[mhx]

Impossible.

But I hope they invest a lot in this promising technology.

[CE2949BB]

It's about the EmDrive.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Very interesting. If true, a spaceship would not have to accelerate and decelerate the fuel on board, which is basically dead weight until it is used for propulsion.

[xp38]

"Light speed? Too slow. We're gonna have to go to Ludicrous speed!" ―Dark Helmet

[dead]

The really good news is that they’re going to sell them for twenty-nine cents apiece.

[Vaquero]

its named the Hwang Ho and an idiot can fly it except it has to be a Chinese idiot as the operators manual is in Chinese

Kilgore Trout

‘Venus on the Half Shell’

[bigbob]

Meh, I’m holding out for the Libby-Sheffield Para-Drive...

[r9etb]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/09/chinese-buildin.html

[r9etb]

"It is well known that Roger Shawyer's 'electromagnetic relativity drive' violates the law of conservation of momentum, making it simply the latest in a long line of 'perpetuum mobiles' that have been proposed and disproved for centuries," wrote John Costella, an Australian physicist. "His analysis is rubbish and his 'drive' impossible."

You know ... I want Shawyer's theory to be right, just to see Mr. Costella have to eat his words.

[Petronski]

That can only mean one thing: they’ve discovered a plentiful supply of inobtanium!

[Kevmo]

Sounds like they’ve been doing their homework on electrogravitics.

[SunkenCiv]

NCC 1701 ping. Cue the Jerry Goldsmith.

[LibWhacker]

So am I. No luck yet.

[KevinDavis]

Does anybody know where I could get a good Browncoat???

[ckilmer]

from the article.................

What will China do with the technology? It may be relevant that professor Yang is not unknown in military circles, having published a paper called “Plasma Attack Against Low-Orbit Spy Satellites.”

Meanwhile, what about the American interest? Shawyer told me that “the flight thruster program is on hold for the present. [O]nce the U.K. government had provided an export license for a U.S. military application, the major U.S. aerospace company we had been dealing with stopped talking to us. “

The company may have decided that the Emdrive could not work. If they’re wrong, China has at least a year’s head start in a technology that will dominate space and make previous satellites as obsolete as sailing ships in the age of steam.

[Dajjal]

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