re: #296 ryannon

All very well and good, but you still haven’t explained why the Israeli, the Japanese and SPANWAR in San Digeo are still screwing around with it. Are they that dumb?

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These experiments are cheap. The politicos who fund them think what’s 500k here or there is the potential payoff is that big. Unfortunately, science has always had it’s share of wild goose chases funded by non scientists. NASA even got earmarked money for anti gravity experiments.

Periodically people still fund the latest perpetual motion machine (the NASA anti gravity stuff was an example of that actually). The short form is real scientists never bet against energy conservation or thermodynamics.

Politicians and generals sometimes do if they are thinking what the hell.