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AIDS Incarceration An AIDS-INFECTED PROSTITUTE WAS WIDELY REPORTED AS HAVING BEEN PLACED IN DETENTION in « major Sydney hospital after she admitted tc continuing to have sex with clients. Knowr as Charlene, the woman was admitted tc hospital last July and subsequently helc against her will under little-used section32A of the 86-year-old Public Health Act. NSW State Health Minister Mr Collins said the woman, had been aware she was carrying the AIDS virus and worked as ¢ prostitute in the Kings Cross area. “The fact is we had someone out there Anti-Gravity Machine! 222 bly has spread a potentially fatal disease tog large number of people,” he announced in “SCIENTISTS WILL SIMPLY HAVE TO Sandy Kidd is now living at Endeavour | early August. ACCEPT THAT I AM RIGHT AND Hills near Dandenong, Victoria and working All very well - except that there have PHYSICS IS WRONG,” according to52- under developmental contract to BWN, a | been very few statistically-inferred cases of year-old Scots engineer Sandy Kidd. company based at Dandenong. A second AIDS infection from a woman to a man via “Only then can we open up the universe prototype was tested in Melboume for three vaginal, oral or anal sex - and no confirmed and take man to Mars in just a few hours days under supervision of specialised engi- cases. of female-to-male transmission at longer than the present flying time between neers, Placed in.a sealed wooden box,it was all. What we do have is a confirmed trans- Sydney and London.” suspended from a chord attached to an over- mission route only from males to females - These outlandish (even unearthly) head beam fitted with sensitive measuring and then probably only during anal sex - claims would normally be consigned to the instruments. Powered by a model aircraft making the prostitute herself the only one at ‘out’ pile - but not when they come from engine, the entire device lost weight as the risk. Sandy Kidd, His invention, the Kidd Ma- vertical thrust overcame the force of gravity. “J am going through a bit of hell and chine, is now being funded by an Australian “Tt created enough thrust to float a small trouble because they won't let me out,” said high-tech company and, although it orange through the middle of a room,” said Charlene. “They won't let me go for a walk. shouldn’t work, it does - repeatedly. Kidd. “People in the laboratory were clearly It’s like a prison. Sandy Kidd set out to create an anti- shaken.” ; “They see me as a danger, but there are gravity machine in 1980, a device which The Kidd Machine produces lift without people here who have got full-blown AIDS could power flying saucers with the energy reacting on air, water or a solid surface and and are leaving; I’ ve just got the antibodies,” of high-speed gyroscopes. While working as therefore appears to be defying Newton's she said in a Channel 10 interview. a planning engineer with a North Sea oil Third Law of Motion which says that every “Again they are locking up the prosti- company for four years, he spent almost action must have an equal and opposite reac- tutes and not the clients of prostitutes, which every spare minute in a makeshift workshop tion. is very distressing,” responded Ms Roberta in his garden shed in Dundee, Scotland. “What Kidd has achieved will certainly Perkins, a leading campaigner for Then, at Christmas, 1984, his machine gen- shake the scientific world to the core when prostitute’s rights. erated its first vertical thrust. “Notmuch, but they realise the implications of the results,” Despite all the mental programming it was there and I was over the moon,” he announced Astrophysicist Dr Harold about AIDS that world and national health recalls. A few weeks later the device was Aspden, of Southampton University, “It bodies are pushing to the contrary, vaginal demonstrated at Imperial College, London, should now be possible to build a machine heterosexual sex has still not been proven to for Professor Eric Laithwaite, an expert on big enough to lift itself off the ground with a ‘be an HIV transmission route by any statisti- gyroscopes. full payload.” cally acceptable studies. After nearly a dec- After watching the 3 kilogram, 45 cm BWN refuses to divulge laboratory de- ade of searching for heterosexual transmis- unit with a gyro at each end of a crossarm, tails, but the device has been demonstrated sion, none has really been found (see AIDS - rise from the test-bench against a counter- onanumber of television programmes. “Full The Real Story - back page of this issue). weight, he described Kidd as “ingenious”. public disclosure would simply encourage In many countries reckless behaviour by “What we have here is a potential space others to build similar devices and perhaps HIV-effected people has been legislated drive,” Laithwaite said. “Properly devel- overtake us,” says Noe] Carrol of BWN, “In- against. This is sensible - except that people oped, this would take you to tie outer uni- dustrial espionage is another risk we face.” can be jailed for taking no risk at all as anend verse on a spoonful of uranium.’ Work still needs to be done to increase result of a disinformation campaign about Two years later, research physicist Dr lift and design a commercial prototype. AIDS which is still underway. People are Bil Ferrier of Dundee University examined “Ttmay takeus several years but we'll get being jailed despite there being no chance of the device on campus. “Its potential is mind- there,” says Kidd. them spreading AIDS in this way. ling,” Ferri 7 . boggling,” Ferrier announced Continues next page Continues next page