Posted on 05/14/2015 1:46:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
* Nasa is thought to have successfully tested a revolutionary power source
* Claimed it could fly for eons at the equivalent of 450 million miles an hour
* It is powered by a device similar to that found in a microwave oven
* Invented by now retired British scientist Roger Shawyer a decade ago
Anyone who has ever watched an episode of Star Trek or a Star Wars film will know how it works.
The good guys are minding their business in outer space when suddenly the Klingons or the Dark Empire bear down on them out of nowhere.
There is only one way out. At the flick of a switch, our heroes are flashed — in a blur of passing stars — to safety elsewhere in the universe.
Call it warp drive or a hyper drive, it adds up to the same thing: a miraculous power source that allows a spacecraft to fly at unimaginable speeds.
But while it’s so far confined to the realms of sci-fi, the concept could become reality.
U.S. space agency Nasa is thought to have successfully tested a revolutionary new power source that could enable spacecraft to travel to the Moon in just four hours instead of more than three days and to Mars in two or three weeks instead of seven months.
Compact enough to fit into a suitcase, this whizzy new device could — it is claimed — keep flying for eons, at the equivalent of an astonishing 450 million miles an hour....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I want one for my scooter!
If only... if only...
4 hours to the moon is NOT warp speed. Not even 4 seconds.
Limey science cop: “All right, what’s all of this then...?”
It’s in the Daily Mail so it’s gotta be true, yes?
With an object so close you wouldn’t want to get full acceleration going, I would think.
IIRC, in Star Trek, they’re not even supposed to go beyond light speed in the Solar System. It’d be like trying to drive 100 mph in Midtown Manhattan: You’re going to crash into something.
Then maybe Freepers wont mind my bicycle so much, if one of these is attached to my bicycle.
First generation technology is always clumsy and compared with its potential.
If I read it right, the EM drive could continuously propel a vehicle forward. Okay, build up speed with a drive that provides constant acceleration. So. What about slowing down? They still have to do with mass and velocity and what it is going to take to not splatter on the moon.
I’d suggest the flight drive curve would look like a narrow bell curve with the second half “propelling in the reverse direction”. Hardly a ‘warp’ drive.
Spindizzy?
I’m too lazy to read the article . . .
The Admiral
FIRST, that is sick!! is that true? well, why would you lie lol. Crazy speeds.
Some suggest the EmDrive is set to become one of many wonderful British inventions which — for lack of investment and vision — end up being hijacked by someone else.///
The tank and computers? Well, that’s what happens when you become a socialist utopia. There is never and may never be a country as innovative and adaptable as the United States. It’s amazing what being a republic and having capitalism can do to a nation.
No. You’re right, It is according to an article I read last week, 10% C. That’s alpha centuri in 40 years.
But WOW! If it is real
Zephram Cochran sez “I’ll drink to that!”
You can use it for artificial gravity. 1 g to halfway. Turn around and 1 g till you land. You can up it to 2 Gs if your in a hurry and strapped in
Spin dizzy?
James Blish?
Oobie doobie
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