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Originally posted by MrSelfDestruct
I remember an article years ago in Popular Mechanics about an antigravity device that reduced gravity above the spot where the device was tested by spinning a ceramic magnet disc over a superconductor coil.
The interesting thing that they found was that, in addition to reducing gravity immediately above the device, it effectively "blocked" part of the earth's gravitational pull in a column dircetly above the device as high as they could measure.
Another interesting effect was that the effect could be multiplied by stacking more then one of the devices.
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I remember seeing something about those gravity-defying superconductors on one of the discovery-type channels a few years ago. They're extremely cool, except for the fact that once you get the superconductors more than a few degrees above absolute zero they crash to the ground like lead weights.
Now, if someone were to develop an ambient-temperature superconductor that would kick ass.
As for that website in the first post, I call bullshit. Ion drive <> Antigravity.