hyperdrive?

Pat Flannery wrote:



Scott Lowther wrote:




Christ. Here we go with the goddamned Nazi flying saucer bull****
again...

That's the province of one of the Knights of the Bierstube Napkin over
on another group. Pat's far too lucid and logical for that.

Nah, we all know that the only thing they had was that goofy Sack
AS-6 thing: http://www.luft46.com/misc/sackas6.html and possibly the
BMW Flugelrad autogyro widget, though I think that was pretty
doubtful:
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/His...Fv1/BMW-V1.htm ...but
have a model of anyway, as it looks neat. I sorta doubt they had
access to superconductors either. Still, the description of this new
gizmo sounds like a flying saucer in basic concept and looks.
Somebody pulling time travel on us?
How do we know we haven't been getting buzzed by BoNorLockMart
RF-98's since 1945? :-D

Because if they'd invented a Time Machine, it would have Patent # 1.

--
Pete Stickney
Java Man knew nothing about coffee.

Peter Stickney wrote:


That's the province of one of the Knights of the Bierstube Napkin over
on another group. Pat's far too lucid and logical for that.



As "Pat" ate his sauerkraut and chuckled at the undermensch Stickney's
naiveté, the Sturmpenguin delivered "The Daily Thulian" newspaper to the
Flugelrad 12 hanger concealed under the Ross Ice Shelf. Good, soon
enough Radium would be on hand and the Great Conquest could begin!
Never again would an Aryan have to eat a bagel with his breakfast! And
the world would tremble under the might of the wrath of The Highmost and
his saucers... the day of Luftmarschall Baron Wolfgang Von
Fritz-und-Flannery was dawning!



Nah, we all know that the only thing they had was that goofy Sack
AS-6 thing: http://www.luft46.com/misc/sackas6.html and possibly the
BMW Flugelrad autogyro widget, though I think that was pretty
doubtful:
http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/His...Fv1/BMW-V1.htm ...but
have a model of anyway, as it looks neat. I sorta doubt they had
access to superconductors either. Still, the description of this new
gizmo sounds like a flying saucer in basic concept and looks.
Somebody pulling time travel on us?
How do we know we haven't been getting buzzed by BoNorLockMart
RF-98's since 1945? :-D



Because if they'd invented a Time Machine, it would have Patent # 1.



Nein! The amount of time you can traverse is limited due to der quantum
uncertainty principles; if you travel too far back der ship itself
undergoes der reverse aeronautical evolution and what started as der
shiny neu Schriever Zietsaucer may end up as Schwarz's Metall Luftshiff:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/a...arz%26berg.jpg
Since Schwartz was der Juden, the crew would then be then forced by der
Nazi zeal to immediately burn it, assuming that they themselves hadn't
also turned into der Juden- in which case they might try to turn der
metal luftwurst over to Theodor Herzl and his Zionists, with terrible
repercussions to der future of der Fourth Reich. =-O

Baron Wolfga...Pat

Here's the New Scientist article with more details:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...25331.200.html
Say, if this thing is to use a toroidal coil and a spinning metal disc,
wouldn't it be circular in shape?
And wouldn't its powerful electric and magnetic fields screw up anything
electrical it got near?
And since it was working in a detached area of hyperspace that it can
enter and leave by modifying its field strength...couldn't it sort of
blink in and out of existence in our dimensional matrix, and use the
shifted laws of velocity and momentum in its hyperspace field to
accelerate and decelerate almost instantly?
Hmmmm...are we completely sure no one has built one of these before? =-O

Is it just me or do the calculations suggest that a current of 2400A per
square millimeter is needed. I don't think there is anyknown super conductor
that gets anywhere near this.

Dand wrote:

Is it just me or do the calculations suggest that a current of 2400A per
square millimeter is needed. I don't think there is anyknown super conductor
that gets anywhere near this.


Not today, but in the year 2137 the Japanese invent it, and shortly
thereafter hyperspace flight and time travel is discovered, and in a
cunning plan antique dealers use time saucers to return to the past and
buy rare items- such as early Pez dispensers, rare Barbie dolls, and
Action Comics #1 with the first appearance of Superman. Why are Action
Comics #1 so rare and valuable? Because a a full 75% of the print run is
now in the future selling for $2.00 a copy!
Seriously, they state in the article that pulsed magnets have exceeded
the field strength needed. But what exactly provides the amount of
electrical power needed to make this wacky widget work?
Cold Fusion of course! In the year 2078, while cleaning out the JPL
heavy water aquarium with the Europian Sono-Squids in it, a NASA
engineer accidentally drops a quantum spot flashlight into it, and... :-)

Pat

Fire up the overthruster.

fstops wrote:

Fire up the overthruster.


"The future begins tomorrow at Yoyodyne!"

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:



fstops wrote:

Fire up the overthruster.


"The future begins tomorrow at Yoyodyne!"

Laugh-a while you-a can, Monkey Boy!

--
Lord John Whorefin
And the horse he rode in on