Wait a minute … I had a link? Damn I’m gettin’ senile! I don’t recall that at all.
If anyone’s interested, the demo is meant to be launched at 6pm BST tonight, that’s a little under two hours.
Allegedly the webcast will be at Steorn - Informasi Teknologi Terkini dan Terbaru but this currently gives a 403 error.
Depending on my workload I’ll try and head over there at lunchtime tomorrow (and look for the telltale extension cord snaking out of the display case )
Looks like it’s now 6PM ET (USA, I presume):
Their streaming video page (cameras not yet running):
Delayed:
Technical difficulties? With a perpetual motion machine? Gosh!
The camera is currently displaying live pictures of Big Ben and a commentary advertising the streaming company.
Technical difficulties - i.e. it doesn’t work.
Absolutely classic scam material… as noted upthread, there will now be a constant stream of missed deadlines, promises that “it’s coming soon, just need to fix a minor problem”, and “it’s always worked in our offices”. :dubious:
I reckon a sweepstake is needed on the types of excuses they come out with… next they’ll say the awful summer weather has blocked the vibrations in the ether, or something.
I am sticking to my prior post that it’s gonna be Performance Art. The game is going to be seeing how long they can string everyone along, like that deal where you get people to look up at a building until dozens of people are looking at nothing.
Ha! The museum isn’t even going to be open today. I rather suspect that this is the end of Steorn’s little adventure. It appears they didn’t even build the test unit until yesterday. They’re not even attempting to look professional. As one comment on the Steorn forum puts it, the company’s approach is “Leap off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
I find myself wondering: is it possible that they built and tested all of their prototypes in one geographical location? Maybe an office with overhead power lines?
Like repeal some laws of nature?
It would make everything so easy if that’s all it took. Like maybe if we could repeal the law of gravity over, say, just parts of Florida…rockets could be sent into orbit a lot faster.
Or their Dublin office is sitting on top of a massive lump of meteorite…
Or Kryptonite?
Actually, I think I may have found the geographical quirk responsible for their unusual findings.
Here is the contact page on their website, complete with directions for how to reach their offices. And what’s the final step of the directions?
:dubious:
That could be it. I’ve heard that the drinks they serve in pubs can make things seem to spin around without stopping.
And, if you drink enough of them, they can be observed to defy gravity and reappear shortly after drinking. Clearly these guys need to be watched.
If anyone still cares, the cameras are up and streaming, but not much is going on. I am not sure if this disc shown in camera one is meant to be part of the device, but it has a strange similarity to an overbalanced wheel set-up…
I don’t think that can be the whole device - there’s almost nothing there. Maybe they’ve removed it to [del]replace the battery[/del] ‘realign the fields’.
I was just watching the “Live” video feeds, and I noticed that there was a person near the clear box that contains the device on camera 1, but not on camera 3 or 4. I switched back and forth a few times to make sure. The cameras cannot all be live and directed at the same location. They’re either in different rooms or playing back a recording.
I still can’t figure out why these people would drag this out so long. I don’t see how they’re making money from this scam.
–FCOD
I saw someone moving about on camera 1, but it takes so long to switch between views that they might be moving out of shot before I look on the other camera.