INVISIBLE GURU FORUM

Dear Members and soon-to-be members:

For those of you who haven't guessed it out by now, I am being a bit of a conspiracy nut.

Of course, everything is a conspiracy in this illusory world, in a sense, especially the Mind/Body Conspiracy (as I explained in the Series). But, a few days back I saw something on Discovery Channel that really jolted me. It showed how they could remove and replace something in outer space without having the nuts and bolts just fly off and get lost in the darkness. They showed how a small ledge below caught them when they fell. Easy peazy.

Even in my feeble minded condition, what's left of my mind screamed b. s. There is no gravity to make them drop into that little ledge. Aha, I caught them out. Damn I'm good. With that kind of engineering stupidity how could man reach the moon or that lovely lady down the lane do my laundry?

Later that day I mentioned my minor revelation to a acquaintance who is much smarter than I in these matters. He explained that there is pretty much the same gravity in space as right here on earth. He went on to explain that the pull of gravity is offset by the pull of centrifugal force generated by the very fast rotating of the space vehicles round the earth. In effect these vehicles are continuously falling into the earth and continuously being pulled out into space. The net result.. the appearance of neutralization of gravity. Just an appearance though.

Feeling a little like Einstein, I immediately drifted into a thought experiment. I am the space man, continuously pulled towards earth by the force of Maya and yet, due to my lightness and rather high velocity I am also being pulled out into space. It all balances out with minor retro-rocket adjustments and I appear to be in a zero situation. This is why nothing ever appears ''grave'' to me. Upon dropping my space suit, the pull of the earth will have nothing to impinge upon and what is left will spin of into space. Just story of course, but I was fun to play with.

So, the result is my conspiracy theory remains just a wild fantasy (like the moon landing!) and has yet to become a notch in my Space-belt.

My acquaintance winked towards the three men in black sitting a few tables away as if I hadn't noticed them. Not often you see three men looking cool in all black when it's almost 100 degrees out. I had already scoped them and could swear one was Dan Aykroyd. He has put on weight.

My knowledgeable acquaintance refused my request to assist me in arranging a fake Astrophysicist Degree (in spite of the fact that I spelled it properly the first time).

Now I'm back to floating in space. Sure a lot off space junk up here. I still can't figure out how the nuts and bolts fall in the little ledge designed to catch then. Something very fishy going on.

It all ends well in that my acquaintance contacted me late last night and said that for a healthy donation to The Don, he could facilitate my degree from Trump U. I'm now busy working on my C.V. for Space City, Russia. If any forum member can transfer Frequently Flier Points that are redeemable on Aeroflot it would be much appreciated.

Loving you all from space, Jedi

That's certainly possible, however,

1.) The ledge was about three inches away and the pull of magnetism diminishes by the inverse cube law. Doesn't sound practical.

2.) Most stainless steels are non-magnetic. Titanium and it's alloys (most likely the material used) are only very weakly magnetic. Any other exotic alloy, perhaps ceramics or the like, are not going to be magnetic.

Magnets were the first thing to come to me, but I don't think that's the answer.

Love ya, Jed.

Whatever happened to "no time, no space and no universe"?
Whatever happened to "what's not possible in a dream"?

I see no problem.

seems like a great methfor to me. We humans have a very under developt rocket system. Because of that we cannot escape the pulling forces of Maya. HA is there to improve your rocket system (thanks scottie), see it as a upgrade. The pulling forces of Maya will have less influence on you (free of drama). Dropping your space suit means that you had your final realisation T/R. At cost of you ofcourse. Thanks for the thought experiment.