[The_Media_never_lie]

Just move on to the EnDrive.

[Steely Tom]

Executive summary: NASA determined that the “thrust” produced by the Em Drive resulted from the interaction of the drive current with Earth’s magnetic field. Too bad, it would have been lovely if it had proved out, although it would surely have caused some difficulties for physics.

[Telepathic Intruder]

It violates the conservation of momentum law, among others. Physical laws have a way of enforcing themselves.

[blueunicorn6]

Sometimes, when I make popcorn in the microwave oven, the house travels to another galaxy.

[JZelle]

They should’ve tried defragging it first.

[SunkenCiv]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3947995/posts

[salmon76]

In other news, economists have determined socialism doesn’t work either.

[freedumb2003]

But I just installed one and moved all my porn to it!

Of course I mapped it to M: so my Em drive is my M drive.

[SaxxonWoods]

It was self-defense!

[Candor7]

The Vimanas of ancient India operated on laghima force
and mercury vortex engines.

If they researched this EM drive why are they not researching the vimanas?

Apparently space ship designs described in sanskrit were recently found in Tibet.

https://www.ancient-code.com/powered-vimana-6000-year-old-flying-machines-ancient-india/

[antidemoncrat]

“The EmDrive, copyrighted by its parent company SPR Ltd, theoretically works by trapping microwaves in a shaped chamber where their bouncing produces thrust.”

If I remember my microwave theory correctly, in order to have microwave energy collimated you would have to supply some kind of external energy to do that else why would they not just “bounce” in random directions and produce no thrust?. Also, where does the microwave trapped in that chamber come from? Please elucidate.

[BitWielder1]

Just as well. I'd hate to have my interstellar trip canceled just because nobody could figure out how it could possibly work.

[Political Junkie Too]

It's the "Aunty Em" drive.

Just click your heels three times and say "There's no place like Mars... There's no place like Mars..."

-PJ

[higgmeister]

Haven't you seen huge microwave feedhorns and parabolic dishes flying off of the tops of large buildings all over the country?   No, well then, never mind.

[moovova]

I think they were barking up the wrong tree...

[Kommodor]

That’s okay, I prefer the infinite improbability drive anyway.

[The Duke]

When I was in college in the mid 70's, one of the engineering students brought a "perpetual motion" device into class. It consisted of an inverted cup that was slightly concave at the top, along with a tiny top that you would set spinning on the top of the inverted cup.

He started the top spinning, and i.t continued to spin there until the end of the semester (we left it, untouched, in the room throughout the semester)

On the last day of the semester he revealed an ingenious little battery and coil that would only energize when the top approached the center of the concave surface. The top itself also had internal wires that would use the magnetic field to increase the spin.

Pretty neat little party trick, and a perfect fit for first year engineering students taking physics.

[upchuck]

RATS!! I was planning to install one EmDrive in my computer and another in my truck.