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To: Dead Corpse

Well enough. It’s a sneezy time of year.


144 posted on 03/02/2017 10:29:09 AM PST by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: NicknamedBob; Darksheare; everyone
Cleanest DIY EM drive run to date

Monomorphic just ran it this morning. He's been working to clean up anomalous signal noise and has isolated damn near everything including circuitry inside a LiPO battery pack he was using.

For those not following this, this is a propellentless motor. It produces thrust from a microwave signal in an enclosed "frustum", or truncated cone.

Physics is still scratching it's head over how this works, but everyone is in agreement that if it works in a vacuum, it is a HUGE game changer.

This 1W blip on the trace jpg he took represents enough power to lift a single sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Seems negligible, but popular ion thrusters are a fraction of that and help satellites keep station in orbit. Power one of these EM drives at 1KW and you are producing some serious and continuous thrust.

Ie; Mars orbital insertion in DAYS instead of MONTHS.

Oh yeah... And possibly flying cars. Or... Castles? :-)

145 posted on 03/02/2017 10:39:01 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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