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Only if the inventor cares if the general public believes him. Sounds like he's doing this for the Navy, and the fewer people take him and the work seriously,

Only if the inventor cares if the general public believes him. Sounds like he's doing this for the Navy, and the fewer people take him and the work seriously, the better. The US probably doesn't want China or Russia trying to duplicate his work. The patent doesn't indicate anything more than that the idea exists in some specificity. It's something for the inventor, later, when / if the tech doesn't need to be secret anymore.

pengaru 6y ago
> The US probably doesn't want China or Russia trying to duplicate his work. Many would argue the exact opposite: that these patents are nonsense intended to squander adversarial resources spent on vetting them.
- generalizations 6y ago
  Either way. So long as no proof is forthcoming, no one is likely to take it seriously or be able to duplicate it. There's no incentive to prove it works.
  - pengaru 6y ago
    Well there have been a bunch of UFO videos circulated as of late, which if taken as legitimate seem likely to incorporate such inventions. It goes without saying that these patents and the release of such complementary "UFO" videos wastes some amount of time assessing their authenticity at the very least. I have no opinion on whether it's an effective tactic or not. But it does seem like one must assume it at least adds noise to be filtered out.
  - jandrese 6y ago
    If these did work they would revolutionize many industries. The mass reduction device for example has enormous implications if it were to work. In fact you could likely build a perpetual motion machine out of such a device. I mean yeah, most people are going to look at these and call them crackpot nonsense, but the drawings look pretty simple, and since they're all apparently based on this one particular effect all you have to do is test the one effect to disprove all of them.

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Only if the inventor cares if the general public believes him. Sounds like he's doing this for the Navy, and the fewer people take him and the work seriously,

by generalizations 6y ago

pengaru 6y ago
> The US probably doesn't want China or Russia trying to duplicate his work. Many would argue the exact opposite: that these patents are nonsense intended to squander adversarial resources spent on vetting them.
- generalizations 6y ago
  Either way. So long as no proof is forthcoming, no one is likely to take it seriously or be able to duplicate it. There's no incentive to prove it works.
  - pengaru 6y ago
    Well there have been a bunch of UFO videos circulated as of late, which if taken as legitimate seem likely to incorporate such inventions. It goes without saying that these patents and the release of such complementary "UFO" videos wastes some amount of time assessing their authenticity at the very least. I have no opinion on whether it's an effective tactic or not. But it does seem like one must assume it at least adds noise to be filtered out.
  - jandrese 6y ago
    If these did work they would revolutionize many industries. The mass reduction device for example has enormous implications if it were to work. In fact you could likely build a perpetual motion machine out of such a device. I mean yeah, most people are going to look at these and call them crackpot nonsense, but the drawings look pretty simple, and since they're all apparently based on this one particular effect all you have to do is test the one effect to disprove all of them.