OK, the reactionless thruster type engine has been a staple of SF for, well, decades now, and has been surmised to be how the "flying saucers" operate.

We've all been told over and over that such a drive is "impossible" and "can never be made."

Well, looks like never has come, because people are building "lifter" devices that lift themselves with nothing but electrical power, no mooving parts or any sort of 'reaction'. Furthermore they can operate inside vacuum chambers, so they're not just 'moving air" to work, even tho one theory as to how they work is called the "ion wind".

The bottom line is that current physics can't/don't explain how these things work, but they do work, and the strange thing is that if we had the tech to build a vehicle based on the principle they work on, it would move like a "flying saucer" or maybe like a ship from some SF games, without thrust, exhaust, etc, and while using only electrical power.

To make a vehicle is probably a long way off as these things can only lift a few grams now, since the models are running on housecurrent, but if we ever get, say, practical fusion power and can make a megawatt class fusion energy source that's small and lightweight, things could change.

The neat thing is that you can build one yourself. They're that easy to make.

You just need some balsa wood, tinfoil, wire, glue and a 30-50KV powersupply.

I'm sure most of you can find all that easily, except for the last bit. Now, as to getting a 30-50kv powersupply, guess what? You're probably looking at onr RIGHT NOW. Your computer monitor, assuming you have a standard one and not some flatscreen or laptop type, uses an internal transofrmer that most likely puts out in the required volatge.

So, if you're a SF gamer and tired of hearig how "impossible" things like reactionless thrusters suposedly are and how they can never happen, go here and look around. If you search the links you will find some pdf files that tell you exactly how to build one of these, and if you can snag a dead monitor with a working power supply you can make it for damn near no money, if you can safely work with the high voltage output.

These things really seem to be a type of reactionless thruster, like those in traveller so traveller fans ought to be interested in them. They could actually be the forerreunner of the reactionless thruster engine, since no one today can explain precisely how they work and they do seem to work in vacuum.

If these things, made from tinfoil, balsawood and wire, can lift themselves with just house current, one really has to wonder what one made with supercoductors and powered by a fusion reactor could do.

For decades skeptics and other people who kae a career out of dumping on things have said that antigravity, reactionless thrust, FTL and so on can never happen. Well, it looks like we've got a model of a machine that acts like either antigravity or reactionless thrust now, so I wonder what other impossible things will be made sooner than people think.

I hope SF gamers enjoy this article and find it as interesting as I did.