It was greeted with skepticism, mockery and institutional resistance. Its advocates were seen as “revolutionaries” seeking to upend the military status quo and add yet another layer of bureaucracy to ...

Here is the scene: Some people have found an old starship at the top of a cliff. They want to get it flying and leave the planet. An engineer-types says, “We have to achieve terminal velocity in order ...

So I was checking out one of my favorite crackpot sites and the contention was made that if you take two steel balls (I think it was 1" steel bearings) and spin one at 27000rpms and launch them both ...