Now I don't know John Hutchison or the circumstancees
involving this arrest and other troubles. Not a lot I could
do about it either way, but it certainly says we all need to
keep ourselves as legal as possible when riding the razor
blade of what is acceptable and what is not.
KeelyNet has intentionally circumvented some of that risk of
problems by adding in an occasional outrageous claim or idea
that the academics and POSSIBLE control groups instantly
relegate as half-baked. It serves as excellent deflection
from the stuff that matters..<g>..much like a magician,
watch this hand while the other does the mischief.
Mark Solis sent an optional post that I think might add some
insights into this thing with Hutchison, particularly his
views on Marc Millis, the NASA guy promoting the advanced
propulsion initiative program.
I have to agree that there are way too many vested interests
in rocket technology for any useful changes to be made in
our lifetime. For my money, I would JUNK NASA and start
afresh but that is a personal opinion based on my disgust
with the focus on rocketry. And the observation that the
future technologies including advanced propulsion will be
discovered in garages and small workshops, totally away from
teams and thinktanks...
That is why we need to NOT be afraid to do simple
experiments, even if they might appear that everything has
been discovered...I think we miss much and lose much by such
an attitude.
Here is the email Mark sent;
Subject: John Hutchison
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:08:02 -0600
From: Mark Solis <masolis@bellsouth.net>
Dear Mr. ******,
Thank you for your interest in John's work and his present
imperiled situation.
As you may have read, this is the second time he has been
raided over his antique gun collection.
This time, however, the photographic interest was in the
lab, not the guns. Very strange.
Regarding Marc Millis: I do not actually believe that his
group is truly nterested in advanced propulsion per se, but
instead is part of a rather elaborate scheme to keep people
believing that a stardrive is an impossibility, or at least
an unlikelihood ("in the forseeable future", as his own site
states it), rather than something which, at least according
to my own research, ought to have been built about thirty
years ago.
Such a scheme would be motivated by a vested interest in the
rocket industry (think "Iron Triangle" here), as well as the
fundamental problem posed for a world tyranny by the ready
availability of a technology that allows most anyone to hop
to space as easily as visiting the corner Brookshires.
Picture Han Solo's Millineum Falcon blasting out of Mos
Eisley with the Imperial warships in hot pursuit....
Of course, there's also the simple fact that when it comes
to a major paradigm shift in scientific thinking, innovators
always meet a lot of resistance (as in Lord Kelvin and the
Wright Brothers---Kelvin died in 1907, still asserting that
the first powered flight was a hoax).
I've met Millis at the International Space Development
Conference (ISDC), and I gave him copies of all my papers
from 1993 and 1994. I got the distinct impression that what
he really wanted was a guideline for precision debunking of
what I had to say. (I was the top draw of the 1994 ISDC in
Toronto, even over Buzz Aldrin, second man to set foot on
the Moon.)
If you have visited my Beyond The Cutting Edge page, then
you have discovered something of the technology that's been
lying around for many years.
The fascinating thing is, I haven't posted half of what I
need to. Both my page and John's are ripe for revision.
Mine is under major revision.
(Don't worry; nothing is being deleted. Rather, much will
be added, and the page now will be a well-designed "frames"
page. It's already behind schedule, but...I'm busy,
obviously.)
Guenter Nimtz has been sending signals at up to 30c on a
test bench for the last four years. A Swiss graduate
student named Laro Schatzer has obviated the theoretical
need for Minkowskian spacetime.
Leo Van Dromme has proposed a once-and-for-all experiment to
demonstrate addition of velocities for light from a moving
source (actually already demonstrated, and the results
published in "New Scientist" in 1962 by an "Anonymous"
protege of Kantor, whose work was done primarily in the
1920s and 1930s, along with the work of Birge and Miller).
T. Townsend Brown's work was demonstrated to the DoD back in
1950, but was based on work that dates back to the previous
turn of the century. Rick Andersen, an amateur researcher,
inspired the Advanced Technology Group, Inc., to perform a
demonstration of the force developed by the use of A-field
gradients.
(They've pulled the pages, interestly enough. Hmmm...maybe
they observed something REALLY interesting? And decided to
keep it to themselves??? Or maybe THEY got "raided" for
something?????)
And dear friend John...has demonstrated dramatic effects on
Van Der Waals forces (which probably includes gravitation,
assuming that Falzmann was right after all).
But look what happens....
I would not look to "the Establishment" for help in these
matters....
Personally, I think the first star drive will be developed
in somebody's garage in the suburbs.
Then, I think that once word gets out, both the inventor and
his work will promptly disappear, never to be seen or heard
from again (like Harry Grepke and his hybrid-electric
prototype cars, later appearing as "GM" prototypes,
ultimately shelved until further notice)....
Millis and his bunch will go right on saying "...not in the
forseeable future...."
And John and I, and others like us, will be watching our
backs.
What can you do?
Tell everyone you know about the link to John's page.
Spread the word, and accept our thanks.
Yours truly,
Mark A. Solis
masolis@bellsouth.net
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John Hutchisons website is at;
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Thinktank/8863/main.html
Note about the raid;
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Thinktank/8863/index.html
Related material;
http://www.keelynet.com/energy/gestalt.htm
http://www.escribe.com/science/keelynet/m4495.html
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