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Sat Jan 16 01:12:48 1982
Analog 'hoaxes'
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE MIT-MC AT>
       (1) John W. Campbell personally saw the Dean Machine and
stated many times that he saw a (small) reduction in the
apparent weighht as measured by a bathroom scale when the
machine was turned on.  The machine jumped around a lot,
however.

       (2) G. Harry Stine actually touched it and states that
when turned on, it had a much stronger resistance to horizontal
motion (it was at that time turnd on its side with a push-rod
along the axis of 'thrust') when turned on than when turned off.
he took no measurements because he was not permittd to.

       (3) Several aserospace firms including Boeing and MMM
attempted to purchase the dean Machine after the famous picture
in LIFE of Dave garroway thrusting a peice of paper under the
machine.  Dean wanted about $1 million and a Nobel prize IN
ADVANCE.  i know for a fact that one aerospace firm sent an
irrevocable letter of credit worth $500,000 if signed by all of
a three-person team (two engineers and one lawyer); their
instructions wer to buy the damn thing if there wwere ANY lift
or thrust whatever, on the groudns that a major company would
get it working (and i you build airplanes you can build
spaceships if you have a drive./..)

       They were unable to examine the machine sufficiently to
be able to form an infomred conclusion.

       (4) No one knows whata happened to the original Dean
Machine.  The one described in the patent is NOT the machine
that we saw operate.

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