I once spent 14 months to build a device which might be useful for space travel.
That was 13 years ago (back in 2002).
Unfortunately I was travelling with my family and living in North Korea at the time.
The device I built was confiscated by the President of that time, Kim Dae-jung.
He confiscated the deivice on the grounds that "their military had allready patended the device and all similar products".
That made me rather upset, but I was just a kid and quite scared, seeing as North Korea wasn't the easiest place to vacate in (and still isn't).
My mother later told me she was really nervous and glad I didn't make a scene, as we might not have been able to leave the country, and in worst case been sent to prison.
Anyways, enough about the background story and on to the device itself:
It was simply put a small modified helicopter, with a built in device that folded the space-time in an area around it roughly to the size of a slightly big basketball.
The space around the helicopter was folded in such a way, that the space in front of the helicopter was compressed to about 0,05% of it's original size, and the space immediately behind was expanded to a magnitude of 1.800.
The helicopter had a maximum speed of 6.5 km/h, but when activating the device, even when flying at it's slow pace, to an outside observer the helicopter was travelling very fast.
People couldn't actually see it, as it were travelling so fast that you could say it was "invisible".
When flying at top speed the helicopter would be going at an astonishing 3.250 m/s.
I usually kept the helicopter at a slower pace though, as it was to hard to control without a preset route.
Sometimes I used the helicopter for local pranks (like driving past policemen and pulling their wigs off with the generated air pressure), but I mostly used it to pick up mail from the local post office.
I really enjoyed communicating with my old friends back in Norway, since I were quite lonely and often builled by the other Korean kids.
I couldn't tell my friends much of what was going on because the mail was always read by Old Lady Kuk Mun-Hee (but that is a different story entirely).
I would love to write more about the helicopter and how it works, but to be quite frank I'm allready nervous writing what I allready have.
The North Korean government made it quite clear at the time that I did not own the rights to the product or even the idea. I were under no circumstances to attempt to build another one.
I guess that includes sharing information about it, but I felt I had to write something for the good of the world.
Now, if I Hye Shin (my North Korean handler) contacts me on skype about this matter, I'm gonna really piss my pants!
I'm pretty sure he doesn't know I have a d2jsp account though, so I should be fine.