bottleboy8 t1_iu736ew wrote
Naval Research Lab is still investigating cold fusion. And they own a patent on a device that looks very much like the tic tac UFO's recently reported.
"In December 2018, the U.S. Patent Office approved one of the strangest applications in its 231-year history, from a Navy engineer who was confident he could design nothing less than a physics-denying craft that could fly at massive speeds, not just across the sky but into outer space and even under the ocean."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-navy-try-to-build-its-own-ufo
ovationman t1_iu74bjy wrote
Anything in the public like that is either trolling and or other bullshit. It is also good counter Intel to trap stupid spies/ track Intel flow.
amatulic t1_iu7arr7 wrote
I am skeptical of the reliability of The Daily Beast as a source for this, particularly since the links to the alleged patents don't work, and I was unable to find those patent titles in the Google patents search engine. According to the Wikipedia article on the inventor, these patents are likely intended as hoaxes to mislead adversaries.
ZER0SE7ENONETH OP t1_iu73n0q wrote
This is awesome. That's a type of vehicle I've thought about for a while. Something that's aerodynamic And hydrodynamic. I was wondering when we'd see something like that.
Fake_William_Shatner t1_iu7aoza wrote
Well, as much as cold fusion became synonymous with bad science. I think fusion at the nano scale is more promising than the designs that try and recreate conditions on a star. Stars are incredibly slow at burning their fuel. So sustaining the heat and pressure without all the mass will always be hard to sustain efficiently.
Using charged plasma to accelerate air and supercavitation would allow airships to be nearly frictionless. So, glowing craft seems very likely to me.
The microwave thing, not sure. Right angle interference pattern that causes a motive force as a side effect? I could see that but it wouldn’t be super fast— ultrasonics might work in air, but, probably not with a lot of thrust.
journalissue t1_iu81ek0 wrote
In your linked article, it says an engineer at NAVWAR Pautuxent River, not NRL, had filed the patent
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