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The ancient Vimanas: could some ancient civilization fly?


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Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are talking about ancient Vimanas, we must remember one thing, the stories of flying Vimanas might be of Indian origin, but they might come from the 19th. the century or later. So the idea might be "just" build an airship, what could have little bit different form, than Zeppelins. But if we think about the things, that Vimanas might be only the equipment of power, we might imagine that they were actually castles, where the lowest part was open, and if the Vimana were filled with methane, and somebody will drop the candle in the space below Vimana, the explosion will be very powerful, and thermobaric explosion would exterminate everything around this thing.

Actually, Vimanas could not be very big, and maybe the user could stand on the top of it, and when the lowest part, what is made by using weak material would have the stored gas in it will explode, the results might be horrible. The weak part of the structure helps to focus the explosion, and the person, who stands on the top of it would survive.

There are persons, who claim that Vimanas were some kind of spaceships, what was came from other solar systems. The NASA has taken an idea to build the next generation interplanetary or interstellar spacecraft, what would send to an extremely long journey. Also, there is introduced an idea that in the distant future, the giant spaceships will send to some other planet and those fictional spaceships will operate same time as the spacecraft and the base on the Jupiter and Saturn and other planets.

So if we want to write a little bit more about this theory, we might think, that maybe Stanislaw Lem's book Invincible the spacecraft would look like Vimana. Inside the hollow structure would be a nuclear reactor, what would make warm or heat the air inside the chamber inside this ship. So this spacecraft would operate like some giant heat air balloon, and of course, also the ion motors, or electromagnetic accelerators or blowers can be used to rise the Vimana from the ground. 

Then the horizontal motors would allow that craft travel in the Earth atmosphere. Those motors could have propellers for that kind of transfer to some other location. And when the Vimana will fly at space, that spacecraft would operate with normal interstellar motors, what would use antimatter or some other things. That kind of spacecraft will may come in the construction somewhere in a distant future. But now we might not have money to make this thing true.

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