# Invest in a UFO! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966 "2006-07-11T03:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/1 "2006-07-11T03:18:20Z")
[eBay scam auction](http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Machine-Flies-WITHOUT-ANY-interaction-with-environment_W0QQitemZ190006794351QQihZ009QQcategoryZ63678QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > Flying Machine – Fly WITHOUT ANY interaction with environment > > No rockets, no propellers, no jet engines, no balloon… > > I am 32 years old, married and have 3-page curriculum vitae. English is not my native tongue, so it happens to me to make mistakes while writing. However, even if some of my sentences are wrong, I always think right. Please keep this in mind when you read the following… > > You are bidding on: > > 49% of all rights and revenues from my invention. This 49% is valid without any time or space limit. > > My invention is: > A machine heavier than air that fly without any interaction with its milieu. This machine need no air nor any other element around to fly. It could fly on the atmosphere, on the space and even under water… Blahblahblah. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/2 "2006-07-11T12:06:02Z")
Some eBay boob: > [@](#): > > I don’t consider this auction as a way to make money. . . :dubious: :wally ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/3 "2006-07-11T15:38:59Z")
Pssh. It’s just another zero-point energy device. Like we don’t have a million of those already. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Kitkatcrunchy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kitkatcrunchy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitkatcrunchy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/4 "2006-07-11T21:22:29Z")
hehe I particularly like: “When the prototype is built, I share with the secret and all the plans. So, we will be 2 on the world to know exactly how this machine flies. Next, we can start to market this invention; with a working prototype and a 30 seconds video they would kill to have it.” - One why not share the plans before the prototype is built. - Two, yeah people really would “kill” to have it, I seem to remeber a disappearance of a certain man who created the “water-car”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/5 "2006-07-17T00:31:01Z")
> [@](#): > > **Q:** Hi i’m only 12 and I know this is a scam If you win the BS your selling is like cardboard and you just push us up on cardboard come on get real if it went to space NASA would have seen it because NASA sees everthing you dont even have a picture scamming is mean and now someone will win that and pay for it and get a flying cardboard box > Jul-16-06 > > **A:** When I was 12, I used to have more imagination than that. A few thoughts: [ul][li]Dude’s getting picked on by a 12-year-old! :D[/li][li]When I was 12 I could punctuate.[/li]He’s building a transmogrifier![/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/6 "2006-07-17T02:06:26Z")
The guy will end up producing a Segway with fins. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/7 "2006-07-17T05:19:03Z")
A racing stripe would make it look sharp. ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/8 "2006-07-17T05:35:12Z")
I like > [@](#): > > In the space: the more time you have to accelerate, the faster you could go. Also, I have it on good authority that when the potential difference across the skin is doubled, its voltage _also_ doubles! And from the Q and A: > [@](#): > > Q: What a fantastic product! Hey, do you want to buy a bridge I have for sale? > A: Thank Sir. I need no bridge for the time being. You could sell your bridge on the Real Estate category on eBay. I have seen some. That just cracked me up. Mayo ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invest-in-a-ufo/363966/9 "2006-07-17T14:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > This 49% is valid without any time or space limit. Just make sure that you get no limit on dimension as well. I can’t begin to tell you how many people have gotten screwed out of their investments when the guy just ups and changes dimensions. Lawyers are the only winner in that scenario.