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by ta1234567890 2344 days ago
Pretty cool. Reminded me of what this guy is doing, he calls it "orthosonic lift": https://youtu.be/kG6vXGidQbo

Some more info: http://sciencechatforum.com/viewtopic.php?nomobile=1&f=77&t=...

I believe he has a couple of patents on the technology, but not sure he'll ever get around to making something practical with it.

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Just wanted to throw my opinion into the mix.

I watched multiple of the videos he has listed and from what I can tell the phenomenon he is demonstrating is real and reproducible.

Whether or not he's crazy, who's to say?

This has many of the red flags for "technological" development that won't withstand scientific scrutiny.
What flags, specifically?
Author is a crackpot, judging by his posts on that forum
Have to agree, he sounds a lot like those "infinite energy" guys that were around a few years ago.
Pretty much anyone over 40 doing a home video in their garage is going to come across like that. It's really unfortunate, but appearances do matter, a lot.

In this case, besides the appearances, what the guy is demonstrating in the videos seems legit.

Here's an earlier video where he explains what he believes is the effect at work, with a simple demonstration: https://youtu.be/I3g0CcLzC6I

It would be awesome if a youtuber like Steve Mould or Dustin from SmarterEveryDay did a video on this.

The patent won’t hold. We have prior art from alien spacecraft for decades now.

Most of our current propulsion and lift mechanisms are based on momentum transfer, which has many problems in air. His work makes me think there are a lot more efficient mechanisms to be discovered.

okay; sorry. I was trying to compliment him on something I found interesting by alluding to it being alien technology. I took aeronautical engineering a long time ago, and I've never seen anything like this, so maybe it's just a foolish amazement.