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China Trumps NASA With Working "StarTrek" EM Propulsion Drive --"Testing Now...
The Daily Galaxy ^
| December 20, 2016
Posted on 12/25/2016 8:46:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Scientists with the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) claim NASAs results re-confirm what theyd already achieved, and have plans to implement it in satellites as quickly as possible. China claims theyve created a working prototype of the impossible reactionless engine and they say theyre already testing it in orbit aboard the Tiangong-2 space laboratory. The radical, fuel-free EmDrive recently stirred up controversy after a paper published by a team of NASA researchers appeared to show theyd successfully built the technology.
The implications for this could be huge. For instance, current satellites could be half the size they are today without the need to carry fuel.
At a press conference in Beijing, researchers with CAST confirmed the government has been funding research into the technology since 2010, and claimed theyve developed a device thats already being tested in low-Earth orbit, IBTimes UK reports. It comes just a month after anonymous sources told IBTimes UK that tests on the EmDrive were underway aboard Tiangong-2 shown below....
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TOPICS: Government; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: china; energy; space; spacetravel
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FULL TITLE: China Trumps NASA With Working "StarTrek" EM Propulsion Drive --"Testing Now Aboard the Tiangong-2 Space Laboratory"
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Where are they getting the dilithium crystals?
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posted on
12/25/2016 8:52:04 PM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’ll believe it when I see it for myself. You cannae break the laws of physics.
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posted on
12/25/2016 8:52:33 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Telepathic Intruder
My favorite line from ALL of the TV Series and Movies.
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posted on
12/25/2016 8:54:38 PM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
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posted on
12/25/2016 8:54:40 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Not quite. Others say NASA says this, but who are these others?
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posted on
12/25/2016 8:55:51 PM PST
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: left that other site
They use a borillium sphere.
To: left that other site
The dilithium crystals are for the warp drive. This is referring to the “impulse engines” that are the sub-light drive.
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12/25/2016 8:56:34 PM PST
by
SubMareener
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To: Telepathic Intruder
It’s not fuel free. It uses photons to provide propulsion force, which means the fuel is whatever energy source is used to make the photons. No laws of physics were harmed in the making of these photons...
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12/25/2016 8:59:08 PM PST
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Go_Raiders
(Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
To: left that other site
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posted on
12/25/2016 8:59:08 PM PST
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Telepathic Intruder
It is impossible to break the laws of science. However. It is possible make use of laws that we are unaware of or to supercede lower level science laws through using higher level laws.
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posted on
12/25/2016 8:59:21 PM PST
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Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Go_Raiders
The physical law that’s being referred to is the conservation of momentum law. “For every action there is an equal an opposite reaction”. The “EM drive” supposedly involves no reaction.
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12/25/2016 9:00:21 PM PST
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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12/25/2016 9:01:02 PM PST
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Tamatoa
(Fight for our America, Fight for our Country I fought to defend!!!)
To: Jonty30
wait china has a spacestation now?
To: Jonty30; Telepathic Intruder
I think he knew you were going to say that...
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posted on
12/25/2016 9:02:01 PM PST
by
null and void
( If you defy federal law, we deny federal funds.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m seeing more and more encouraging news about the EM drive. It seems to have passed the giggle factor stage, and is now being tested by some of the world’s top labs and researchers.
What’s really intriguing, is that they’re getting results. We could be looking at one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last hundred years.
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posted on
12/25/2016 9:02:55 PM PST
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Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: Go_Raiders
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Newton's third law of motion.
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12/25/2016 9:04:15 PM PST
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Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: orionrising
😒
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12/25/2016 9:06:25 PM PST
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Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It isn’t “fuel free”, it is reaction mass free. Which is what fuel becomes after it is burned.
To: Go_Raiders
You appear to be framing this as a Newton’s third law sort of engine, which it is NOT. It is reactionless and everyone involved agrees it appears to violate physics, as currently understood.
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12/25/2016 9:09:15 PM PST
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steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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