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Thu Jan 14 11:19:08 1982
Analog 'hoaxes'
From: Tom Wadlow <TAW AT S1-A>
I think Robert has his facts a little confused about Analog participation in
gross deception.
- The Dean Drive has never been tested (or the tests were not reported
in Analog) by hanging it pendulum-fashion. Analog carried several
articles saying that this is the proper way to test alleged
reactionless drives (I agree). Dean never let his drive system
get into the hands of people who could test it scientifically.
Analog NEVER said it was a real reactionless drive, only that it
MIGHT be one and somebody should try and find out. Several people
did try (Stine among them) but nobody ever got a Dean Drive to
play with and thus nobody knows.
- Thiotimoline (the crystal that dissolved before the water hit it)
was the subject of a series of fiction stories by (I believe)
Isaac Asimov. You are the first person I have heard from to
believe they were NOT intended as fiction.
As for the differences in the Michelson-Morley experimental data, I am
inclined to treat them as experimental error. In any event, I recall
reading that article and being somewhat annoyed that Stine did not provide
references to back up his claim. Flaming on a technical subject is
fine as it stimulates thought, but if you can't back it up you lose
credibility as far as I am concerned.
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