Ah, but look what happened to planet Krikkit ;-) Michel
2009/3/4 Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com>: > > > 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 >> > >
