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The ARDA Mk4 "FairyStar" is the begining of a new serie of flying wings which uses the OAUGDP technology ( One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma ). This is a first step towards a design of the full scale GDP Wing profile which will be used in a future ARDA Flying wing. In the ARDA "FairyStar" design the wing uses a OAUGDP panel as a thruster covered by a glow discharge plasma at high voltage and at high frequency. A kind of GDP panel has already been successfully tested by the NASA Langley Research Center by Roth and Wilkinson and a full report has been presented during the 36th Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno (January 1998) and also in my lab on December 21th, 1999 ( see the Glow discharge plasma skin tests ).
Originally posted by The GUT
Q: UFOS
I'm a little tired and weary of posting links about the connection of plasma to everything ufo. It doesn't get a lot of attention around here.
Shame though, because NASA itself has an intense interest in plasma physics for propulsion purposes and beyond.
Cool OP.
It does on some sites.
Originally posted by The GUT
Q: UFOS
A: Plasma
I'm a little tired and weary of posting links about the connection of plasma to everything ufo. It doesn't get a lot of attention around here.
Hit me. You never fail to contribute quality. PM if'n you'd rather. Hope all is well your way. I need to check your profile and see what I've missed lately.
Originally posted by Pimander
It does on some sites.
Originally posted by The GUT
Q: UFOS
A: Plasma
I'm a little tired and weary of posting links about the connection of plasma to everything ufo. It doesn't get a lot of attention around here.
Originally posted by ZeskoWhirligan
A technology based on Quantum non-local simultaneity would blow EVERYTHING out of the water, rendering all forms of four-dimensional travel hopelessly obsolete.
Originally posted by Pimander
However, we don't know how UFOs get here or where they all come from. They may not arrive/manifest by interstellar travel or use electrogravitics/quantum propulsion to get here. There could be other ways as you suggest. They might even have a more local origin or arrive via some form of time travel or little understood inter-dimensional gateway/technology.
That is not a reason to ignore the clue that plasma is to the type of propulsion many UFOs look likely to be using. For a start any novel form of propulsion is worth pursuing as it may lead to free/cheap energy and release from energy bondage for humans.
Originally posted by ZeskoWhirligan
As for UFOs utilizing "plasma technology," I'm not seeing that. I think that UFOs employ some sort of technology that might create plasma as a by-product — the way our internal combustion engines create heat and water vapor as by-products — but I don't see utilizing plasma as a propulsion technology in itself.
Originally posted by draknoir2
Popular Mechanics did a write up on external combustion propulsion.
Originally posted by Aliensun
Why is it so hard for people to latch onto that simple, seemingly correct theory manner of motion? Is it too difficult to envision a craft that creates a field around itself that cancels mass? Good lord, we see that function in about every science fiction film.