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To: Go_Raiders
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Newton's third law of motion.
17 posted on 12/25/2016 9:04:15 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
As with the "ion drive", propulsion is achieved by "pushing" a wave or particle. Avoiding the whole, wave-particle duality, the cumulative thrust of such a small force (say exhaling) would amount to significant momentum over time.

In a zero - or more princely low gravity - environment, trivial forces can become substantial. I don't know much about this "EM Drive" but seems to fit that. Now how about spinning up a gyroscope in space and using that for a drive system...

26 posted on 12/25/2016 9:33:30 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”.

Yes. When Oneanderthalobama declared NASA a muzzie outreach program, the Chinese began dealing with the Klingons.


30 posted on 12/25/2016 9:52:37 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Can’t help remembering a video of Kelly Ripa riding around the TV studio in a kid’s express wagon, using a CO2 fire extinguisher as her jet engine. (I still can’t believe the fire extinguisher has that much force.


48 posted on 12/26/2016 4:27:20 AM PST by Tucker39 (In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Newton's third law of motion.

EM drive isn't violating Newton's 3rd Law. EM Drive microwave energy might create micro fractures in the space vacuum, and unbinding even a microscopic fraction of the space vacuum would unleash massive quantities of energy.

51 posted on 12/26/2016 5:07:02 AM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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