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Can the EmDrive actually work for space travel?
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| 11 November 2020
| Paul Sutter
Posted on 11/11/2020 11:09:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:09:18 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Then you would move basically at the speed of light.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:12:05 AM PST
by
nikos1121
To: BenLurkin
Personally, I think the Infinite Improbability Drive is more interesting.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:14:19 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: All
Ever since the introduction of the EmDrive concept in 2001, every few years a group claims to have measured a net force coming from its device. But these researchers are measuring an incredibly tiny effect: a force so small it couldn't even budge a piece of paper. This leads to significant statistical uncertainty and measurement error.
Maybe the floor isn't level.
To: cuban leaf
If you like that, then Bistromathic Drive is even more fascinating.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:20:15 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: nikos1121
A rocket in vacuum doesn’t “push” off of anything. The directed expansion of gases causes the system to expand linearly in both directions. The rocket goes one direction and the gases o the opposite direction. In days of old when there was no concept of vacuum and it was supposed that space beyond the atmosphere was filled with a substance termed ether then it was believed that push was the operating force.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:21:48 AM PST
by
arthurus
(covfefe h)
To: Olog-hai
If you like that, then Bistromathic Drive is even more fascinating.
COVID has set the research back as many restaurants have had to close or only offer curbside service.
To: BenLurkin
I think these folks are moving in the wrong direction. Space travel would best be done by harnessing the power of unicorns.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:26:40 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: mmichaels1970
Good thing Slartibartfast doesn’t have to worry about that.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:27:28 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: nikos1121
The Em Drive will work if and when it is understood and demonstrated how it maintains conservation of energy. Changing the laws of nature may not be necessary, just understanding how something works pursuant to those laws of nature. I don’t count on this thing actually working. The reasoning for it sounds like the reasoning of yore that showed scientists how to build perpetual motion machines or that posited ether.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:29:51 AM PST
by
arthurus
(covfefe H)
To: BenLurkin
From the article:
So that's what we have, nearly 20 years after the initial EmDrive proposal: a bunch of experiments that haven't really delivered, and no explanation (besides "let's just go ahead and break all of physics, violating every other experiment of the past 100 years") of how they could work. So why is this even being considered or discussed?
To: BenLurkin
Thrust? Vehicles? Really?
It’s SPACE-TIME manipulation that will get in touch with green, three-breasted babes.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:37:16 AM PST
by
polymuser
(A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
To: cuban leaf
I knew you had a Heart of Gold
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:41:57 AM PST
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: polymuser
” green, three-breasted babes.”
sweeeet!
Ole’ J.Tiberius ain’t got nothin’ on us now!!!
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:42:53 AM PST
by
Macoozie
(Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
To: Olog-hai
If you like that, then Bistromathic Drive is even more fascinating. If you have AOC doing the sums, you can go to Hell at light speed, and when you get there, you'll discover someone stole your tips...
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:44:56 AM PST
by
null and void
(A republic ... if you can keep it.)
To: BenLurkin
There's no reason not to investigate this phenomenon. Far more vast quantities of public cash have been squandered on far more dodgy ideas. Take Dark Matter/Energy for instance. Billions and billions have been thrown away. and.... nothing.
I lost most of my respect for the science community when I started looking into the state of the theory, results and the vast quantities of cash thrown at these people for little return. Much of it is smoke and mirrors. But they've learned that if you use fancy terminology you can bamboozle politicians (who are for the most part morons) into throwing money around.
This is why they hate Trump. He can detect BS miles away.
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:50:00 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: BenLurkin
So you see? Like clean renewable energy is TOOOOEDALLY a REALITY and stuff!!! hmm hmm
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:50:18 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
To: norcal joe
So why is this even being considered or discussed? You prefer a living in ignorance of a refined model that enables new technologies?
Where do you want to live?
Before germ theory replaced evil spirits as the cause of disease?
Back in the day when phlogiston was the cat's meow for explaining fire? No oxygen for you!
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:54:08 AM PST
by
null and void
(A republic ... if you can keep it.)
To: Don W
But I’m checking my restaurant receipts!
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posted on
11/11/2020 11:54:22 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: nikos1121
Not really because the EM Drive generates only a small force.
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