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Inertial Mass Reduction Device

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Re: Inertial Mass Reduction Device

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Presumably left unfunded?

If only - they wasted half a million dollars of taxpayer money demonstrating that obvious crankery is crankery. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39012/the-navy-finally...

In an ideal world, the navy would tiger team it: once per funding period, introduce an obvious crank proposal?

Edit: there was a comment from your link that suggested this might have been a "known bad" signal injected to estimate intelligence leaks. A biography of Michael Collins I read implied there was a fair amount of falsification of paper records, even extending to within British archives. I've always wondered how much the Nazi+occult memetic connection could be ascribed to (a) cross-contamination from Indiana Jones, (b) propaganda, or (c) [especially in light of Nancy Reagan's penchant for astrology?] successful influence of a Stierlitz-style spy.

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scherhorn

Edit2: of course, people being careless and buying it is the most likely interpretation.

PS. what is aluminium oxide w/ chromium?

Re: Inertial Mass Reduction Device

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only - they wasted half a million dollars of taxpayer money demonstrating that obvious crankery is crankery. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39012/the-navy-finally...

In an ideal world, the navy would tiger team it: once per funding period, introduce an obvious crank proposal? Edit: there was a comment from your link that suggested this might have been a "known bad" signal injected to estimate intelligence leaks. A biography of Michael Collins I read implied there was a fair amount of falsification of paper records, even extending to within British archives. I've always wondered h…

>PS. what is aluminium oxide w/ chromium?

A ruby.