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The future, it does not always turn out the way we pictured it. Did you know that you are living in a version of the future right now. Sit in a chair and close your eyes. Think of what things will be like in the future and then open them. While you were sitting in that chair you traveled into your future by the few seconds it took to think about things. This is like a past future because by the time you think about what happened you have traveled even further in your future. I once heard of an automobile being described as a time machine. It was said that if you wanted to see the past just look out the back window and to see the future look out the front. For both things to be true, the car may have to be moving. Time is a strange thing. We think of it as traveling in a straight line, that is we travel only from past to present to future. This may not be true however and may only be how things seem to us pitiful humans at the moment.

The truth of the matter is that there are things that humans just don't understand, even though they are common things. Look at electricity, we don't know exactly what it is. This is not the only thing that has us puzzled, another example is gravity. Humans have been trying to defy gravity for quite a long time. We have constructed kites, balloons, airplanes and rockets but these objects don't really defy gravity. The airplane creates lift but doesn't not reverse the effect of gravity. It sort of overpowers the particular effect of gravity on earth, but would be totally ineffective on a place that had enough gravitational pull to overcome it. A rocket is pure muscle and bullies it's way off of the earth. Balloons are lighter than air so they float away and kites ride the air currents yet all of these objects are still under the influence of gravity. If we could build a machine that defied gravity and used it against itself, it would be the first machine capable of doing this. As a matter of fact, scientists have been attempting this for many years now. If they succeed, this type of reverse gravity propulsion might be able to be used to power a spaceship around our solar system. Before this can happen, we have to learn what gravity is and what it isn't.

Right now when we think of gravity, we tend to think of it like a magnet, only this magnet can attract everything, not just metal. What we want to do is to take another magnet and reverse the poles so that instead of attraction we get repulsion. This way a vehicle would be pushed off the surface of the Earth without a large expenditure in fuel. For those of you that believe that ufos are alien vehicles visiting the Earth, this is said to be the method that the small ships, that are released from the mother ship, use to fly around the planet. Even if you don't believe in ufos, you have to admit that if we could perfect this form of propulsion, it would revolutionize space travel. Some say that we have made tremendous strides in this area, while others say that all we have been able to do in the last 20 years is get a non metallic object to float a couple of feet above the floor. It is hard to tell who is right since a project of this type is surely classified.

It has been reported that Boeing, the huge aircraft and spacecraft company, has been working on an antigravity propulsion system. As usual there is no way to verify this, but it makes sense if they want to stay on top of the airplane and aerospace manufacturing business. They have an advanced research facility and it is busily trying to tackle this problem. The company is trying to hire a Russian scientist that it thinks has made a breakthrough in this area. It is said that the Russian government is not allowing this. You can understand that if indeed a Russian scientist has been able to build a gravity propulsion system, why that government would try and keep it for itself. Can you imagine if the shoe was on the other foot? I don't think that this government would allow one of our scientists to work for a Russian company under those circumstances. This is one of the problems with the world, we think regionally instead of globally. The welfare of the Earth should be the most important thing to us.

The name of the Russian project started by the scientist that Boeing is trying to hire is GRASP. This stands for Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion and the name of the scientist is Dr. Evgeny Podletnov. Boeing doesn't really know if Dr. Podletnov has succeeded with any of his experiments, but the concept is so important to them that they would love to examine his work. Why are they so hot to find out about this? The company feels that if there is any validity to the doctor's work, than it has the capability to change the entire aerospace industry and they certainly want to be on the forefront of this change. At the very least, they don't want to be left out. Talk has it that Dr. Podletnov has already demonstrated an antigravity beam that was able to repel objects about 3/5 of a mile away. It is said that even when the beam is projected over a mile away, it doesn't demonstrate much of a reduction in power. The beam is not perfected, by any stretch of the imagination. If an object is placed directly on top of the doctor's apparatus, it will lose only up to 2% of it's weight. While this is not enough for any practical use, it certainly shows that gravity can be manipulated and this has Boeing chaffing at the bit. If this power can be amplified some way in the future to repel an object and be made small enough to power a craft, we will have a new way of flying through the solar system and maybe the universe.

Boeing is not the only company going after the good doctor. Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems are also said to be seeking his services and there may be others as well. If this antigravity engine is ever perfected, poor Dr. Podletnov will never get the credit he deserves from some people. There are already many people out there that say he is not developing an antigravity engine, but merely reverse engineering one from the many ufo wrecks that the governments are hiding. The poor guy has been working on this project for many years and it is ironic that in the minds of some, he is just a reverse engineer. Even without him, Boeing is going full steam ahead with their antigravity project or at least that is what it seems. NASA is going to build a copy of Dr. Podletnov's machine and who knows what other countries are doing the same thing. Will we have a usable antigravity engine soon? Who can tell? We will just have to hope.