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Letter: Letter

Published 9 February 2002

From Howard Medhurst

The anti-gravity machine described in Podkletnov’s 1992 paper seems to be
almost identical to the gravity generators used on the starship Enterprise, as
described on page 144 of Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical
Manual, by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda, copyright Paramount Pictures
1991—except that the Star Trek devices have larger
superconducting discs and spin a lot faster. Of course, that can only be a
coincidence, can’t it?

Crawley, West Sussex

Issue no. 2329 published 9 February 2002

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