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Secrets of flying saucers discovered!

saucay.jpgOne of the things that makes flying saucers so fascinating is that they clearly use some crazy alien technology to zip around. No human-built planes can maneuver like that! If only! Well, now it looks like someone has figured out the secret to flying saucers: ionized air.

Engineering professor Subrata Roy of the University of Florida figured it out, and he plans to make a prototype showing off his discovery. How's it work?

The surface of the saucer-shaped craft will be covered with electrodes that, when powered by a battery or other power source, will ionize the surrounding air to create plasma. When charged with an electric current, the polarized plasma will repel the non-polarized air, creating lift and thrust. Such an aircraft would have very stable flight characteristics, with the pilot controlling it by diverting the electrical charge to different parts of the surface.
His initial prototype will be six inches in diameter, but he thinks its scalable to larger sizes. Just think, in 10 years we could all be scooting around in our own UFOs. Let's make this happen.

Via io9

 
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By John-Video at 5:52 AM ON 07/10/08

Ummmmmmmmm..........

There's air in space???

By budgethero at 9:59 AM ON 07/10/08

i dont know much about ionized air but if what he says is true, this would be awesome. depending on the physical results, this could best winged-aircraft. within the atmosphere of course.

By Geek at 10:31 AM ON 07/10/08

I saw a demonstration of this in miniature years ago (channel 4, UK), it does work but the device gets really hot.
The researchers had abandoned research into it due to the temperatures it reached.

By THIJO at 8:40 AM ON 07/11/08

It's possible...but it needs a lot of electricity ! Prof. Meessen ( UCL, Belgium ) was one of the first to discover this...many years ago ( certainly more than 30 years ), but he never realised a real prototype. At that moment they could not produce so much electricity for such a vehicle I think. There are already flying saucers, based on other principles...but I think the professor of the University of FLORIDA has a good project for the future. I hope those flying saucers will not be used to attack, but for peacefull projects.

By THIJO at 1:25 PM ON 07/11/08

nb : A good cooling-system is not so difficult...it could be based on WATER...and to keep it cool..you have the electricity ( you get it on the road by a dynamo-system BY ROTATION ) ! You need only to create a clever CIRCULATION-SYSTEM ( may not be so difficult ) !!!

By Ghinn at 1:52 PM ON 07/11/08

What about the cat method? Since cats always land on their feet, and buttered bread always falls butter side down, you affix a piece of buttered bread, butter side up, to the back of a cat. Presto! Antigravity. It's all detailed here: http://www.physics.uwo.ca/~harwood/antigravity.html

By snakerake at 1:56 PM ON 07/11/08

a cooling system using water could also generate extra electricity on a larger version... if the heated water was pumped to a steam turbine the condensed and recirculated.

By THIJO at 7:36 PM ON 07/11/08

SNAKERAKE...amazing ! Here we have a lot of possibilitis I think. THANKS for your creative thinking... who is joining my propositions ! Is everybody listening ? ( I hope so )

By THIJO at 7:45 PM ON 07/11/08

GHINN..yes..I believe also we could have ( or have ) a lot of possibilities with ANTIGRAVITY ! You are right. If we ( on this world ) should like...we have a WONDERFULL future WITHOUT PETROL OR SUCH SORROWS !!!! You kwow..we have also ZERO POINT ENERGY, TACHYONS,Free energy if you like....
THAT's THE TRUTH !!!( some org. don't like the TRUTH ! )

By THIJO at 12:25 PM ON 07/12/08

nb :

I believe there are many possibilities with ANTI-MATTER. At this moment I'm analysing everything about TACHYONS. And when we talk about TACHYONS, we talk about ZERO POINT ENERGY ( it's the same ).
But ionisation..why not...if it's possible in the ecological way.

By MorfTech at 11:26 AM ON 07/20/08

This idea has been around for a really long time, and it isnt even close to antigravity, but at first people thought it was. Unless I'm mistaken, I think lifters use the same concept. This could be a solution, if we look into it, for better transportation in the near future. Also the problem regarding to space flight could be solved by ion propulsion which I have heard was recently perfected.

By Dragon Mars at 11:49 PM ON 07/23/08

It is great that someone is coming forward with this great discovery. Unfortuneately it is about 80 to 100 years late. A very similar discription of a device created by two well known American Scientist. Nicolas Tesla and Thomas Townsend Brown. Tesla was ridiculed for his beliefs, and Brown was shut out from his own discoveries by the US Military back in the 1930's. Personally I truely hope that Professor Roy can continue to develope his finding into an actual vehicle for the everyday person. I just wish that other scientic professionals would be allowed to do the same. To speed up this developement.

By freeman at 11:56 AM ON 08/29/08

dragon mars is right tesla had the consept of using the earth as a giant battery by building large towers at strtigec points on earth,called teslacoils.you could littraly get power without wire veia on board conductors free!also the heet problem can be solved with ultralight weight ceramics and heetdispurting alloies.if you would like to discuss this moor email me!

By TESLA_N at 3:39 PM ON 11/03/08

Niclola Tesla had this patent already. This idea is nothing new. The US military and other world militaries have had this technology at there disposal for over 60 years. We have been kept in the dark far to long on this one...Tesla's Flying Machine seem to be related to devices electrokinetics and electrogravitics research. Electrogravitics is physically interpreted as giving the forces on material objects (which may also be acted upon by other physical forces). Electrostatic levitation is the process of using an electric field to lift a charged object and counteract the effects of gravity. Plasmagnetic levitation technology that involves using high frequency adient energy to turn air into a column of conductive plasma and used to repel against a craft, resulting in a form of levitation may also be involved. www.tesla-flying-machine.com...it's amazing how technology is re-invent over time..and sometims lost completely...


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