*UPDATE 09*
V1.17 Updated 29 June 1977
I've been so busy answering mail and adding other pages that I've had to beg off for another few days to catch my breath! The site just got hit really hard with all the new links to my site, and my stats went through the roof! Over 15,000 files and over 30 countries as of this afternoon! I used to entertain myself with checking stats about 3 times a day to pick out who (actually where) got what files. Now I get hundreds in an hour, no hope whatsoever of doing individual break-outs of information!
Mail is keeping me at the keyboard at least 5 hours a day, Jean-Louis Naudin in France is diligently running experiments and we exchange mail several times a day. He's sending me films of the experiments as they progress, and I will be getting some of them in here. Please check out his site (linked in the links page from index) for the most up-to-the minute results of his work.
As a result of his work, DON'T do the "bowling ball" experiment with a bowling ball! A HOLLOW sphere is needed, such as a glass fishing float or other hollow sphere of good mass. It has to do with the nearly double spin inertia of a hollow sphere for a given spherical mass, and the effect requires a hollow sphere!
I have added a new page that explores this phenomenon to report incoming results and mail that centers on this subject. This Ongoing Experiment is just the beginning of a new reality!
In the mean time, check out the new links page I've added, visit these great sites, and send their respective authors some mail! While you're at it, I still have a few more hours in the day to answer mail to me!
It amazes, and quite frankly baffles me, the number of readers that visit this site (and, as reported to me, other sites), that have a very low percentage of responders, given the high readership. Of course I understand the concept of "surfing", the practice of just following our mouse wherever your curiosity may lead. That's the beauty of this new communication medium, exposure to a very wide spectrum of knowledge and events.
As a point of reference, I myself will sit up until the very wee hours of the morning returning mail to me, just because I like it! The GIT project began it's life as a burning need to get out information to my reflected other selves. That, of course, is the main goal of the HUGE expense I have incurred in this endeavor, admittedly for my own needs.
The GIT project has taken on a new meaning to me these days. Obviously by the splash of my "invention" all over the world, the understood inherent danger of massive legal battles that may result in claims by others of my technology is noted. Cie le vie!
My concern these days is a lack of ability (or willingness) to explore new territory by the main body of earth's inhabitants. How is this possible? What happened? Am I living in the Twilight Zone?
I see a big battle coming, between those willing to give, and those determined to take! The well of creation is deep, wide, and transparent to me, I believe because I'm willing to share! But now I'm getting pushy, a practice abhorent to my way of thinking. SO SHARE! (Just a thought).
Things are heating up here and time is of the essence - Responde sil vous plait (R.S.V.P. = answer mail (coloq) (n.b. David likes to get mail ! - just thought I'd let you know. . . Rosalie)
Teusday 1 July 1997
Two more things needed to go in this time slot of historic documentation.
First, I had a "revelation" last night about a common experience most of us had as children that would get across the concept of inertial propulsion. Of course todays children are being cheated out of that experience in the name of "safety" (actually it's more likely in the name of Insurance Premiums and liability!), and that is the playground swing.
Back in the good old days of the hard swing seat, before the gripping and tenacious flexible strap seat came along, we used to do a thing standing in the seat called "pumping". You could get the swing to start a good pendulous swinging, then stand in the seat and start moving your center of gravity up and down in a timed manner to increase the end points of the oscillation.
We didn't use such high falutin' words of course, it was just something the other kids showed us, and after a few tries, we were going for the record! I must have launched myself hundreds of times from the seat that way, getting the cuts and bruises sure to happen by getting yourself thrown dozens of feet into the playground!
I can hear the gasps of parents and teachers now, wondering if I'm advocating the return to hard seats in the playground swings. No, but it does speak to the loss I feel for today's children, being so protected and coddled that many of my experiences that helped shape my reality (and taught me in no uncertain terms the limits of my fragil body), that some of the things I learned the hard way, when my body was more flexible and could heal faster, may be performed at a later time in life by them, when they aren't as flexible.
OOPS! I digressed! All of the above is to say, in my opinion, that playground practice is a good example of inertial propulsion! We didn't call it that, we called it fun! However, it is a common experience that shows the principles of many of the patented propulsion devices that use a timed variable radius weight about a rotation center to get linear thrust from a circular motion.
The other thought wanting in here is that the GIT project might also be called the "Grand Intelligence Test", in that for me anyway, intelligence is the ability to remain mentally flexible, to continue to learn and grow with new input.
Intelligence is also the ability to communicate, and if only a few people in the world can follow your reasoning, then you're not intelligent in my eyes, you're a technical specialist, isolated from the main stream of life :( so sad, so very, very sad,.....sniff! ):
It amazes me that no one to date has performed a complete mathmatic analysis of the GIT (Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster). Maybe some of you have done so, and just don't care to share it with us.
If positive results were obtained, perhaps a monopoly of the device is envisioned, and such persons are engaged in the practice of submitting patent's for everything and then going to court hoping the "opponents" (myself included) won't have the resources to do battle, and they "win"!
Of course I can see that coming (from today's perspective anyway), because I have the URL's of those of you repeatedly picking up my files and updates, and know you haven't bothered to contact me about any results. I know that such a crime will be punished soundly and swiftly, don't ask me why, (this isn't a threat by me) I just have a certain knowledge of some future events.
If negative results are obtained, maybe you don't want to hurt my feelings, believing that I'm so wedded to my toy that it would crush me, and you don't want that responsability. Hogwash! If you have proof that I'm making a fool of myself, you do more harm than good by remaining silent!
As proof, SOME SAY (Newton included) is not evidence. It has to be a clear, concise and a generally understandable analysis. If I can't understand what you have submitted (such as a bunch of greek letters with a few equals signs thrown in) you have proved nothing. That sort of "proof" is grand standing, an effort to look intelligent when all you've done is confuse and made eyeballs roll.
I won't accept religious proofs (just trust me, and have faith in the great works of others), one such individual tried that (he has my respect for trying anyway), and is now no longer welcomed here. I don't take kindly to being told I'm a tool of the devil, and a false prophet! That's some very unbalanced thinking, and a sure way to get someone(s) hurt!
As of last night (the end of June) stats indicate over 19,500 file transfers within the first 8 weeks on the net. Readership is growing, over 30 countries are now in on this project, and a very small percentage of them are in communication with me. If you would like to be included in this history as a contributor, run the numbers, experiment, GET INVOLVED!
Stay tuned!......... Teusday 11:36 am 1 July 1997
Wednesday 2 July 1997
I've got to learn to hold my updates to a regular schedule so information won't be missed by my regulars, but this one couldn't wait and I'll repeat it in the next update.
I have had a few of the folks that write me want to be included on a new page I will be posting, hopefully by the middle of next week. The page will be a networking list of people who are wanting to recieve mail from others centered on their interests.
If you would like to be included on that page, send me your name, your e-mail address, web site address (for related sites), and up to 2 lines (about 30 words or so) of interests that you would like to recieve mail about.
This site is centering on alternative propulsion, and alternative energy, but other interests you have are OK as well (within reason, as younger explorers also visit this site).
Networking is a good way to find out about things you might never discover without open communication with others, and I believe will help insure that some of the very needed inventions and ideas get put into reality (like my invention).
Have a happy 4th folks, stay safe, and PLEASE REMEMBER WHAT YOU ARE CELEBRATING!
Perhaps sometime soon, we can have a heart felt celebration, rather than a hollow perfunctory ritual, the meaning of which is lost on the majority! OOPS! I'm preaching again!
-------------------------Wednesday afternoon 2:30 pm 2 July 1997
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