extropians: Re: From the NSS LIST

>From: Spudboy100@aol.com

>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org

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>Subject: From the NSS LIST

>Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:17:07 EDT

>Any opinions? Forwarded from the NSS list concerniing propellantless propulsion. I hope its not a Joe Newman home grown energy producer.

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>Jeff Cameron of Transdimensional Technologies apparently has developed a form of propellantless propulsion. He will demonstrate it at the public meeting of HAL5 in Huntsville Alabama on the 2nd of August 7pm at the Huntsville Madison County Public Library (Fort Book). If any of you are in town and

>want to see it let me know. This is note electromagnetic levitation. He actually charges a portion of the flight platform to 30,000 volts of static

>electrical charge. Jeff claims his prototype lifter employs a nonconservative aspect of the >Lorentz Force for propulsion. The mathematics are pretty hairy! He envisions harnessing >this for spacecraft propulsion.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this. The guy appears to be an actual scientist...

But as for the space flight angle...how is that going to help us become immortal? What I wonder is whether this thing can provide a cheap energy source or a better form of *earthly* transportation.

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