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Dr. Eli Vance, Harvard graduate and researcher at the Black Mesa Research Facility, has reportedly invented a device that will change the future of moving cargo and rearranging bedrooms forever. The Zero-Point Energy Manipulator, also known as the Gravity Gun, gives the user the ability to lift and move objects of all sizes with the flip of a trigger.

Cargo companies are interested in the Gravity Gun to help laborers move crates and boxes more efficiently from shipping containers and onto trains and trucks, and the individual version of the device will be small enough to help your local moving company get heavy items up stairs in new homes and apartment buildings, help police move disabled cars from roadways, even help you move groceries from the parking lot into your kitchen. Current versions of the Gravity Gun can only move inanimate objects, but Vance reports that he is working on a prototype that incorporates Heisenberg compensators, which will allow it to move animals and people. Farmers and ranchers are interested for obvious reasons, and EMTs and first responders are lining up to try the prototype for emergency situations.

Dr. Vance's invention represents a significant advance in the understanding of quantum and Newtonian physics, and in recognition of his work with the Zero-Point Energy Manipulator, Dr. Vance has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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Posted by: Peter Curran
April 2, 2007 5:10 AM

A much more elegant form of the gravity gun exists in my new novel, The Ancient Order of Moridura,
however I applaud your efforts to market a cruder version for general
use. I should warn you, however, that you may receive alarming missives
from rogue wing of The Ancient Order because of it, but at least you will get a trip to El Monasterio de Moridura in Extremadura.


Posted by: Dallas Noeys
March 4, 2008 1:49 PM

Clearly a spoof. Dr. Eli Vance is a fictional character from the game half-life as is the Black Mesa Research Facility.


Posted by: really now
June 16, 2008 8:39 AM

Really a spoof? No way. Did you happen to look at the post date? April fools? Wow no way


Posted by: B
March 12, 2009 7:47 PM

almost beleaved it! HaHa! How would the word have any jobs if there were such thing as the Gravity Gun! Maybe some day.


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