Posts by Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: Scared sh*tless

I think that people were supposed to root for the humans against the machine in the the film Eagle Eye, yet when you look at it the machine was actually trying to defend people from being subjugated by powerful people who were violating the constitution left right and centre.

Ironic.

Re: @Bloakery1

+1 for the Macroscope reference, I loved that book - lots of nifty ideas, especially the 'traveller'.

If you like Piers Anthony I highly recommend his incarnation series.

Re: Biefield-Brown Effect

From my limited understand of things, I think you my be in error, Sir.

The Biefield-Brown effect utilises considerably more energy input than I believe was used in this experiement.. "ranging from a few kilovolts and up to megavolt levels" in order to achive some form of ionisation.

Re: Dark Matter

I've often had the thought that since mass is a function of energy (isn't everything?) that sub-atomic activity could be create mass on a tiny scale, yet taken over a large enough volume of space it could potentially account for some of the Univserse's missing mass.

Although why there are areas of varying density I'm sure I have no idea, it's all bit exotic to me.

Re: Crazy Eddie

"Crazy Eddy"

Is that the same one who lives in the space time continuum?

Re: Thrust is no mystery - siz eo fthrust is.

I think I read that the test was performed with an atmospheric pressure, but they are clever bods so one would assume they have ruled out the obvious like heated air being expelled to produce the force measured.

Re: It's not rocket scie...oh.

If it's not rocket science, then it's quantum science, obviously much easier to grasp for the layman :)

Re: The reason why this is published

Ok, how about 'reactionmassless' drive then?

Re: Captain Future's enemy had one of those.

"The last time I thought about it, it seemed evident to me that the force towards the "front" would exactly equal the force towards the "back"."

Because that's quite obviously why a balloon will zip around the room when you let go after blowing it up and not sealing it.

I theorize that the chamber itself is acting as a balloon whereby small amounts of energy released at the quantum level from 'stuff' popping in and out of existence are being held temporarily in the chamber, building pressure. The opening at one end allows the energy to escape and generate a small amount of thrust.

The addition of microwaves to increase the internal energy pressure of the chamber could then explain the increased thrust that was seen.

You never know do you? I much prefer 'hmm, that's odd' to 'Eureka'.

Re: Even accounting...

It's time they built an orbital launcher that is designed to be cannibalized for construction of power sources in orbit.

Re: LENR works!

"Sorry for the lateness of my post - it's due to the transmission delays between you on Earth and my lair on Mars."

You really need to update to one of my sub-etha transceivers, I'll ship one over to you once I get my hands on one of these drive upgrades, just need to pop over to Lave and Diso for some, err, shopping :)

Re: Here's a thought.

Right up to the point where the central control system re-directs all the cars ahead to form a road-block

Re: I want both @Mike Smith

I stumbled upon the secret of Swindon's magic roundabout on first use.

Pick your exit, keep an eye out to the right hand side for car-missiles and GO GO GO!

The simple answer is usually the obvious one

They don't transport themselves via a vortex anywhere - that's just daft.

They _do_ however make themselves invisible to the naked eye, re-appearing only when they come into contact with human blood.

Re: Erroneous Cowherd Contempt

So _you_ were consulted on this were you? Or perhaps it was part of a manifesto pledge being championed by the person you voted for perhaps?

The only arrogance I see here is in your assertion that because _you_ are happy with it, and all the MP's voted for it, that the MP's who voted for it somehow believe you are not in a minority.

I would like to posit that the MP's did what they were fucking told by the party whips and absolutely fuck all to do with what they thought their constituents' views on the subject were.

Re: when

The government is going to increase our taxes, this seems to be completely beyond dispute.