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8343733 No.8343733 [Reply] [Original]

I've been thinking about this particular idea for a flying vehicle propelled by manipulation of magnetic force for a few months now. I got the idea after taking the bus from College of San Mateo to the Caltrain station after school. It's a beautiful bus ride with scenery of nature, the mountains, and huge redwood forests. Basically, it's a polymer prism or ball (whatever works), and the pilot sits inside. A is a rolling magnet cylinder and B and C are magnets of the opposite polar direction. Something like that. The pilot controls movement of the flying prism, or ball, and the steering options trigger certain locks or rolls of magnetic items. The whole propulsion system works by the opposing force between magnets.

>> No.8343746

Why don't you draw a force diagram instead of a shitty MS paint pipe dream and think about how this is mean to propel something.

>> No.8343798

>>8343746
Because it's a simple to understand system

>> No.8343902

>>8343798
This could work but any vibration at all will perturb it and cause the magnets to stop moving

>> No.8343913
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8343913

>>8343733
lmao

>> No.8344656

>>8343733
So, since relativity exists, what is holding this "machine" in air (counteracting gravity)? I doubt this moves fast enough to even consider wings

>> No.8344669
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8344669

>>8343913

>> No.8344701

>>8343733
>I got the idea after taking the bus from College of San Mateo to the Caltrain station after school. It's a beautiful bus ride with scenery of nature, the mountains, and huge redwood forests.
Why did you feel the need to mention this?

>> No.8344702

Just buy some monopoles from the Chinese and you're golden

>> No.8345296

>>8344701
He's setting the scene you uncultured plebeian

>> No.8345322
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8345322

>>8344669
ironically this would actually work (in space), NASA actually did it, its photonic propulsion.

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>>8343913
>>8344669
I can't believe I have to post this again