Saul Luizaga <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> In the History Channel 'UFO Files' at the end of one of the episodes a 
> young man levitates a triangle induced with 50,000 volts, he said at the 
> moment science can't explain it yet. On that series, a few people 
> researched how to levitate wood chair and other non-magnetic stuff in in 
> the passed century (1960 or later I think, I don't recall well), they 
> were supposedly hired by USA military, in the episodes they show 
> original footage made by the levitators.

  I wouldn't put too much trust in a TV show named like that.

  TV shows are made for entertainment. They lie if they have to. Everybody
knows that, yet people still fall for it.

  Now, if you give me actual references to peer-reviewed publications,
that's a different story. (And I'm not talking about the triangle levitating
thanks to the 50 kilovolts.)

> I wonder why we don't have levitating commercial "planes", I think they 
> could be safer since you don't need to fly at high altitudes since it's 
> soundless, I guess carbohydrate fuel wins again, no electric cars neither.

  There's no known physics to make a plane levitate.

  A superconductor levitates over a magnet because of the Meissner effect.
It requires a very specific set of circumstances which are quite hard, if
not impossible, to replicate for an airplane in normal outdoords conditions.
(Namely, the plane would have to be superconductive and floating above a
gigantic superpowerful magnet.)

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                                                          - Warp

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