| Vadim Chernobrov is way out there. An energetic Russian with an 
				Abe Lincoln beard and a polyester three-piece suit, Chernobrov 
				cut his teeth in UFO research as an employee of the "spacecraft 
				department" of Moscow's Aviation Institute. At one stage 
				Chernobrov decided to branch into time travel. Not surprisingly, 
				he had problems getting state funding. With his meager savings 
				he built a time machine himself. To avoid ridicule, Chernobrov 
				and his team didn't actually call it a time machine. They 
				preferred "Prospective Space Transportation System." The system 
				is small: slightly larger than a basketball, in fact, and 
				covered, apparently, in "electromagnetic skins." 
 The orb has a top panel that could lift up, revealing a tangle 
				of wires and several small clocks. One wire pokes out, 
				connecting the device to an electrical transformer. Chernobrov 
				claims the Prospective Space Transportation System could control 
				time rates. In his tests he claims to show that for every 3,600 
				seconds outside of the system that only 3,560 seconds would pass 
				inside -- 40 seconds slower. The electromagnetic fields, he 
				said, altered the passage of time.
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