Real Flying Carpets?

[Will E Worm]

Real Flying Carpets? Maybe, Says Harvard Professor.

It may not be big enough to carry Ali Baba or any of his 40 thieves, but a Harvard professor thinks he's figured out how to make a flying carpet.

Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, an engineer who also holds positions in applied mathematics and biology, writes in Physical Review Letters that it would be possible to make a rippling sheet that could generate enough horizontal resistance to stay airborne.

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That is just what we need.

Shouldn't the professor be doing this at his home?

Why do people hold Harvard is such reverence when they do things like this?

Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan

 

[Wainkerr99]

Comes with hooter, lights, indicators, windshield. Hmmm. May as well stick with a small aircraft.

 

[Skyraider22]

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That is just what we need.

Shouldn't the professor be doing this at his home?

Why do people hold Harvard is such reverence when they do things like this?

Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan

Only in Ivy League schools:dunno:

 

[gunslingingbird]

Any surprise that the guy has a Hindu name? :1orglaugh

 

[Hot Mega]

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That is just what we need.

Shouldn't the professor be doing this at his home?

Why do people hold Harvard is such reverence when they do things like this?

Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan

There are flying carpets already. They're just surrounded by a fuselages, wings, fuel tanks and engines.

 

[calpoon]

Well since Global Warming is fake, what more important things to scientists have to do with their time?

 

[Wainkerr99]

^^ Chinese finger puzzles, Rubik's cubes, huge arrays of dishes to listen for a distant squall?

 

[gunslingingbird]

^ You forgot to mention looking for Bigfoot.

 

[Will E Worm]

Well since Global Warming is fake, what more important things to scientists have to do with their time?

Cures for diseases and making natural medicines instead of synthetic drugs.

Just for starters. :hatsoff:

 

[calpoon]

those would be medical biologists and chemists, not physicists or mechanical engineers. thanks for playing. please try again.

 

[Will E Worm]

those would be medical biologists and chemists, not physicists or mechanical engineers. thanks for playing. please try again.

I wasn't talking about them. So, thank you for playing along and misinterpreting. :hatsoff:

Mechanical engineering They can make more fuel efficient engines, without sacrificing power.

Well since Global Warming is fake, what more important things to scientists have to do with their time?

Scientist, which could mean any of the different types.

 

[tdomaster]

aladdin did this since more than 100 years ago

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Any surprise that the guy has a Hindu name? :1orglaugh

Kinda like a Scotsman (me) insisting that Nessie is real.

 

[D-rock]

Unless it comes with a genie that can grant wishes then it isn't worth it.