would TAKE
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ABOUT 30 MINUTES!
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Make no mistake about it, anti-gravity motors and G-ships are
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coming. Remember, a year before the Wright brothers took off at
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Kitty Hawk some of our top scientists "proved" that a heavier-than-
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air craft could not possibly fly.
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And in 1935 the British Air Ministry nixed Frank Whittle's jet
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engine as "interesting but not practical."
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But the best answer to the disbelievers is that some of these anti-
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gravity ideas are already on the drawing boards of the United States
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aircraft industry. With their brain power and technological know-
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how, our engineers will soon send Newton's apple back up where it
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came from!
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