You wrote;
> The thing I keep noticing is that people say it is easy, and then
> say, Look, so and so did it, and all he did was such and such.
> These sorts of modern legends-- and they are often nothing more than
> that-- serve the positive purpose of helping us keep the faith, if
> faith we need, to create overunity devices.
I agree fully we must keep faith in the ideas even though to date we
haven't seen anything that any of us have built and shared.
You also wrote;
> But they also negatively affect people's view of the difficulty at
> hand. All of these legends floating around make it seems as if we only
> need to figure out how to replicate so and so's work and we will be on
> our way. Everybody latches on to a different so and so, for reasons of
> sanity: there is so much out there, and it is really such a confused,
> muddled mess, that to sort it all out would take lifetimes.
I agree with that too, though not so much as duplicating one persons
work as looking for correlations from others that might bolster the
claim and/or aledged technology.
Like many I've communicated, I think when we actually achieve it,
first of all we will be stupified at how simple it was and that we
could collectively overlook something so obvious for so long,
secondly will come all the permutations as many other and in some
cases totally new branches of science will open up.
My dream is to fly with a gravity reduction belt...I expect to
experience that before I'm ready for the next class...<g>..
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