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Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby Sickbag » Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:47 pm

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/je ... cid/273274
Designs of what have been claimed as ancient Indian aircraft and attributed to a Sanskrit text could never yield flying machines, aerospace engineers who had analysed the text four( sic) decades ago have said...

The presentation mentioned aircraft claimed to have been described in an ancient Sanskrit text called the Vymanika Shastra, that Sanskrit scholars say had been written by Maharishi Bharadwaj during the Vedic period — sometime between 500 BC to 1500 BC.

But a five-member team of aerospace engineers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, had spent nine months during 1973 and 1974, trying to trace the origin of various versions of the text, talking with Sanskrit scholars and analysing the aircraft designs.

Their analysis of the description of Sundara Vimana — which the text claims was powered by electricity generated by several materials, including donkey’s urine — revealed what the engineers said were violations of Newton’s laws of motion.
I strongly suspect that a mere nine month study of this proposition will not be detailed enough to be conclusive.
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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby Sickbag » Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:48 pm

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/je ... cid/273274
Designs of what have been claimed as ancient Indian aircraft and attributed to a Sanskrit text could never yield flying machines, aerospace engineers who had analysed the text four( sic) decades ago have said...

The presentation mentioned aircraft claimed to have been described in an ancient Sanskrit text called the Vymanika Shastra, that Sanskrit scholars say had been written by Maharishi Bharadwaj during the Vedic period — sometime between 500 BC to 1500 BC.

But a five-member team of aerospace engineers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, had spent nine months during 1973 and 1974, trying to trace the origin of various versions of the text, talking with Sanskrit scholars and analysing the aircraft designs.

Their analysis of the description of Sundara Vimana — which the text claims was powered by electricity generated by several materials, including donkey’s urine — revealed what the engineers said were violations of Newton’s laws of motion.

I strongly suspect that the mere nine month study of this proposition is not detailed enough to be conclusive.
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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby Sickbag » Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:53 pm

YES
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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby Sickbag » Mon Sep 27, 2021 7:33 pm

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/je ... cid/273274
Designs of what have been claimed as ancient Indian aircraft and attributed to a Sanskrit text could never yield flying machines, aerospace engineers who had analysed the text four decades ago have said...

The presentation mentioned aircraft claimed to have been described in an ancient Sanskrit text called the Vymanika Shastra, that Sanskrit scholars say had been written by Maharishi Bharadwaj during the Vedic period — sometime between 500 BC to 1500 BC.

But a five-member team of aerospace engineers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, had spent nine months during 1973 and 1974, trying to trace the origin of various versions of the text, talking with Sanskrit scholars and analysing the aircraft designs.

Their analysis of the description of Sundara Vimana — which the text claims was powered by electricity generated by several materials, including donkey’s urine — revealed what the engineers said were violations of Newton’s laws of motion.
I strongly suspect that a mere nine month study of this proposition will not be detailed enough to be conclusive.
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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby Sickbag » Mon Sep 27, 2021 7:34 pm

NO
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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby Gabriel » Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:05 pm

Are you ok?

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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby Not_Karl » Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:00 am

YES
NO
NO
YES
Are you ok?
Maybe he drank too much fermented donkey urine? :?
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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby 3WE » Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:04 am

Two words, Gabriel: Biofuel

Or maybe just one.
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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

Postby elaw » Wed Sep 29, 2021 1:47 pm

Checking whether the domain donkeyurinepoweredjetphotos.com is registered... surprisingly it is not!
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Re: Ancient Jets fuelled by donkey urine?

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