There's an article over in Wired about backyard experimentation with anti-gravity devices.

Very weird! I'm checking out the American Anti-gravity web pages... they have construction guides and everything like anyone can make one... hmm...

I just thought of something... Doesn't that Ionic Breeze air cleaner and Sharper Image is always pushing blow air through a room with no working parts? Maybe this new science is not as new as I thought, just applied a little differently...

Maybe it's not really an antigravity device but another way to push air around? What do you think?

Could be. To test that theory, one would have to test it in a vacuum chamber. It could also be that it relies on ionization of some sort, which could also be tested in the same manner.

Call me a skeptic -- I think it's a fake. I've looked at several of their quicktime videos, and the 'lifter' moves exactly like an object on fishing line, with the resolution being so coarse that you couldn't see the strings if they are there. In addition, the camera angles are always looking down, so you wouldn't see any string harness / pully system.

Jerry Pournelle had links to this on his site about six months back. At that time, there were no construction guides on the antigravity site.

I will be trying this out. It is (1) a hoax (2)An electrostatic effect, which doesn't mean it is not useful (3)it is what Ventura claims it is.

We shall see.

Well, it would be pretty sad for this to be a fake after all the information, parts list and contruction guides being put up for anyone else to duplicate. Also, I've seen other web sites about "listers" reporting the same results...

I personally think it's just an air pusher. The electrostatic charge moving from the corona wire to the aluminum foil is moving air down, thus pushing the thing up. At least that's this "non-scientist"'s opinion...