Radus boots = permanent magnet on/off switch?

[Blainiac]

I found this not too long ago, and did a quick search on the site to see if anyone else had talked about this and couldn't find anything.  Apparently the boots act as electromagnets, but only use a small pulse of electricity through the coils to make the flux go a different path... maybe a mix of this and the spiral wankel could work?

http://www.cheniere.org/misc/astroboots.htm

[lwh]

I think I first saw these boots when they were mentioned in one of the Hildenbrand Motor threads.  I don't have a link to that reference, but here are some links to when they (or similar variations) were mentioned at other times -

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=4882.msg103644#msg103644

Starting from post#565 http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=7987.560

Starting from post#558 http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=2386.msg215958#msg215958

If I was more of an experimenter and less of an observer I would have tried making a device that utilizes these effects.  Probably by incorporating the magnetic switching mechanism into a simple proof-of-concept gravity-wheel of some sort.  As it is though, I'm still left wondering how difficult it would really be.

[slapper]

History Detectives Season 8: Episode 1:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1513607701/
Go to about 20 minutes in where the spaceboots start.

Take care.

nap

[void109]

I'm not sure what I'm missing, I fear its something obvious.  I see the PBS film showing a Carnegie-melon physics professor demonstrating the effect with the original boot, so I assume that it indeed functions as described - so - is the effect actually useful for OU research?  Is there some counter effect that I'm missing?

Neat video.

[Steven Dufresne]

I'm not sure if that adds to what's already known but in the attached pdf file is as much of The Pittsburgh Press Feb 5, 1963 newspaper article as is shown in the History Detectives episode.
-Steve
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