Update: Some pictures of the machine have been released
http://dispatchesfromthefuture.com/2007/07/first_glimpse_of_an_orbo.html
-as well as some (perhaps speculative) diagrams of construction.
It doesn’t even seem to be a particularly novel idea - I’ve seen machines of this construction before - it seems to be based on the idea that if you angle the magnets, you can sneak up on them easily and then be repelled away in a forward direction, which is just nonsense.
It’s been about four weeks now. No word from Steorn on a new demo.
I guess the corporate directors have managed to get their money out of the numbered accounts and are just now settling in to their palatial beachfront villas in a Caribbean island without extradition treaties. Should be an announcement any day now.
I’d ask who gives money to people like this, but then when concerned types send money to Nigerians who desperately need their help getting money out of accounts to the West, its clear at least that someone does.
Well, they fooled me, at least partly, and for a while.
Like many other people, I was sitting, waiting to see how Steorn was going to turn it into a scam, but I believed them that there was a jury, and that they weren’t seeking funding.
Whereas in all probability, it already was a scam, there was no jury, and they probably were seeking funding on the quiet.
As a fourth grader, I came up with something like this. Thought I was real clever.
If you came up with this at 9 years old, you were clever…
Depends whether The Them is talking about the magnets or the scam.
Not particularly. 
Not clever enough to get people to throw money at you though… 
I hope this isn’t reviving a zombie thread, but has anyone heard anything from Steorn recently?
I was so looking forward to a demonstration of perpetual motion…
They have released no communication of any sort since the failed demo.
I suspect they have fled, or are fleeing, with investor money to a place without pesky extradition treaties. It’ll take awhile to get the money lined up for escape, but it’ll likely take longer for fleeced investors to get the cops involved.