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DAVID: Right. So how is my shadow showing up on this Who could have built an engine of this size in space? I have thing? And stranger still was that the shadow moved about a half —_ never discussed this publicly. But I was curious and I wanted to a second behind me. That really got my attention. And I thought, replicate that engine design, which was clearly built in a weight- "If this is what I think it is...a heat sensitive recognition alloy..." less environment. And then I realised we don't have [any] known material that could ROBERT: Which means outer space? do that. DAVID: It would have to be deep space. Like intergalactic DAVID: So I looked up at the engine and I asked for permission _—_ deep space, away from any planets or stars. to climb to the top because I wanted to see the damaged area. The ROBERT: I guess you wouldn't want your design process to thing had a hole about four feet in diameter in the side of it, and —_ encounter any gravitational fields? this was the area that most interested me. Now, think of a figure DAVID: Right. The less the better. They are called "gravity eight, and right where the two circles cross each other is the eye of | convections". They didn't want any gravity convection currents to the hurricane. That's where the damage was located on this engine. show up in the alloy shaping process. Knowing my own engine, I was assuming that this thing had Anyway, when I placed my hands on the engine to pull myself experienced some kind of breach in the electromagnetic flux field up, I began climbing up the exterior of the engine, which was that acts as the containment wall that harnesses the power of the designed with an exoskeletal structure. The best way to explain reactor engine. this is to look at the designs of H. R. Geiger; he is the designer These engines basically function like a magnetic bottle or that created all the sets of the Alien movies. sphere, and inside you have contained the power of the Sun or a ROBERT: What happened when you touched it? hydrogen bomb continuously detonating. It's not impossible to DAVID: It was warm, which didn't make any sense at all. It figure out how this works, because it occurs all the time out in was so cold in that hangar, you could almost see your breath. I space. Black holes can suck an entire galaxy full of suns into looked around on the floor and saw no power lines. And I asked their point of singularity. Obviously a black hole has no problem myself, "How in the world could this alloy be staying warm?" containing that fusion energy. And it was really hard. It was the hardest material I have ever What I did was mathematically fig- touched. It didn't give anywhere. The ure out a way to artificially create a surface cohesion tension on it felt synthetic black hole. And because it more like a baby's skin. It was sup- is based on a figure-eight design, once ple, but hard and warm. it has stabilised it will always implode ROBERT: That is weird, espe- and consume itself without pulling " . ’ cially for metal. everything around it in. But this And then I realised we don t DAVID: Yeah, and I was think- Soe Aen ad Posts Stabila have [any] known material ing, "What the heck is going on?" ion in the figure eight, and that's why in nd as I was crawling up every- I was so curious about the hole. that could do that. where, I touched the surface and it The way this engine was built was reacted. When I turned and looked really cool. There wasn't a single at the Air Force guys, all their screw or rivet or weld seam anywhere mouths were hanging open. And so on this entire device from end to end. I assumed that the reaction they were It looked like it was grown rather than seeing hadn't happened for them, assembled. And I thought, "Man, because wherever I touched it there whoever built this really has some incredible manufacturing were these really amazing blue and white swirls moving down techniques." through the hull of this thing. It looked like wavelengths that you Over the years, I have been able to replicate this process to some see on an oscilloscope. When I pulled my hands off, it stopped. extent in an experiment that I built. It flew onboard one of the And I said, "Wow! This thing is reacting!" 1993 Space Shuttle missions. It was part of the GAS (Get Away So I continued to climb up until I reached the centre area. It Special) program. That's where you rent space in a 55-gallon drum had these vertebrae that branched off, cascading, fibre-like. They for your project. The first thing I did was melt alloys together, and —_ looked almost like fibre optic cables filled with some kind of when you spin them in a weightless environment you can create fluid. They were very small tubes the size of angel hair pasta. any type of dimension you want, because I figured out a way to —‘ There were millions of these things cascading over the hull of this control this. There was always a question about how you shape engine. And I thought, "Boy, these patterns look familiar." Then liquid metals in a weightless environment. It's a containerless it dawned on me: they looked like neural synaptic firing patterns. process. It's a real phenomenon. There were millions of them going out everywhere on this thing. ROBERT: You made a form without using a mould? So I thought that maybe the engine was designed with an DAVID: Right. I figured out how to take a fluid glob floating exoskeletal brain. And at that point, I reached out and grabbed in this weightless environment and control it. For every geomet- some of the fibres and found that they were really tough and that ric shape and dimension, we know there is a corresponding sound _ there was fluid in them. And wherever I touched, no matter what wave. So I created this machine that was attached to a Moog syn- I touched, there would be a reaction to it like a tremor of visual thesiser, which allowed me to replicate any shape I wanted simply lights. by playing notes. This machine generates interlocking standing As I walked down into the damaged area of this thing, I finally sound waves that vibrate, even in space, and which allowed me to said to the Air Force guys, "You know, this thing is a power plant. shape the liquid metal. It is more than a propulsion system. It is a power plant. It obvi- That process proved to me what I had suspected when I first ously came out of a big vehicle...a craft of some kind. Where is saw the engine at Area 51 in 1971: whoever built that engine used this process. This raised an even larger question in my mind. Continued on page 76 have [any] known material that could do that." NEXUS +59 "And then | realised we don't Continued on page 76 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com