Jed Rothwell wrote: > See: > > "It's Time to Make Free Energy our Next Grass Roots Victory" > > Steve Windisch > > http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/it%E2%80%99s-time-to-make-free-energy-our-next-grass-roots-victory-by-steve-windisch/ > > > This author believes energy breakthroughs have been suppressed. A lot of > people agree, but I doubt it. The author says we should pressure the > government to open up and allow research on these subject. That I agree > with. > > Interesting quote from article: > > > Back in the 1993 after his retirement; the former head of Lockheed's > "Skunk Works" (producers of the B-2 "Spirit" Stealth Bomber and SR-71 > "Blackbird"), Benjamin Rich, said on the record at an U.C.L.A. School of > Engineering Alumni awards dinner (and again three days later at a > presentation given at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base): > > "We already have the means to traverse the stars but these technologies > are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of god to ever > get them out to benefit humanity.. Any thing you can imagine we already > know how to do." > > > Did Rich really say that?!? The government does not seem good at hiding > information, so I kind of doubt they have all this stuff under wraps.
You also might think that, if mainstream science and engineering done by trained scientists and engineers (which is what Lockheed and similar outfits engage in) had actually found a workable star drive, then there might be some hints in currently published papers on cosmology pointing to how they might do it. The details would be secret, sure, but you'd see some sort of dim outline of it in the public journals. Yet, you don't -- there are no hints of such a thing. There are fringe notions which could lead to a star drive, maybe, someday, if mainstream cosmology is all wrong and if people like Van Flandern and Sarfatti turn out to be honest capable researchers who were just misunderstood. But from what I can see, the mainstream physics community doesn't have a shadow of a hint of a such a thing, and even some ideas which were floating around, such as wormholes and gateways through spinning black holes, seem to be on the skids. To have a workable star drive in the back room at some lab, while there's no hint in the literature, would be as though the Manhattan project had been started up at a time when there was no hint in the mainstream literature that splitting the atom was even possible. Or it would be like the SR-71 Blackbird being developed in a time when all mainstream flight engineers still believed faster than sound flight was impossible. Or it would be like someone building a working digital computer and computing pi to 1000 places on it, *before* Edison announced the invention of a practical lightbulb. Or it would be like someone producing a workable canon back before anyone had invented gunpowder. None of these things are impossible, but they are very, very improbable. > > - Jed >
