On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Nigel Dyer <l...@thedyers.org.uk> wrote: >> I continue to be reminded of a (Isaac Asimov?) science fiction story I read >> as a child where a group of scientists are shown a film of what they are >> told is an anti gravity machine, which takes off, flies a bit then blows up. >> They are told that the inventer, the only person who knew how it worked, >> was killed. They then spend six months(?) working together and produce a >> new anti-gravity machine. They are then told that the film was a fake and >> there was no such inventor. > > I remember that one! Was it Asimov? > > OMG, now I'm going to spend the rest of the night on google trying to > find out which novella that was from.
Found it!!! It was Raymond F. Jones, author of "This Island Earth" and "Forbidden Planet". The story is "Noise Level" and here is Stan Deyo talking about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBXmB1OLwMk Thanks, Nigel! T
