OK I visited the funny part of youtube again, anti gravity.

I'm not sure I understood this guy but the guy in the video made a platform covered in bug wings and somehow that flew. They are calling it anti-gravity. I'm not into alternative science because that's much like alternative facts.

Bees fly by flapping their wings. There's no mystery to that, it's the same way birds fly as well. They flap their wings air goes down they rise up, the curve of their wings creates lift much like the curve of a plane wing creates lift via differences in air pressure. I'm just not sure what the video was trying to say but it sounded like woo woo.

 

I'm not saying it's Aliens but... you know the rest.

Yep - you ventured into the nutter side of the internet. Good thing you came out intact!

 

There is probably a big magnet under there, like a monorail whatsist..

You just need to crank it up past 11
https://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic-levitation/#:~:text=In this field, all the,repelled by the large magnet.&text=So, the frog's atoms do,it were in a spacecraft.

 

"Chirratic effect" seriously... So if I take this correctly when bees fly they generate an anti gravity field that no one in science has ever been able to find. Yet somehow it is here.

 

I would take this seriously except I'm currently too busy with my orgone accumulator. I'll see you sometime later when I'm through with my accumulator.

 

I'll take that as sarcasm... Seriously nothing in that video should be taken seriously and I'm being serious.

 

Surely, you can't be serious!

 

Keep calling someone Shirley, yer just beggin' for trouble.

 

I was referring to Wilhelm Reich's similarly bizarre invention, the orgone accumulator. Reich's invention is remembered in song by Hawkwind (and Reich in Cloudbusting by Kate Bush).

I doubt any such contraptions are anything other than snake oil but the world would be duller without such nonsense.

 

I did like that someone commented that if they stuck bee wings on their shoes they'd be able to run at 10,000 mph

 

Of course, the best parts of a bee are its knees.

 

The Bee movie is perfection

 

This stuff reminds me of all the wacky inventions people were making in trying to achieve flight before the Wright Brothers were successful in their attempts.

 

And you know what the 21st Century means we might have a renaissance of wacky inventions for flight, who knows, I think that's already begun.

 

There's certainly been plenty of 'wacky' of late anyway...

 

Hey did you watch the Starship belly flop test?

 

Oh yeah - and wondered about that engine issue. One of three seemed to flame out during the ascent.

 

According to Scott Manley, the engines were shut down in sequence, the remaining engines being gimbled to correct the thrust vector. The engines were then relit for the landing. Unfortunately, one of the engines destroyed itself from within possibly because it received the incorrect fuel-LOX mix, resulting in the green-coloured flame due to oxidation of the injector plate. My suspicion is that SpaceX hadn't worked out correctly how to deal with the effect of the sudden flip from horizontal to vertical orientation.

SpaceX's Biggest Starship Flight Is A Spectacular Success Even After Crash Landing - YouTube

 

This would make no economic sense, but....

A Super-Heavy is launched (no upper stage) so it can make it to orbit, then modified to take hypergolics.

A similar Starship is launched to dock with this. Fins only on the bottom. No ugly heat shield on this fuel fat bird that can burn all the way down...atop Olympus Mons.

Anti-gravity craft (if any) are not allowed anywhere near this sacred site, except to relocate dead rovers in a circle, staring up at gleaming steel.

Each decade, a pilgrimage is made to this holy place. Each petitioner is allowed in the base—so as to look at the interior...now that propellant tanks are dry and engravings are revealed.

Outside, a ladder ordeal allows one lucky person to ascend.

the ladder ends right at the only window in the craft.

A ray of feeble Martian sun falls upon a portrait of a jovial looking man...bespectacled with silver hair.

On the wall beneath the window, visible only to Ray, reads the following caption:

“Forget God and Heinlein—they got theirs with DC-X and Falcon. This one is all yours...as it was meant to be”

 

Whatever you are smoking please stop.