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classified 06-11-2011 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by dangonay (Post 7468277)
I've got a carburetor you can put on any car and get 100 MPG guaranteed. I can't market it because the oil companies are getting in the way, but if you want I'll send you the plans and you can build it yourself.

did you watch that gas documentary where there were guys that made those one sold to a car company the other people that invented it died

shawn79 06-11-2011 08:32 PM

stone cutters probably using this material to build bunkers with when judgement day comes they will be hiding under bunkers made out of that material

SlowRider 06-11-2011 08:45 PM

this is a bullshit article...this is so fake its not even funny.......

haha13 06-11-2011 09:06 PM


dangonay 06-11-2011 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by StylinRed (Post 7468476)
yeah except this guys stuff was actually tested by Nasa and ICI and the military etc

I was in talks with NASA myself for a new type of rocket fuel I invented that would use half as much as now to launch the shuttle. We were close to signing a deal, but NASA didn't like my terms and backed out. If you ask NASA about it they will deny everything, but it did happen.

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Originally Posted by classified (Post 7468681)
did you watch that gas documentary where there were guys that made those one sold to a car company the other people that invented it died

Never saw that one, but it sounds like all the others. The oil company bought it. A car company bought it......and so on. Same urban legend, just with a slightly different twist.

Nightwalker 06-11-2011 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Graeme S (Post 7468587)
It's the material of the future; it's an impossible material. It's easily worth more than a billion dollars.

It's worth nothing without it in the hands of a corporation with the resources and connections to produce, market, and sell it.

StylinRed 06-11-2011 09:24 PM

he has a blog and youtube page

hasnt been updated in ages though

http://mauricewardstarlite.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/mauricewardstarlite

StylinRed 06-11-2011 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dangonay (Post 7468739)
I was in talks with NASA myself for a new type of rocket fuel I invented that would use half as much as now to launch the shuttle. We were close to signing a deal, but NASA didn't like my terms and backed out. If you ask NASA about it they will deny everything, but it did happen.

except publications like Janes did their own tests and published them

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Jane's International Defense Review, April 1, 1993, p. 328; "Taking the Heat: Astonishing Results with New Material"

Modern Plastics, June 1994; "NASA, DOE To Test Nuke-Proof Resin"
etc



you can be a doubting thomas all ye want but you cant deny that credible institutions have tested and confirmed results and even say so



edit: been googling

a lot of people think its either a hoax or that the british/us govt. had classified starlite so no news could be found

anyway this guy with his own website itold did investigating of his own

http://itotd.com/articles/653/starlite/

it has a lil more information its interesting if you're interested in this story ;)

apparently the itold.com guy even had a discussion with the Janes defense article author

and she also fears that the product may have been taken by the govt and classified and she says that was also a fear of Maurice Ward the inventor hence why he got/allowed publicity for it back in the 90s

Graeme S 06-11-2011 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Nightwalker (Post 7468749)
It's worth nothing without it in the hands of a corporation with the resources and connections to produce, market, and sell it.

Which is exactly why he's not being unreasonable in asking for half the profits. This material could literally create industries with a removal of the limitation of current materials' heat tolerances. If I'm going to make hundreds of already-rich people rich (the shareholders) why shouldn't I go along for the ride?

Manic! 06-12-2011 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Graeme S (Post 7468587)
It's the material of the future; it's an impossible material. It's easily worth more than a billion dollars.

As of now it's worth nothing to him and his family. He died with out making a penny off it. I would rather have a small piece of a large pie than no pie at all.

StylinRed 06-12-2011 02:57 AM

^^^ theres no news of him being dead except for supposedly a youtube comment

and a guy who created/edited a wiki page

you would think the attention he's gotten would result in a news article somewhere about his death (hell the BBC did a story on him last June because he said he had an idea for the BP spill)

Manic! 06-12-2011 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by StylinRed (Post 7469002)
^^^ theres no news of him being dead except for supposedly a youtube comment

and a guy who created/edited a wiki page

you would think the attention he's gotten would result in a news article somewhere about his death (hell the BBC did a story on him last June because he said he had an idea for the BP spill)

Either way he has made zero off his invention.

Death2Theft 06-12-2011 08:07 AM

Hilarous that he would think BP would shell out billions for his invention when they are just pumping concrete in to plug the leak which costs fuck all.
Total overkill like titanuim chopsticks.

dangonay 06-12-2011 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by StylinRed (Post 7468764)
except publications like Janes did their own tests and published them

you can be a doubting thomas all ye want but you cant deny that credible institutions have tested and confirmed results and even say so

I want to see these tests. And I want to see original articles, published by the testers themselves, not a "quotte" or "reprint" hosted by someone else.

rsx 06-12-2011 11:51 AM

lol he got too greedy, now he's "softened his business practice" idiot.

minoru_tanaka 06-12-2011 03:03 PM

Just so you guys know, I'm the one, holding back car that runs on water and perpetual energy generators. I'm hiding the fact that Obama was born in Mecca.
Tupac, Biggie, MJ and Elvis live in my basement studio making records
The Philadephia experiment is AKA the building of my yacht and 9/11 was me doing renovations (sorry my hand slipped)
I know people tell you guys that it's big oil, the jews, the aliens, the US govenment etc.
Well that's sort of true but they're only doing it because I told them to. Yes the conspiracy is that deep.

jsx 06-12-2011 08:06 PM

yo minoru, im really happy for you, im going to let you finish but maurice ward had the best plastic of all time!

minoru_tanaka 06-12-2011 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jsx (Post 7469736)
yo minoru, im really happy for you, im going to let you finish but maurice ward had the best plastic of all time!

Yes but I've forced everybody to use plastic that can only stop a lead bullet. One lead bullet then they have to buy a new vest and no one will ever figure it out

AzNightmare 06-12-2011 09:36 PM

Lol, this guy should have went on Dragon's Den or Shark Tank. Get some help from people that know how to make big money.

minoru_tanaka 06-12-2011 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by AzNightmare (Post 7469864)
Lol, this guy should have went on Dragon's Den or Shark Tank. Get some help from people that know how to make big money.

I would have told them to screw him over

frozen 06-12-2011 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Graeme S (Post 7468800)
Which is exactly why he's not being unreasonable in asking for half the profits. This material could literally create industries with a removal of the limitation of current materials' heat tolerances. If I'm going to make hundreds of already-rich people rich (the shareholders) why shouldn't I go along for the ride?

lol you make it sound like the guy's gonna live forever. What the fuck does it really matter to him how much it's worth after he's gone. Might as well get a small share and live the rest of his life wealthy instead of wasting time getting nothing.

Manic! 06-12-2011 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by AzNightmare (Post 7469864)
Lol, this guy should have went on Dragon's Den or Shark Tank. Get some help from people that know how to make big money.

Kevin would have told him to license it, take a royalty, sit at home and relax.

StylinRed 06-12-2011 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 7469969)
Kevin would have told him to license it, take a royalty, sit at home and relax.

he would have ripped him off and told him to take a 7% royalty because that's a "standard" rate

Nightwalker 06-12-2011 11:11 PM

The value of something is only as much as someone else is willing to pay for it.

Over 20 years, no pay off. Obviously his approach hasn't been working out.

Manic! 06-12-2011 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by StylinRed (Post 7470015)
he would have ripped him off and told him to take a 7% royalty because that's a "standard" rate

7% of a billion is a lot more than 100% of nothing.


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