Please!
Won't somebody think of the children.. right.. oh..
mines the one with the Kirlian polaroids in the pocket..
Russian schoolgirl invents inertioid-driven Venus rover
A Russian schoolgirl has wowed the crowds at an exhibition of youthful scientific inventions by rolling out a high-tech Venus rover, Pravda reports. Anna Shvetsova, of Noginsk, near Moscow, used “A Step to the Future” to demonstrate her "silvery disk, reminiscent to either a UFO or two bowls glued together" which apparently …
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Thursday 9th April 2009 10:57 GMT goggyturk
Seen this before somewhere...
"As small children, Indigo’s [sic] are easy to recognize by their unusually large, clear eyes. Extremely bright, precocious children with an amazing memory and a strong desire to live instinctively, these children of the next millennium are sensitive, gifted souls with an evolved consciousness who have come here to help change the vibrations of our lives and create one land, one globe and one species. They are our bridge to the future."
Isn't this the same as the children in Village of the Damned?
Mine's the one with the dynamite in the pocket...
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Thursday 9th April 2009 11:00 GMT Tom Cooke
Genes
I know that asking this will lend this credibility it might not need, but d'you think there is any plausible relationship between this and the quite genuine discovery that an increasing number of humans are now being born with a changed gene for a protein used in the brain which may give real advantage? (if I wasn't so lazy I'd look up the reference on Google). I saw it on the BBC so it must be true.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 11:00 GMT DutchOven
Where do I begin?
First off - if two things rotate in opposite directions then as well all know, there is no movement contraray to the direction of the axis of rotation. We only have to look at those personal helicopters to know that.
As for this whole "Indigo" thing. Mwa ha ha. Pull the other one! That alone would be enough for any sensible person to dismiss this entire story as complete bullshit.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 11:00 GMT Allan Dyer
I get this...
with an amazing memory - like "Daddy, you said it was bad to use that word..."
a strong desire to live instinctively - like screaming loudly when they don't get their way, and hitting siblings? "Oh, it's OK, he's expressing his desire to live instinctively."
with an evolved consciousness - unlike all those amoeba, with unevolved conciousnesses
help change the vibrations of our lives - its that jazz/rock/punk/(insert new music type here)
and create one land, one globe and one species - environmental destruction, mass extinction and ecological disaster!
They are our bridge to the future - brilliant, so unarguable
@Steve - knowing our luck, you're the other 5%, and you're just about to create a black hole to swallow us all!
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Thursday 9th April 2009 11:00 GMT Destroy All Monsters
"One land, one globe and one species"
Freddy Mercury!!
inertioid = "forward or rotary motion without physical reaction"
The rotary motion is no problem. That's how an astronaut can turn his body in orbit without touching the walls. Forward motion... not likely. Is this a "reactionless drive" or something? Expect New Scientist to run a cover story which then has to be painstakingly shot down by people who have actual understanding of differential equations and error bars.
I seem to using the Flame Icon a lot. Maybe it's just me.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 11:00 GMT mark jacobs
Natural Evolution of Consciousness
Put aside the external, and think in internal consciousness terms hereonin. We still have a long way to go before we realise that all consciousness is shared instantaneously with all sentient beings all around the universe and through all time. Call it quantum dislocation, but the neuronal pathways that make up the subconscious brain are too far apart for quantum energy jumps, but close enough together in the conscious brain. (Google Matt Pitkanen). There you go then. (Shhhh, I AM getting my coat).
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Thursday 9th April 2009 11:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
Colour me red and call me a sceptic
'Torsional fields' ? Snigger.
No reaction means no inertia, which would mean keeping the centre of mass in one spot so there's no net acceleration. /That/ approach will inevitably come back to bite you in the arse -- sort of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
When 'Shipov’s device' finally boldly went forwards, Mr Duffield neglects the air track as a potential source of kinetic energy - but hey! Working out these scams are fun; my toes are thoroughly kept on.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 11:06 GMT Flocke Kroes
Can they detect the aura of a "sceptic"?
This sounds like an oscillation thruster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive#Oscillation_thruster
These work by throwing an internal mass back fast enough to overcome friction, and make the vehicle lurch forward. The mass is returned to initial position slowly, so the vehicle does not slip back. Oscillation thrusters work fine on a flat uniform surface. They are poor at going up hills, and dealing with surfaces with different amounts of friction.
Oscillation thrusters depend on static friction being greater than dynamic friction, so they do not work at all in space - although they do make impressive demonstrations for fleecing ignorant investors. What colour is the aura of a rich twit dumb enough to invest in yet another impulse engine?
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Thursday 9th April 2009 14:32 GMT Pete
Yeah my kid is one of those
maxed his kindy teachers out on day 4 of pre-school (aged3.5) - by correcting the teacher...
"actually the moon is a satellite."
The next week he taught them about the Large Hadron Collider, explaining that it was an experiment to find out what atoms are made of.
He scoffed at his 5 yr old brother recently, informing him that Jesus wasnt real.
Eyes WIDE open.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 14:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
Yes of course it's all crap don't you know what happened to Pravda...
.. after the end of the Cold War? After the collapse of Communism, Pravda was left somewhat drifting and directionless, there not being much call for an official State Propaganda organ anymore, and it's gradually degenerated into being some kind of Russian version of the Weekly World News.
Having said that, I'm sure its stories are perhaps now marginally *more* close to the truth then they ever were before, but that's not saying much.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 14:32 GMT James
As a colour purple...
was used in a Sci Fi story when a translation machine tried to translate a "wizards" name.
You only find out at the end of the story that the name was actually: "As a mauve" - or Asimov.
Pretty close to Indigo if you ask me - could Asimov have been the original Indigo child.
BTW what happens when they grow up - do they become bureaucratic grey?
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Thursday 9th April 2009 14:32 GMT David Pollard
Russians are much like us then
Scientology has it that El Ron is alive and lives on Venus. The Vatican, when acknowledging the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe, suggested that some ETs might be without sin. Francis Crick promoted the idea of panspermia to explain the complexity of DNA. NASA's funding would suffer badly without repeated discoveries of life on Mars or the new quest to Venus. And a host of financial instruments are apparently based on similar mathematics...
True believers seem to find these stories quite compulsive; and some of their promoters find they are a nice little earner.
Incidentally, if any of the Reg staff find they are having problems with their aura as a result of working with postmodern conjectures such as this at close range, a pint or two of decent ale and a good night's rest usually provides a satisfactory remedy.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 18:28 GMT Aaron
D'you think?
"...d'you think there is any plausible relationship between this ["indigo child" nonsense] and the quite genuine discovery that an increasing number of humans are now being born with a changed gene for a protein used in the brain which may give real advantage?"
No, I don't. That would be stupid.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 18:28 GMT Matthew Barker
Dean drive
Something frighteningly similar was patented sometime back as the "Dean Drive". Except
in the Dean Drive (tm, I'm sure), the weight was slid into the center during one part of the rotation
and out to the extreme over the portion of rotation that was in line with the desired direction of
force.
Sounded like something fun to play with or simulate, but not to patent.
Cheers.
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Thursday 9th April 2009 23:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Indigo and Autism
Replying to lottie's comment that Indigo is another word for HF autism/Aspergers. That's actually not correct. Indigo was originally coined by New Age fluff bunnies to describe children who had never received a single day's punishment in their lives, and were therefore out-of-control brats. Rather than face up to the fact that their children were monsters because they were too fluff-brained to actually instill a little old-fashioned discipline, they just changed the name. Indigo children were also supposed to be psychic and have all these amazing spiritual insights; as evidenced by the fact that they would tell the most outrageous lies in order to manipulate their parents and avoid getting in trouble for being little monsters.
The proper fluff-bunny term for autistic children by parents who don't want to admit that they're autistic is "Crystal Child". The advantage to this term is that parents get to refer to themselves as Indigos; and thus consider themselves more highly evolved than the rest of us amoebae. So they can ignore their children's real problems, and get an ego boost at the same time. Former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy is the epitome of this fluff-headedness.
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Friday 10th April 2009 04:05 GMT Kevin Reader
New discoveries are rarely applauded though...
Just a cynical thought although this propulsion theory probably is 99% bunk.
Think of the distinct lack of enthusiasm that contemporary science showed towards global warming when it was first suggested. Scientists were ostracized. Now its the accepted mantra and anyone saying different is similarly badly treated, especially as there is money, politics, tax and prestige involved in the new status quo. Didn't string theory, quarks, etc all suffer for their acceptance. Blimey even Galileo had a really hard time. Then the vested interests were politics and the church, now its money and politics.
Tip: If you have a sci-fi power source - use it quietly and secretly yourself (with a cover story) or sell it straight to a government, or wait until the fossil fuels run out. Then you might be safe. Perhaps. Helicopters cos if this happens they'll probably collide as different groups fight to steal it and/or eliminate you.
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Friday 10th April 2009 18:16 GMT Richard Kay
Auras are not a new observation
Just look at the halos in religious art. I guess the simplest explanation is that these observations are evidence of synaethesia of the artists and mediums who depict and report these things.
The Wikipedia article on the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia claims one person in 23 experiences a genetic form of this condition.
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Friday 10th April 2009 18:16 GMT Stevie
Bah!
Azathoth on a bike, not this thing again!
The last time I saw this was in the 70s, using a gyroscope precessing on a mount that was resting on a sheet of ice. A weeek later I saw the same apparatus debunked.
Easy to show that the net motion is in fact a frictional effect: simply mount the "drive" on a flat platform resting on a table covered with a loose assemblage of ball bearings. It'll go backwards and forwards til the cows come home (or until two of the ball bearings bind up together and give the thing some net push to get it going).
How the Russians ever got to be a world-threatening power when they waste their time on this sort of nonsense is beyond me. They'll be claiming people can read with their elbows next.
Oh, hang on, they already did that too.
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Wednesday 15th April 2009 08:51 GMT Mr Mark V Thomas
Re: Crystal Children
So I'm a "Crystal Child" according to those New Age fluff bunnies, as I was born what would be now called Asperger's Syndrome, in the mid 60's, & when I was young, medical treatment proposed for me, & my behavioural problems, included Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT for short) , & a possible lobotomy, if that failed ...
Reading the description of said parents of Indigo Children, I can't help wondering if they have undergone ECT...
Mine's the one with the Psi-Corp pin on the lapel, a pair of black leather gloves in one pocket, & a Phased Plasma Gun in the other....
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Thursday 16th April 2009 08:28 GMT cordwainer
But unclear on the concept of language?
Ms. Tappe's statement, "This phenomena is happening..." would seem to indicate that Indigos [note we have graciously removed the extraneous apostrophe] will free us from reliance on such mundane concepts as singular and plural. Of course, she must be correct, since she can predict the future.
We eagerly awaits the day of releasing from the tyranny of grammar and individualness, a glorious revolution when all myriad's of humanitykind is as ones.
I feel my aura blueifying already.
Moods Indigo, unite!
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