Originally posted by googlefudgeBut in the link I just posted Buzz is clearly saying the contrary.
no, I am saying spinning gyroscopes won't produce lift.
You can use gyroscope's to rotate your air/space ship whatever, but you can't use them to propel it.
edit. Was Buzz also lying about aliens?
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Originally posted by Thequ1ckNo he was talking about a known effect that gyroscopes have, which does not lead to THRUST.
But in the link I just posted Buzz is clearly saying the contrary.
edit. Was Buzz also lying about aliens?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpfvhdmhQy4
There is no way of spinning gyroscopes that generates thrust.
To generate thrust you have to fire something in the opposite direction...
even if its only photons.
And about the 'aliens' (good grief)...
Notice how all of the "it must be aliens" crap is coming from the voice over, not Aldrin's heavily edited interview.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin#UFO_claims
from the Buzz Aldrin wiki...
UFO claims
In 2005, while being interviewed for a documentary titled First on the Moon: The Untold Story, Aldrin told an interviewer that they saw an unidentified flying object. Aldrin told David Morrison, an NAI Senior Scientist, that the documentary cut the crew's conclusion that they were probably seeing one of four detached spacecraft adapter panels. Their S-IVB upper stage was 6,000 miles away, but the four panels were jettisoned before the S-IVB made its separation maneuver so they would closely follow the Apollo 11 spacecraft until its first midcourse correction.[41] When Aldrin appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 15, 2007, Stern asked him about the supposed UFO sighting. Aldrin confirmed that there was no such sighting of anything deemed extraterrestrial, and said they were and are "99.9 percent" sure that the object was the detached panel.[42][43][44]
Interviewed by the Science Channel, Aldrin mentioned seeing unidentified objects, and he claims his words were taken out of context; he asked the Science Channel to clarify to viewers he did not see alien spacecraft, but they refused.[45]
Here is one piece of work on superconducting gyroscopes, supposedly producing a small anti-gravity effect, they call it gravitomagnetism, which is a real phenomena but the evidence seems to point to a much larger field than standard theory predicts.
http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/33973-scientist-creates-artificial-gravity-through-superconductors.html
There are citations here but it is in a science fiction/fantasy site. I have seen this work in other more reputable sites however.
Thanks sonhouse. Linking out from this site is a Christmas lecture in 1974 about gyroscopes. It's well worth watching.
I was surprised to then hear the lecturer, Eric Roberts Laithwaite (who clearly believed he was the
next Tommy Cooper) say that he believed Newtons laws only applied to
linearly accelerated objects. He provided some practical demonstrations to
this effect and went on to compare Newtons law to DC and the laws governing
rotating objects to AC.
Video
http://www.gyroscopes.org/1974lecture.asp
PDF
http://www.gyroscopes.org/papers/Engineer%20through%20the%20looking%20glass.pdf
'At this time, Laithwaite suggested that Newton's laws of motion could not account for the behaviour of gyroscopes and that they could be used as a means of reactionless propulsion. The members of the Royal Institution rejected his ideas and his lecture was not published. (This was the first and only time an invited lecture to the Royal Institution has not been published.) They were subsequently published independently as 'Engineer Through The Looking-Glass'
Despite this rejection and despite the fact that Laithwaite later acknowledged that gyroscopes behave fully in accord with Newtonian mechanics, he continued to explore gyroscopic behaviour, maintaining the belief that some form of reactionless propulsion could be derived from them.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Laithwaite
It's the first time I have heard of a reputable scientist exploring the idea
with any kind or vigour. But it seems that every attempt to explore the
idea to exhaustion (including Tesla's) is met by a lack of funding.