Or with apologies to Jackie Gleason, at least into Earth orbit. Some cool stuff on their website including more movies of their exploits and experiments. Why can’t more companies have fun like this?

B.C. inventor wants to put pop bottle rocket into orbit

Ken Schellenberg, who has adopted the alter-ego on his company website, wants to put a simple but highly engineered bottle rocket into orbit.

This could be impossible, but the CEO of AntiGravity Research already holds the altitude record for boosting an elongated plastic pop bottle – propelled by a bicycle pump, water and a bit of soap – into the air.

Firing the ubiquitous, two-litre plastic container usually consigned to the recycle bin into space might create a whole new definition for space junk, but the dream keeps Schellenberg going.
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“I named the company before I had anything to do and people still call wondering if we’ve got a (Star Trek-style) transporter ready or if we’ve been able to defy gravity in the way that people think of anti gravity.

“I tell them ‘No,’ but we’re hoping to stumble across that sometime soon.”


The inventor guy and a view of his super secret laboratory in the Canadian wilderness from one of his rockets.



  1. MikeN says:

    In the meantime, there’s an actual contest to send a rocket to the moon, and your fellow tech writer Bob Cringely is one of the entrants.

  2. Mark Derail says:

    At best he said it would be 5 km.
    Which is still quite a feat.

    However, far short of LEO.

    My money bet is still on Virgin Galactic.

    His technology could rather have purpose for UAV’s for the military.

    Imagine a cute payload with a “Take Me To Your Leader” which contains a stealth GPS transmitter.

    The cute payload could be a Blu-Ray DVD with full motion video of supposedly female virgins in various stages of physical activity.
    With a player of course.

  3. JPV says:

    Actually that video was EXTREMELY annoying. I was more interested in seeing more details as to how the thing was constructed, and how it works, than I was with their idiotic and amateurish gibberish.

  4. Uncle Dave says:

    #3: Go to their website.

  5. John Paradox says:

    Watching the video, I now know what happened to Dr. Clayton Forrester when he was fired from the Gizmonics Institute.

    J/P=?

  6. qsabe says:

    He is cool and having fun. What are you naysayers doing other than vegetating front of your monitors.

  7. gunny says:

    Hmmm … if they used diet Coke and Mentos in that second stage, I bet they could get it up another hundred feet.


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