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Here's the link. Some fascinating design there.

We're talking about orbital RLVs here, not fighter jets. The two are hardly comparable.

Same with a VTOL launch vehicle: Land, refuel, take off.

VTOL vehicles *can* be launched from carriers, if there ever should need be. I'll provide you with a link to a study on this done in the 60s. Just a moment...

Well done. But you should have explicitely stated that you expect them to answer you. I did this when I wrote them an e-mail concerning global warming and they actually replied within a few days. However, they didn't address the specific points I had raised but gave me some links to greenpeace websites which didn't offer anyting new...

*reads through winamp playlist*

Abba, Avril Lavigne, Badly Drawn Boy, Beach Boys, Bj?rk, Blues Brothers, Britney Spears (forget that;)), Deep Purple, Delphonics, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Fugees, Genesis, Notwist, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Robbie Williams, Smash Mouth, Strokes, Tom Petty, U2, Village People,...

I also like classical music (Beethoven, Tschaikowsky, Saint-Saens, Dvorak, Elgar, Barber,...) and film music (John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Danny Elfman, Nino Rota,...).
I'm not kidding you, I like all of them.

Success. Shenzou IV has been launched.

From www.gravity-society.org:

Information we received by Marc G. Millis states that ?the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project has been cut [...] Although efforts are underway to restore funding, it is too soon to know if these efforts will succeed. Closely related to this, the NASA tests of Podkletnov's 'gravity shielding' claims, managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center, have run out of funds short of the completion of the hardware necessary to test the claims"

What the hell is going on here...

I know what you mean...

dicktice

Maybe it's one of these rumoured zero-point-energy devices, then it wouldn't have to use batteries or rely on an external power-source.
Your argument "that even the most far-out physics don't contemplate the possibility" [of anti-gravity] doesn't hold any water. Mainstream science has been wrong time and again. Remember Lord Kelvin saying: "Heavier than air flying machines are impossible". He was one of the most recognized scientists of his time. Another one: Newspapers refused to print stories about the first flight of the wright brothers because the so called 'scientists' of the day told them such a feat was 'impossible'. *Nothing* has changed since then: 'Ordinary people' and mainstream journalists are as ignorant as ever and rely on the science establishment to tell them what to make of a new discovery, if it "violates the known laws of physics" or not.
Experimental data, not theory, decides what is possible and what is not.
BTW: There are numerous theories regarding the Podkletnov effect. Two scientists, Ning Li and Douglas Torr, predicted the effect independently and prior to Podkletnov's experiment.

Chinese Space Robot Seeks Employment On ISS

"A robot arm made in China is trying to earn a placement on the International Space Station (ISS) and participate in the construction of the large multinational orbiting outpost."

The commission has released its final report. Check it out.

I just did a search and found this article: Did Newton Get It Wrong?. It's dated october 2002.

""We've seen his work, and we'd like to see it developed further," says Boeing spokesman Dave Phillips."

They have seen his work? What does that mean? Did they travel to Russia and paid Podkletnov a visit in his lab? Anyway, the people at Boeing apparently actually believe that this is for real.

Well, they are reported to have begun testing in September. It may well take them till the end of the year or even longer. Patience...the truth will come out some day.

I read that article by Carlton Meyer, too. Never heard of him either.