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Originally posted by TheAnnoyedCockroach:
Why does this topic sound like a front-page article in the Weekly World News?

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Since it's an actual article from a respected on-line magazine, maybe this means those articles in the WWN are true!

The Chronicle

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Originally posted by GMx:
Since it's an actual article from a respected on-line magazine, maybe this means those articles in the WWN are true!

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It doesn't sound like a front page article for Weekly World News at all. Nowhere near sensationalistic enough. Take one of their current front page stories for comparision... Mr. One Inch: World's Greatest Lover
(who, as the story says, is exaggerating a bit)

whoops, WE mean, ummm[/s]

• whatever gives YOU that idea?
  

Since the Nazi's were not even close in nuclear science (i.e. bomb) at the time that the likelihood that they had anything close to anti-gravity is perhaps laughable

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MT - Diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

If we had anti-gravity tech back in the 50’s and 60’s, why did the US pour billions into conventional rocketry and *still* get repeatedly trumped by the USSR in the space race?

One can’t say that the US didn’t consider this a military priority at the time, and anti-gravity would have been a help…

Then there’s the fact that theoretical physicists are constitutionally incapable of NOT talking with each other. Just about all of Europe’s best and brightest bolted for England or the US when things started getting really hairy on the continent during WWII, and they all intercommunicated. Ideas in physics rarely come out of a vacuum (zero-point joke) so SOMEONE would have mentioned at least the ideas *leading up to* any anti-gravity theory.

Gravity is one of the most-studied areas of modern theoretical physics, with scads of geeks from all nations trying to figure it out… Very few of them work in subterranean bunkers and draw US government paychecks. If there’s a way to manipulate gravity using 1940’s era technology, then it would have been re-discovered it dozens of times over in the civilian world, and there’s no way *THEY* could have kept it quiet.

I especially like the idea that the stealth bomber uses anti-gravity tech… It begs the question “WHY?” The same thing can be built with straightforward adaptations of known technology. Oh… That’s right… Since the Stealth Bomber was secret for so long, it must have even *more* secret stuff that we still don’t know about.

<insert usual conspiracy-theory logic-contorting rebuttal here>

Nice idea, but it rates pretty high on my Hooey-Meter(tm.)

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Originally posted by Max Heck:
Ideas in physics rarely come out of a vacuum (zero-point joke)

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Well, relatively... I'm taking a fermi stance. It was never a sure bethe in the first place, but It's not like they'll make me walk the planck if I'm wrong. I just find that when approaching particle physics, the dirac-t approach beats being uncertain, so long as you avoid entanglement in dark matters.

But my joke seems to run out of momentum for all it's charm, and some might even say there's zero point in my continuing... Indeed, some might even call me a bohr or a bose-o.

I say "Feyn, man... Quant 'em if they can't take a joke!"

Concur. One particular refutation...

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"deep black" programs that aren't even acknowledged to exist. The stealth fighter and B2 bomber were black programs for years.

Except for one sniggling detail. Conceded the so-called "stealth fighter" was indeed kept super-squirrel secret for seven years after its initial flight, and while the details of the software that keep the B-2 flying are hush-hush, as are the details of its stealth coating, the B-2's rollout was very public, and its airframe shape and engines are well-known (so "anyone" can verify that it will fly, subject to the control software working). Indeed, not only was the rollout public, months prior there were official "artists concepts" that showed what it looked like ... and as a subtle joke, even before there was any public information of what it would look like, there was the tarmac of the production facility, which was shaped like the top-view of a B-2, with the production hangers at the wingtips.

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Originally posted by GMx:
Since it's an actual article from a respected on-line magazine, maybe this means those articles in the WWN are true!

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Originally posted by LifetimeTrekker:
Since when is Salon repected?

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Oh, you're one of *those* More respected than the Drudge Report, et al. But personally I get my **real** news from The Onion! http://www.theonion.com/

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The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

His name was Ed Leedskalnin and he built the coral castle in Florida. A few photos such as this one make it pretty clear that there's no anti-gravity involved, just an amazing level of determination and effort from one man.