Posted by Patrick (66.185.84.206) on October 22, 2003 at 03:01:10:
In Reply to: Avalanche Drive posted by Andrew on October 22, 2003 at 01:21:24:
Check out link below for a good analysis of the avalanche drive. I would recommend reading his entire site prior to experimentation.
A quote from Simanek: "In order to keep a moving wheel unbalanced, some outside agent must do work on the wheel."
Which I would re-phrase slightly to: "In order to keep a moving wheel unbalanced some outside agent/input(from a fixed point without or non-rotating position within) must influence the wheel.