Curiously, none of the three colleges that he founded have anti-gravity monuments, those colleges being Babson College in Wellesley, MA Webber International University in Babson Park, FL and Utopia College in Eureka, KS. To market the mission of the GRF, Babson made large donations to various colleges with the stipulation that they each set up one of these strange monuments. As for the activities of the GRF, they basically held meetings, sponsored scientific papers, and generally attempted to not stand under heavy things. To accomplish this ambition, Babson set up the Gravity Research Foundation in New Boston, NH, in the late 1940s (he thought the town a safe enough spot if nuclear war broke out…real estate was a much different game back then). Water, though, for some reason he was okay with.

As a result, he wanted to fight that mysterious non-force with both fists (full of cash). You see, Babson wasn’t a big fan of gravity, which he apparently blamed for the childhood drowning death of his sister and the later drowning death of his grandson. However, once he had a pile of money thick enough to pad his walls, he indulged his eccentricity a bit. For instance, he liked to found colleges, theorize about financial markets, run for U.S. His entrepreneurship manifested itself in many of the usual ways. I really want to make fun of that, but the guy did all right. Babson paid them to.īorn in Gloucester, MA, in 1875, Babson hit it rich as a financial wizard whose alchemy involved somehow applying Newtonian principles to predict the vagaries of the stock market.

Anti-gravity technology is still just a science fiction plot convenience up there with faster-than-light drives and force fields, so why are these colleges honoring this imaginary technology? Because a man by the name of Roger W. Large upright granite slabs have been erected in multiple places of higher learning as testaments to all the hard work and diligent research that went into the invention of the world-changing technology that helped us defeat gravity. Far from marking the giant dead (since that would be silly), these memorials are monuments to anti-gravity. March 11, 2010 - Scattered throughout the campuses of various colleges along the East Coast are a series of oversized tombstones.

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